N Work. Here, Lord, is Thy servant!" Mr. Mueller wrote down eight
reasons against and eight reasons for establishing another
Orphan-House for Seven Hundred Orphans.
The following
is his last reason
for so doing: "I am peaceful and happy, spiritually, in the prospect
of enlarging the work as on former occasions when I had to do so. This
weighs particularly with me as a reason for going forward. After all
the calm, quiet, prayerful consideration of the subject for about
eight weeks, I am peaceful and happy, spiritually, in the
purpose of enlarging
the field. This, after all the heart searching which I have had, and
the daily prayer to be kept from delusion and mistake in this thing,
and the betaking myself to the Word of God, would not be the
case, I judge, had not the Lord purposed to condescend to use me more
than ever in this service. "I, therefore, on the ground
of the objections answered, and these eight reasons FOR enlarging the
work, come to the conclusion that it is
the will of the blessed God, that His poor and most unworthy servant
should yet more extensively serve Him in this work, which he is quite
willing to do." "May 24