{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_34377/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_34377","id":"gutenberg_34377","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34377","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Biographies","Category: History - British","Category: Religion/Spirituality","M\u00fcller, George, 1805-1898"],"text":"Produced by the Bookworm, Sharon Verougstraete and the\nOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net\n(This book was produced from scanned images of public\ndomain material from the Google Print project.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n  PREACHING TOURS\n  AND\n  Missionary Labours\n  OF\n  GEORGE MUeLLER\n  (OF BRISTOL.)\n\n  BY\n\n  MRS. MUeLLER.\n\n  1883.\n\n  LONDON: J. NISBET & CO., BERNERS STREET.\n\n  TO BE HAD ALSO IN BRISTOL, AT THE BIBLE AND TRACT WAREHOUSE\n  OF THE SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTION FOR\n  HOME AND ABROAD, NO. 34, PARK STREET; AND THROUGH\n  ALL BOOKSELLERS.\n\n  DRYDEN PRESS:\n\n  J. DAVY AND SONS, 137, LONG ACRE, LONDON.\n\n  [_All Rights Reserved._]\n\n  ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.\n\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTION.\n\n\nBefore the perusal of this book is entered upon, it seems desirable that\nI should myself state to the reader, what led me to undertake these\nmissionary tours. It may be well to refer also to the objects I had\nparticularly in view in connection with them; to mention how far the\ndesired result has been attained; and to notice a few other points\nrelating to these journeys.\n\nDuring many years the thought occurred to me again and again, that it\nmight be the will of God I should seek to benefit His children and the\nunconverted, not through my publications only, but by ministering\npersonally amongst them in other places besides Bristol; but my position\nas pastor of a large church, and as Director of a great Institution,\nwhich seemed to require my constant presence, for a long time put aside\nthe thought. At last, however, when staying in the Isle of Wight in the\nautumn of 1874, finding that my preaching at Ventnor and Ryde had been\nunusually blessed and valued, I judged, that, having very efficient\nfellow labourers in the Church at Bristol, I could be spared, and that\nmy absence would not be particularly felt. With reference to the work on\nAshley Down, too, as Mr. Wright had for many years been an able helper\nin connection with it; as he had by that time been appointed Co-Director\nof the Institution; and as I had laboured in word and doctrine in\nBristol (almost exclusively) for forty-three years; it was laid upon my\nheart to go from city to city, and from country to country, in order to\nbenefit (if possible) both the Church of Christ and the world at large,\nby my ministry and experience. Accordingly, after much prayer and\nwaiting upon God, I decided upon devoting a very considerable portion of\nmy time habitually to this service, as long as health and strength\nshould be continued to me.\n\nThe objects I have in view in undertaking these tours are the\nfollowing:--\n\n1. To preach the Gospel in the simplest way possible, that persons may\nunderstand how the blessing, which sinners receive through faith in\nChrist, is to be obtained. Many who are really in earnest about their\nsalvation, are nevertheless without peace, because they rest upon their\n_feelings_. They do not see that every one, who is convinced that he is\na lost sinner by nature, and confesses this before God, passes sentence\nupon himself (so to speak), that, if he depends solely on the perfect\nobedience of the Lord Jesus unto death, even the death on the cross and\nupon His substitutional sacrifice, he receives the forgiveness of all\nhis sins, _is_ justified the moment he believes in Jesus and shall not\nperish, but have everlasting life. Rom. v. 1; Acts x. 43; John iii. 16.\n\n2. During my pastoral labours for many years I found, that numbers of\ntrue children of God are without the knowledge of their standing in\nChrist. They do not enter into the fact, that they _have_ passed from\ndeath unto life, that they _are_ regenerated, pardoned, justified,\naccepted in the Beloved, and are no longer under condemnation. Now,\nhaving entered into all this experimentally for more than half a century\nmyself, I desire (with the help of God) to bring others also to an\napprehension of these blessings; and how greatly this service is needed,\nis obvious from the fact, that there are great numbers of preachers of\nthe Gospel and pastors, who, being without the knowledge of their own\npersonal salvation, are, in consequence, entirely destitute of any real\npeace and joy in the Lord.