For many centimes there has not been a more remarkable testimony of unfaltering trust in the faithfulness of God in supplying human wants, than is found in the life and labor of George Muller and his Orphan Home, in Bristol, England.  His record is one of humility, yet one of daily dependence upon the providence and the knowledge of God to supply his daily wants.  It has been one of extraordinary trial; yet never, for a single hour, has God forsaken him.  Beginning, in 1834, with absolutely nothing; giving himself, his earthly all and his family to the Lord, and asking the Lord’s pleasure and blessing upon his work of philanthropy, he has never, for once, appealed to any individual for aid, for assistance, for loans; but has relied wholly in prayer to the Lord—­coming with each day’s cares and necessities—­and the Lord has ever supplied.  He has never borrowed, never been in debt; living only upon what the Lord has sent—­yet in the forty-third year of his life of faith and trust—­he has been able, through the voluntary contributions which the Lord has prompted the hearts of the people to give, to accomplish these wonderful results:  Over half a million dollars have been spent in the construction of buildings—­over fifteen thousand orphans have been cared for and supported—­and over one million dollars have been received for their support. Every dollar of which has been asked for in believing prayer from the Lord.  The record is the most astounding in the faith of the Christian religion, and the power and providence of God to answer prayer, that modern times can show.

The orphans’ homes have been visited again and again by Christian clergymen of all denominations, to feel the positive satisfaction and certainty that all this were indeed the work of prayer, and they have been abundantly convinced.

The spectacle is indeed a standing miracle.  “A man sheltering, feeding, clothing, educating, and mailing comfortable and happy, hundreds of poor orphan children, with no funds of his own, and no possible means of sustenance, save that which God sent him in answer to prayer.”

An eminent clergyman who for five years had been constantly hearing of this work of faith, and could hardly believe in its possibility, at last visited Mr. Muller’s home for the purpose of thorough investigation, exposing it, if it were under false pretenses or mistaken ways of securing public sympathy, or else with utmost critical search, desired to become convinced it was indeed supported only by true prayer.  He had reserved for himself, as he says, a wide margin for deductions and disappointment, but after his search, as “I left Bristol, I exclaimed with the queen of Sheba, ‘The half had not been told me.’  Here I saw, indeed, seven hundred orphan children fed and provided for, by the hand of God, in answer to prayer, as literally and truly as Elijah was fed by ravens with meat which the Lord provided.”