Mr. Müller’s Ninetieth Birthday

IN the occasion of his goth birthday, Mr.
Müller, when speaking at Bethesda, thus
referred to his many travels and to his
Christian experience, the account of which was given
in the Bristol Daily Press:

“He had travelled 200,000 miles by land and sea with his departed wife; had preached in 42 countries in Europe, America, Africa, Asia, and the six Australian Colonies. Although formerly he used to suffer much from sea-sickness, he placed himself at God’s disposal, and in all his journeys by sea had never suffered from sickness during these tours. He had crossed the Atlantic seven times, had been over the Red Sea five times, 16 times had been over the Mediterranean. He had crossed the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and never once had he been in the least sick. See how good it was to be an obedient servant of Christ. His mental powers were as clear as when he passed his examinations, and wrote essays in Latin, French, German, and had to pass examinations in Hebrew and Greek, mathemiatics, history, and the like. These examinations were 70 years and 6 months ago. How they should admire the Lord’s kindness. Godliness was profitable even in that life. He knew no way to begin, and no way to end, in speaking of the benefits the Lord had conferred on him. He had helped him in writing books, which God had blessed, and in the 42 countries wherever he went he met those who had known him a long time from his writings, and who were delighted to meet him face to face. See how God could use a miserable worm, which was only a wreck when brought to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who was that evening at the commencement of his gist year. For 69 years and 10 months he had been a happy man — a very happy man. That he attributed to two things. He had maintained a good conscience, not wilfully going on in a course he knew to be contrary to the mind of God; he did not mean, of course, he was perfect; he was poor, weak, and sinful. Secondly, he attributed it to his love for the Holy Scripture. Of late years, his practice had been four times every year to read through the Scriptures, with application to his own heart, and with meditation, and at that day he was a greater lover of the Word of God than he was 66 yearsago. The more it was treated with carelessness

and indifference, and the more it was reasoned away,

the more he stuck close to it. It was this, and maintaining a good conscience, that had given him all those scores of years’ peace and joy in the Holy

Ghost.”