\n\n3. Another object I aim at is, to bring Christians back to the Holy\nScriptures; to urge them to try everything by the word of God, and to\nvalue that _only_, which will stand this test. I endeavour therefore, to\nlead believers to become _lovers_ of the Bible, by exhorting them to a\ndaily, systematic, consecutive reading and study of it; for I know from\nan experience of more than half a century the blessedness of doing this\nmyself, and also, what loss I experienced during the first three years\nafter my conversion, from not attending to it.\n\n4. Further, I aim at a removal of sectarianism, at promoting brotherly\nlove amongst true Christians; and with this object in view go amongst\nall real believers, by whatever name they are called, _provided_ they\nare sound in the foundation truths of our holy faith. Though not\nagreeing at all, with some of their opinions and practices, I\nnevertheless preach amongst all, having seen for many years how greatly\nthe heart of the Lord Jesus must be grieved by the disunion that exists\namong His own true disciples. On this account, therefore, I have sought\n(in my feeble measure) to unite all real believers; but, as this cannot\nbe done, by standing aloof from our brethren in Christ, until they see\neye to eye with us, in every point, I have gone amongst them, and have\nunited with them, in so far as nothing has been required of me which I\ncould not do with a good conscience.\n\n5. As for more than half a century I have seen how very little _real_\ntrust in the Living God there is (generally speaking), even amongst true\nChristians, I have sought also in these my missionary tours,\nparticularly, to strengthen their faith; because, in the course of my\npastoral labours, the blessed results of _real_ confidence in God on the\none hand have come to my knowledge, and the misery of distrusting Him\nalso on the other.\n\n6. Both in my public ministry of the Word, and private intercourse with\nChristians, I seek to lead my fellow disciples to more real separation\nfrom the world and deadness to it, and to promote heavenly mindedness in\nthem, according to the Scriptures. At the same time, however, I warn\nthem against _extravagances_ (such as sinless perfection in the flesh),\nwhich are not to be found in the Word of God.\n\n7. As the Lord enables me, I give instruction also about the true\ncharacter of the present dispensation and the end thereof, and strive to\nlead the Church of Christ to look for His second coming as her great\nhope.\n\nIn these nine long missionary tours, I have gladly embraced every\nopportunity also of having meetings with ministers and pastors of\nChurches, both for the sake of encouraging them in their service, and\nthat I might benefit them through my own experience of fifty-seven years\nin the ministry of the Word. I have availed myself too of every\nopportunity of addressing students in Universities, Theological\nSeminaries, and Colleges, and have had opportunities likewise of\naddressing 1,000 or 1,500 Christian workers at a time, and of seeking to\nbenefit them by my experience. This kind of work I have now been able to\ndo in twenty-two different countries; for after having spent a\nconsiderable time in such labour in England, Scotland, and Ireland, I\nwas led in the providence of God to Switzerland, Germany, Holland,\nFrance, Spain, Italy, Canada, the United States, Egypt, Palestine,\nSyria, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia,\nand Russian Poland.\n\nThe reader may now be desirous of asking--\"And what has been the\n_result_ of all this service?\" My reply is--The day of the Lord alone\nwill reveal it. Here on earth but little can be known, comparatively, of\nthe fruit of our labours; yet, as far as I have been permitted to see,\neven _here_, there is good reason to believe, that I have not been\ndirected to _one single_ place, regarding which there was not manifest\nproof, that the Lord sent me there, on account of the visible blessing\nwhich rested on my labours.