Three preliminary comments before we get into Mueller's life.

One, this manuscript from which I'll be working will, God willing, be online for you to download Monday and so you don't need to

scramble to write down juicy quotes or anything like that from Mueller because

it'll all be there for you to have along with its 80

footnotes so that you can actually go to the books and when you quote things

prove that I didn't make it up. That's number one.

Number two, as I was reflecting having heard now three messages already in this conference why God might have

appointed for us to put Mueller here a year so ago when we thought about it is this.

Mueller not only will be an embodiment of what you have heard in the three messages,

but he will also be an embodiment with a certain flavor that I don't think is typical of the way money is often talked about or the way Calvinism is often portrayed and I'll save that for you

but I think Mueller is unusual and not for the reason many people think he is.

And the third comment is on sources. I think we have lots of these in the bookstore and these are the two books to which

I would send you. I'm aware of no authoritative scholarly biography on George Mueller that attempts to put him in his religious and social and cultural milieu with serious attention in detail to his own writings with careful

documentation. I'm not aware of anything like that exists. Therefore, if you want to do serious study of what he really thought,

there aren't any biographies that will do it. This may be the closest one that's in print. This is George

Mueller of Bristol, A.T. Pearson, and we have those and I profited from this. I think

Pearson gets him right as far as his character goes, but neither this nor any biography I'm aware of understands or is willing to share his theology.

Therefore, go to this one.

This is a condensation of much of what he wrote,

and it's called his biography, I mean his autobiography. It's just newly reprinted. I wrote a little blurb on the back and so if I were

to choose to have one book in my library dealing with Mueller, this is the one I would get.

So I'll put that there and I hope you'll deplete all those books

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