Prayer and Faith by L. G. MOOKERJEE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1915

Prayer and Faith

By L. G. MOOKERJEE

George Mueller

L. G. MOOKERJEE

In a study of the lives of missionary heroes of the last few centuries, comparing their peculiar characteristics which made them such illustrious examples, I find none to exceed George Mueller, of Bristol, in regard to prayer and faith. Prayer was “his native breath.”

Answers to His Prayers

A study of his life shows that the total amount received for his missionary work in answer to prayer was £1,611,559 8s. 10¾d. Every penny of this he received without asking any one but God. For his personal expenses he received during his life over £93,000; and as a servant of the Lord Jesus, who, constrained by the love of Christ, sought to lay up treasure in heaven, he gave away from that sum £81,490 18s. 8d. for the work of God.

His Missionary Activities

For seventy years George Mueller served in the cause of God. He founded and directed five large orphan houses in Bristol, England, took care of more than 10,000 orphans, circulated 500,000 copies of Bibles and portions, and distributed £47,188 worth of tracts.

His Foreign Mission Tours

He started his preaching tours in 1875, when he was seventy years of age, and undertook seventeen tours, lasting seventeen years, thus completing his tours in his eighty-seventh year. During these seventeen years he preached in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Canada, United States, France, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia, Poland, India, Australia, China, Japan, The Straits Settlements, Tasmania, New Zealand, Ceylon, traveling about two hundred thousand miles by land and sea in the Lord’s service.

His Maxims

“Prayer and faith will do what no power on earth can accomplish.”

“Universal remedy in difficulties is prayer, faith, and patience.”

“Never despair; more faith, more prayer, and more patience will bring the blessing.”

“Pray hard, believe hard, wrestle hard, and never be discouraged.”

Summary

It has appealed to me that George Mueller shines brightly in the list of the heroes of faith of the last few centuries. As the reading of his life has strengthened my faith in God and his promises, I pass on this personal testimony for the benefit of the readers of the REVIEW. To quote Dr. A. T. Pierson: “The work he did for three quarters of a century, and the monument he built in Ashleydown, to witness to a living, present, prayer-hearing God, more enduring than marble, iron, or bronze, still testifies for the Lord, and, like the lighthouse of Pharos, sends out rays to pierce the gloom and darkness, to guide the perplexed mariners who have lost their bearings, and perhaps prevent shipwreck of faith.”

Simla, India.