\n\nIt may be desirable also to state, why an account of these missionary\ntours has been published in _this form_, as several of these journeys\nhave already been referred to in the Reports of the Scriptural Knowledge\nInstitution. The reason is, that, in the Reports a very brief account\nonly of them has been given, and that always in detached portions. Now,\nas my dear wife has invariably accompanied me in my travels, during the\npast eight years, and has kept a journal regularly of my labours for the\nLord, we judged that a connected and much fuller account of them might\nbe given in a book, than could be published in any other manner. Through\na perusal of this Narrative it is hoped also that Christians may be led\nto give themselves to prayer for blessing on this my past service, and\nthat God may help me in any future labours, to which, in His providence,\nI may yet be called. We considered likewise, that, in this way,\nChristians may be led to give themselves to prayer for the countries, in\nwhich I have been labouring; and, lastly, that, with God's blessing,\nother _aged_ and _experienced_ brethren and pastors may be led to devote\nthe _evening of their life_ to similar service. God has been pleased\nwithin the last thirty-five years to raise up thousands for evangelistic\nwork; but, it is well known, that there are comparatively very few who\nlabour amongst the _churches_, and can bring the experience of a _long\nlife_ in the service of the Lord to bear upon the _assemblies_ of\nChristians whom they visit. If, through the reading of this book, God\nshould be pleased to incline the hearts of aged, experienced, and very\ngodly servants of Christ, to devote their declining years to the\nvisiting of _Churches_, both my dear wife and myself shall consider\nourselves abundantly recompensed for our attempt to serve Him by\npublishing this Narrative. Hundreds of times, both separately and\nunitedly, we have besought our Heavenly Father to bless this labour for\nHim, and we are sure that He will graciously answer our request.\n\nIt now remains only, that I say a few words regarding the photograph,\nwhich is given in this book.\n\nDuring the last thirty years I have been asked many hundreds of times,\nboth verbally and in writing, for my likeness; but my reply has\ninvariably been: \"As I do not wish to direct attention to myself, but\nto my Lord and Master, I must decline to comply with your request.\"\nNotwithstanding this, however, applications for my portrait have been\ncontinued, and are still made more than ever. Twenty years ago I was\noffered L500, if I would allow it to be published; but the offer was\ndeclined for the reasons already given. Since we have been travelling\nabout, in almost every town or city, where I have laboured (with very\nrare exception) this request has been renewed; and very often has been\nmade by _many_ residing in the _same place_. Again and again\nphotographers (brethren in Christ) have called and begged me to let them\ntake my likeness, because so many friends desired to possess it. Whilst\nat St. Petersburg, a Christian gentleman came to see me (who, together\nwith his wife, after a state of long spiritual deadness, had been\nrevived in soul through my ministry), and on taking leave of me, with\nthe probability that we should never meet again on earth, begged\nearnestly for my photograph; but I gave the answer, which has always\nbeen given under such circumstances. As recently as during my last stay\nin London, I received a letter from a photographer, stating that a\nservant of Christ, who was going to publish the photographs of certain\nwell known pastors and teachers, desired particularly to include mine\namongst the rest; but his application succeeded no better than others of\nthe same kind have done. This very day on which I am now writing,\nanother request for my photograph has been made to me by letter, and\nmany hundreds of times have I thus been entreated for my likeness, but\nin vain.\n\nAnd what has been the result of all this? In consequence of my steadfast\nrefusal to be photographed, several _representations_ of me (for\n_likenesses_ they cannot be called, as I never sat for one of them) have\nbeen published, without my knowledge and against my will. A religious\nperiodical, extensively circulated in America, containing one of these\nportraits, has gone all through the United States. An enterprising\nphotographer tried once to secure my likeness too, by an instantaneous\nprocess, as I was driving in an open carriage up a hill, but was foiled\nin the attempt. A portrait of George Mueller also, with a _most doleful_\nexpression of countenance (conveying not the slightest idea of the happy\nman he really _is_), has been going the round, and occasionally has come\nbefore me, even in the houses of my best friends. In the fear of God,\ntherefore, I have come to this conclusion: Since the public _insist_\nupon having a portrait of me (whether I like to give it or whether I do\nnot), let my beloved Christian friends at least have a photograph that\nis a _real_ and not a false representation of their unworthy brother in\nChrist; and especially, let it be one with a pleasant, cheerful\nexpression of countenance, that will glorify and not dishonour the Lord\nI love; for our very _faces_ even should show forth His praise.