The lessons which the Lord wishes each one to take from it, is this:  “Be your faith little or weak, never give it up; apply my promises to all your needs, and expect their fulfillment.  Little things are as sacred as great things.”

In the journal kept by Mr. Muller during his many years of experience, he has preserved many incidents of answer to prayer in small matters, of which we quote the following from his book. “The Power of Faith and Prayer.”

1.  “One of the orphan boys needed to be apprenticed.  I knew of no suitable believing master who would take an indoor apprentice.  I gave myself to prayer, and brought the matter daily before the Lord.  At last, though I had to pray about the matter from May 21 to September, the Lord granted my request, and I found a suitable place for him.

2.  I asked the Lord that he would be pleased to deliver a certain sister in the Lord from the great spiritual depression under which she was suffering, and after three days the Lord granted my request.

3.  I asked the Lord daily in his mercy to keep a sister in the Lord from insanity, who was then apparently on the border of it.  I have now to record his praise, after nearly four years have passed away, that the Lord has kept her from it.

4.  During this year has occurred the conversion of one of the greatest sinners that I had ever heard of in all my service for the Lord.  Repeatedly I fell on my knees with his wife, and asked the Lord for his conversion, when she came to me in the deepest distress of soul, on account of the most barbarous and cruel treatment that she had received from him in his bitter enmity against her for the Lord’s sake.  And now the awful persecutor is converted.

5.  It pleased the Lord to try my faith in a way in which before, it had not been tried.  My beloved daughter was taken ill on June 20.  This illness, at first a low fever, turned to typhus, and July 3 there seemed no hope of her recovery.

Now was the trial of faith, but faith triumphed.  My wife and I were enabled to give her up into the hands of the Lord.  He sustained us both exceedingly.

She continued very ill till about July 20, when restoration began.  On August 18, she was so far restored that she could be removed to Clevedon for change of air.  It was then 59 days since she was taken ill.

6.  The heating apparatus of our Orphan Home unexpectedly gave out.  It was the commencement of Winter.  To repair the leak was a questionable matter.  To put in a new boiler would in all probability take many weeks.  Workmen were sent for to make repairs.  But on the day fixed for repairs a bleak north wind set in.”

Now came cold weather, the fire must be put out, the repairs could not be put off.  Gladly would I have paid one hundred pounds if thereby the difficulty could have been overcome, and the children not be exposed to suffer for many days from living in cold rooms.