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ASHLEY DOWN ORPHAN HOUSES, BRISTO
ASHLEY DOWN ORPHAN HOUSES, BRISTO
THE
LIFE OF TRUST:
BEING A
NARRATIVE OF THE LORD’S DEALINGS
WITH
GEORGE MÜLLER,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
EDITED AND CONDENSED BY
REV. H. LINCOLN WAYLAND,
PASTOR OF THE THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH, WORCESTER, MASS.
With an Introduction
BY
FRANCIS WAYLAND.
BOSTON:
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
59 WASHINGTON STREET.
NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY.
CINCINNATI: GEORGE S. BLANCHARD.
1861.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
GEO. C. RAND AND AVERY, 3 CORNHILL.
EDITOR’S PREFACE.
Having been requested by Messrs. Gould and Lincoln to examine the work entitled “A Narrative of some of the
Lord’s Dealings with George Müller,” the Editor was convinced that its republication in this country would greatly promote the piety of American Christians. But to reproduce the work in its original form was attended with difficulty. The “Narrative,” in four parts, (published respectively in 1837, 1841, 1845, and 1856,) and the four
“Annual Reports” issued in 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860, would occupy not less than eighteen hundred pages of the size of those contained in this volume. The cost of such a work would greatly limit its circulation and its usefulness, if indeed any publisher should undertake its issue. There seemed no alternative except to abandon the idea of an American edition altogether, or to present it to the public in a condensed form.
Such a condensation seemed, on examination, to be entirely practicable. Owing to the “Parts” of the “Narrative” having been published at four separate periods, it often happens that the same matter is several times repeated. A
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