\n\nAnd now in conclusion, I have one earnest request to make, which is\nthis: that (after yielding to the desire for my likeness so very long\nexpressed, and having had it published) my friends will have the great\nkindness to refrain from applying either to me or to any of my helpers\nat the Orphan Houses for it, under the supposition that the photograph\ncan be obtained in the form of a \"carte-de-visite.\" _As it has not been\npublished separately from this book, it cannot possibly be had in any\nother form than is given here._ One especial reason I had for inserting\nit in the book, and for not allowing it to be published separately, was,\nthat as the amount of work we have at the Orphan Houses is already very\ngreat, I earnestly desire that it may not be increased by our having to\nrespond to continual applications by letter for my photograph, which in\nall probability would be made, if the likeness could be obtained\nseparately. I am sure, however, that nothing further need be said on the\nsubject, as all my dear Christian friends, who really love and esteem\nme, will at once see how reasonable and important my request is.\n\n                                  GEORGE MUeLLER.\n\n    NEW ORPHAN HOUSES,\n    Ashley Down, Bristol.\n    _July, 1883_.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n\n  FIRST TOUR.--England.\n  _From March 26th to July 6th, 1875_                    1\n\n  SECOND TOUR.--England, Scotland, and Ireland.\n  _From August 14th, 1875, to July 5th, 1876_            3\n\n  THIRD TOUR.--Continent of Europe.\n  _From August 16th, 1876, to June 25th, 1877_          11\n\n  FOURTH TOUR.--Canada and the United States.\n  _From August 18th, 1877, to July 8th, 1878_           26\n\n  FIFTH TOUR.--Continent of Europe.\n  _From Sept. 5th, 1878, to June 18th, 1879_            87\n\n  SIXTH TOUR.--United States and Canada.\n  _From August 27th, 1879, to June 17th, 1880_         139\n\n  SEVENTH TOUR.--Canada and the United States.\n  _From Sept. 15th, 1880, to May 31st, 1881_           171\n\n  EIGHTH TOUR.--Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia\n  Minor, Turkey, and Greece.\n  _From August 23rd, 1881, to May 30th, 1882_          179\n\n  NINTH TOUR.--European: Including Germany,\n  Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia, and Russian\n  Poland. _From August 8th, 1882, to June 1st, 1883_   209\n\n\n\n\nFIRST MISSIONARY TOUR.\n\nENGLAND.\n\n_From March 26th to July 6th, 1875._\n\n\nAs the origin of these Missionary Tours has been fully explained in the\nIntroduction to this book, it will be unnecessary to advert to the\ncircumstances which led to them any further. It may therefore now be\nstated, that on March 26th, 1875, Mr. Mueller and myself set off upon our\nfirst missionary journey to a few places in England, and began by\nvisiting Brighton, where he preached several times. He held one meeting\nalso at Lewes; and after he had preached repeatedly again at the\nPresbyterian Church, the Pavilion Dome, etc., at Brighton, we went to\nLondon, where, on the evening of May 6th, he addressed a very large\ncongregation at Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle. On May 8th, we went to\nSunderland, where he preached six times, and on the 25th proceeded to\nNewcastle, at which town he held a meeting at one of the Wesleyan\nChapels, and gave a long address to Christian workers at a Union\nPrayer-Meeting the next day. He preached at Newcastle also on May 26th,\nand on the 27th we returned to Sunderland. There he preached on the\nmorning and evening of May 30th, attended a Union Prayer-Meeting the\nfollowing day, at which he spoke for three quarters of an hour, and gave\na farewell address on June 2nd. On the 3rd we went again to Newcastle,\nat which town he held eighteen meetings--making a total of sixty-two\nsince we left home on March 26th--and thence returned to London, where,\non June 24th and 25th, he spoke at the Conference Hall, Mildmay Park,\nand was one of the speakers who addressed about 3,000 persons on the\nevening of the 27th. On July 1st we went to Notting Hill. There my\nhusband preached at the Talbot Street Tabernacle four times, and on the\nevening of June 5th addressed 1,500 Christian Workers for nearly an hour\nand a half at the \"Edinburgh Castle,\" London--a service which brought\nhis first preaching tour to a close.\n\nOn July 6th we returned to Bristol, where, besides working daily at the\nOrphan Houses, and transacting much business connected with the other\nbranches of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, Mr. Mueller preached,\nas usual, several times; and after remaining at home for five weeks and\nfour days, we set off again upon our missionary travels.\n\n\n\n\nSECOND TOUR.\n\nENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.\n\n_From August 14th, 1875, to July 5th, 1876._\n\n\nOn August 14th, 1875, we went to London on our second tour, of which,\nfor the sake of brevity, it may be desirable to give a very short sketch\nonly.\n\nOn the 15th my husband preached in the afternoon and evening at the\nMildmay Conference Hall, when on the latter occasion he addressed about\n3,000 persons from 1st Peter i. 8; and during the 15 days we were in\nLondon he preached 14 times altogether. Whilst there, he held several\nmeetings also at the Mildmay Conference Hall for the benefit of young\nconverts. Messrs. Moody and Sankey, after their long service in England,\nScotland, and Ireland, had by that time returned to the United States;\nand as these devoted servants of Christ, whose labours were so\nabundantly blessed in the conversion of sinners, were unable to remain\nlong in the places they visited, Mr. Mueller had it especially laid upon\nhis heart to preach in the large cities where they laboured, in order\nthat, through his long experience in the ministry of the Word, he might\nhelp young converts, and instruct them more than (from want of time)\nthese brethren had been able to do.\n\nOn August 30th we went to Stafford, on our way to Windermere and the\nLake District in the north of England, where a few days were spent; and\non Sept. 11th reached Kilmarnock, Scotland, at which town Mr. Mueller\npreached morning and evening on the 12th. At Saltcoats he spoke on the\n16th for an hour and a quarter at a Conference, and preached altogether\nseven times at Kilmarnock in the Churches of that town.\n\nOn Sept. 20th we went to Dundee, where on the 21st he spoke at the\nConference Hall in the morning to about 1,200 people, and in the evening\naddressed 2,000 in the same place. On the 23rd he gave an address at a\npublic breakfast, spoke at the Conference Hall again in the afternoon,\nand held a third meeting in the evening. On Sept. 29th, at St. Peter's,\nwhere McCheyne laboured, he preached from Psalm ciii. 3-5; held a\nmeeting on the 30th at the Free Memorial Church, preached on the evening\nof Oct. 3rd at Kinnaird Hall to about 3,000 hearers, and during the 15\ndays we were at Dundee, spoke 17 times in public altogether. After\nleaving Dundee and visiting Dalkeith, on Oct. 9th we went to Perth,\nwhere Mr. Mueller preached five times, and on the 13th proceeded to\nGlasgow, in which city, at the Convention, he gave two addresses, on the\n14th, on the power of the Spirit, speaking on the first occasion to\nabout 5,000 people, and afterwards (by request) on the same subject to\nan overflow meeting of 1,200.\n\nOn the evening of the 17th, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Glasgow, he\naddressed an assembly of 3,000 from 1st Cor. xv. 1-2, when, at the\ninquirers' meeting which followed this service, it was found that 20\npersons were impressed, and that one individual had found peace in\nChrist. Upon four subsequent occasions he preached at the same Theatre;\nand on the evening of Nov. 3rd addressed a congregation of 1,000 at\nKirkentilloch, including eight or ten ministers who were present. On the\n9th he spoke to 1,600 Sunday School and other Christian teachers at\nGlasgow for an hour and a quarter, preached at Queen's Park Free Church\non the 10th, and on the 14th spoke at the Marble Hall from Ex. xii.\n1-12. On Nov. 17th he held a meeting for young men at Queen's Park Free\nChurch, and on the 18th, at the noon prayer meeting, spoke for the last\ntime at Glasgow. During our visit of 36 days, Mr. Mueller spoke 38 times\nin public altogether, with much help from the Lord, and there is reason\nto believe that great blessing resulted from his ministry.\n\nOur tour through Scotland would have been continued at that time, but\nhaving received an earnest invitation to attend a Convention at Dublin,\nfixed for the end of November, on the afternoon of the 19th we left\nGlasgow for Greenock, and went by steamer to Dublin, where, after a\nfavourable night passage, we arrived on the 20th. On the 21st my husband\nspoke in the morning at Merrion Hall, and preached in the evening at the\nsame place to a congregation of about 2,000.\n\nOn the 23rd he spoke (by request) at the Christian Convention to an\nassembly of 400, consisting of ministers only, on \"What is holiness, and\nhow is it attained?\" and in the afternoon addressed 2,000 persons at the\nsame place on \"Faith which worketh by love.\" On Nov. 25th he spoke again\nat the Convention, gave an address at the noon prayer meeting also on\nthe 26th, and immediately after closing it, gave it over again (by\nparticular request) to an overflow meeting assembled at the United\nPresbyterian Church close by. On Dec. 3rd he preached at the\nMetropolitan Hall; and at the Exhibition Palace, on the afternoon of\nSunday, the 5th, addressed the largest congregation he had in\nDublin--2,500 persons, at least, being present. During the 20 days we\nwere there, he spoke in public 21 times altogether.\n\nNot being able conveniently to remain longer in Ireland, in consequence\nof having accepted invitations for other places, on Dec. 10th we left\nDublin, and went, _via_ Kingstown and Holyhead, to Leamington,\nWarwickshire, where Mr. Mueller preached many times to crowds of hearers\nat the Public Hall, the Wesleyan Church, the Albert Hall, the\nCongregational Church, and at other places. He preached once at Warwick\nalso, once at Kenilworth, twice at Coventry, once at Rugby, on Jan.\n4th, 1876, and gave a farewell address at the Public Hall Leamington,\nfrom Ephes. vi. 10-18, the next evening. During our stay at Leamington\nof 27 days, including the services just mentioned, and expositions of\nthe Scriptures to visitors at the Arboretum, a large Hydropathic\nEstablishment in the town, he held 46 meetings altogether.\n\nOn Jan. 7th we went to Liverpool, as he had been requested to preach for\na time at the great Victoria Hall there, erected for Messrs. Moody and\nSankey. On the 8th he gave an address at the opening of a small\nInstitution, spoke at the Albion Hall on Sunday, the 9th, and on the\nevening of that day preached from Psalm xxiii., at the great Victoria\nHall, to between 6,000 and 7,000 hearers. During our stay at Liverpool\nhe spoke many times at the Victoria Hall, on Sundays, at the daily noon\nprayer meetings, and at 7 o'clock every evening to very large audiences,\nuntil Jan. 18th, when we went to the Conference at York, where he gave\naddresses upon different subjects at three meetings, each of which\nlasted about three-quarters of an hour. On Jan. 22nd we returned to\nLiverpool, where he continued to hold services at the Albion and\nVictoria Halls; on Feb. 6th he preached at Toxteth Tabernacle, and\ncontinued to speak in public until the 14th. During the 35 days we were\nat Liverpool, and the 3 in York, he spoke at 48 meetings altogether.\nWhilst engaged in these services he was greatly helped by the Lord, and\nbelievers and young converts thanked him repeatedly for the blessing his\nministry had been to them. At the Victoria Hall one of the orphans,\nformerly under his care--the commander of a merchant vessel--was\nconverted the _very first evening_ through his preaching.\n\nOn Feb. 15th we went to Kendal, where, on the 16th, he addressed about\n800 people at the Friends' Meeting House, and held three other meetings\nin the town, including two at the Sand Area Chapel. On Feb. 21st we left\nfor Carlisle, and here, on the evening of the 22nd, Mr. Mueller addressed\n400 men and women, the work people of Messrs. Cann. The next day we\nstarted for Annan, Scotland, a little town of 3,000 inhabitants, at\nwhich place, on the 23rd, he preached at the United Presbyterian Church\nto about 600 hearers. On Feb. 24th we went on to Edinburgh, where the\nGeneral Assembly Hall of the Free Church was at once kindly placed at\nhis disposal, that he might hold as many meetings in it as he pleased.\nIn this beautiful Hall every Sunday evening, and at the Noon meetings,\nhe addressed very large congregations during the six weeks that we\nremained in Edinburgh. Besides these services, he preached at St.\nGeorge's Free Church, at North Leith Free Church three times, at Dr.\nChalmers's Memorial Church, at Bristol Street Baptist Church, Barclay\nFree Church, etc., and held 53 meetings altogether. On April 6th we went\nto Arbroath, at which place, and at Montrose, he preached eight times;\nand at Aberdeen, where we arrived on April 16th, in 21 days he preached\n31 times. In Edinburgh and at Aberdeen he had also two meetings, at\nwhich he addressed a number of ministers for upwards of an hour; and at\nthe Free Church College, Edinburgh, spoke to the Theological Students\nfor about the same time.\n\nOn May 10th he held a meeting at the Free Church, Ballater; on the 12th\npreached at Crathie Free Church, near Balmoral Castle; and after he had\nheld three other services at Crathie, we went by stage coach to Braemar,\nwhere he preached once at the National, and once at the Free Church. On\nour return to Crathie, two more meetings were also held there. Whilst at\nthis village, we became acquainted with a Christian housekeeper living\nat Balmoral Castle, who kindly conducted us one afternoon through the\nQueen's residence in Scotland; and, a short time before we left Crathie,\nHer Majesty arrived at the Castle, whom we saw driving out occasionally,\naccompanied by the Princess Beatrice.\n\nAfter our departure from Crathie we went to Inverness, where Mr. Mueller\npreached many times, and remained there until May 31st, when we set off\nfor Wick, about 15 miles from John O'Groat's House, in the extreme North\nof Scotland. During our short stay at Wick, on the morning of June 1st\nwe took a drive to Canisbury, the parish in which John O'Groat's House\nis situated, and walked upon the sea-shore, from which the Orkney\nIslands can be seen. At 2 in the afternoon Mr. Mueller preached at\nCanisbury Free Church, where the country people flocked in great numbers\nfrom their little farms and cottages, three, four, and five miles off to\nhear him; and after the service, at 4 o'clock we returned to Wick, where\nhe held a meeting in the evening.\n\nOn June 3rd we went back to Inverness, and here he resumed his labours\nuntil the 8th, when, in consequence of the death of an aged lady\nresiding at Reading, Berkshire, who had made him her executor, we were\nobliged rather suddenly to leave; but during our two visits to this\ntown, including the services at Wick and Canisbury, he preached 24 times\naltogether.\n\nFrom Inverness we went--_via_ Edinburgh and London, to Reading, where he\npreached 13 times, and thence proceeded to London. There, during the 10\ndays we remained, he spoke ten times in public. These services brought\nhis second preaching tour to a close, and, on July 5th, we returned to\nBristol.\n\n\n\n\nTHIRD TOUR.\n\nCONTINENT OF EUROPE.[A]\n\n_From August 16th, 1876, to June 25th, 1877._\n\n[A] In the following Narrative, passages which describe cities and\nplaces in Europe and America (_marked as being quotations by inverted\ncommas_) have been taken either from \"Appleton's Handbook of American\nTravel,\" from \"Bradshaw's Continental Guide,\" or from one of \"Murray's\nEuropean Handbooks.\"\n\nAfter being occupied daily for a few weeks at the Orphan Houses on\nAshley Down, and attending to business connected with the other branches\nof the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, besides ministering regularly\nat the three chapels in Bristol with which he is connected, as Mr.\nMueller had it particularly laid upon his heart to visit Switzerland and\nGermany, that he might labour in the gospel in those countries, on Aug.\n16th, 1876, we went to Dover, crossed over to Calais the next morning,\nand proceeding to Boulogne, where we stayed one night, continued our\njourney afterwards to Paris, where we arrived on the 18th. During our\nstay in Paris he preached five times at the Congregational Chapel, Rue\nRoyale, in English. Before our departure we visited Versailles and\nCharenton-le-Pont, and availed ourselves of every suitable opportunity\nupon these occasions of giving away little gospel books in French to the\nnumerous Roman Catholics we met with. On the 28th we started for Dijon,\nremained there one night, and went on to Neuchatel, Switzerland, on the\n29th. There, during our short visit of one day, we took a drive to\nChaumont, on the Jura, 3845 feet above the level of the sea, whence a\nmagnificent general view of the Alps can be obtained, and reached Berne\non the 31st.\n\nOn Sept. 1st Mr. Mueller preached in _German_--for the first time\nafter 31 years--at the Free Church, where, because the crowd was so\ngreat, notice was given that the next service would be held at the\nFrench Church, a much larger building, in which accordingly a service\nwas conducted on the 2nd. On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 3rd, he addressed a\nmixed assembly of about 1,800, consisting of pastors, young men, Sunday\nSchool teachers, country women in their Swiss costumes, children, etc.,\nat a large Hall called the Festhuette; and in the evening preached for\nthe third time at the French Church, with very great help and power. On\nthe afternoon of the 4th we went to Die Enge, a Hall on the side of a\nsteep hill at Berne, where 150 brethren and sisters in the Lord had been\ninvited by Col. von Bueren to meet us. After walking about for a short\ntime outside the building to gaze at the beauty of the distant Alps,\nlighted up by the glory of the setting sun, whose departing rays shed a\nlovely rose-coloured hue over their snowy summits, and hearing this\nremark: \"Le bon Dieu l'a fait expres pour vous donner plaisir,\" we\npartook of coffee with our friends in the Hall, who heartily welcomed us\nto Switzerland. Mr. Mueller then gave a short address, and afterwards\nallowed the meeting to take a conversational turn, when he answered a\nnumber of important questions that were put to him. Whilst at Berne he\naddressed the girls and teachers one afternoon at Dr. Bloesch's Orphan\nInstitution, preached every evening until Sunday, the 10th--when he\nspoke at the Festhuette, at 3 p.m., to about 1,900 persons--and preached\na farewell sermon at the French Church to nearly 2,000 in the evening.\nThe Lord helped him wonderfully, many persons appeared to be greatly\nimpressed, and it was a glorious meeting.\n\nHaving before him an immense amount of work, with the prospect of\npreaching evening after evening for several months to large audiences in\nthe close, heated atmosphere of Churches, Halls, etc.; and desiring a\nfew days of entire rest and relaxation before the short days and cold\nweather of winter should set in; we decided at this time upon a little\nexcursion amongst the mountains, and accordingly on Sept. 11th started\nfor Lucerne. At that town, which is in full view of Mont Pilatus, we\npassed one night, and the next morning went by steamer across the lake\nto Vitznau, at the foot of the Rigi. Thence we ascended the\nmountain--which is 5,905 feet above the level of the sea--by cog-wheel\nrailway, and beheld from its summit a view unrivalled for extent and\ngrandeur. The panorama of lake and mountain scenery was magnificent, the\nhorizon presenting a circumference of 300 miles, and including in the\nprospect 13 lakes, the snowy masses of the Bernese Oberland, the grand\nrange of the Jura from Geneva to Basle, and the mountains of the Black\nForest in Germany.\n\nA considerable quantity of snow lay upon the ground in the immediate\nneighbourhood of the Rigi Kulm, the cold was severe, and, as snow began\nto fall, we were glad to find shelter, near the top of the mountain, at\nan hotel. At half past 4 the next morning we rose and ascended the Rigi\nKulm, whence splendid ranges of innumerable snowy mountain peaks and\ndistant glaciers could be seen extending far and wide, to which,\nilluminated as they were by the bright beams of the rising sun, a\ngorgeous prismatic colouring was imparted; and there we stood for a\nconsiderable time, gazing round upon that grand, wild, solitary, silent\nregion with an interest that could scarcely be exceeded.\n\n    \"God of stillness and of motion,\n       Of the desert and the ocean,\n     Of the mountain, rock, and river,\n       Blessed be THY name for ever!\"\n\nAt 10 o'clock we descended the mountain, embarked in a lake steamer at\nVitznau for Fluellen and Altdorf, and remained at the latter place until\nSept. 15th. On the morning of that day we started by diligence for Mont\nSt. Gothard, slowly ascended a mountain Pass by an Alpine road that\nwinds between stupendous precipices of enormous height, dark, frowning,\nand perpendicular; and after crossing the Pont du Diable, and changing\ncarriages at Andermatt, drove on to the foot of the St. Gothard. From\nthat point a gradual ascent of the mountain (by carriage) was commenced;\nthe grand scenery and bold outline of the rocks becoming, as we\nadvanced, more and more striking and conspicuous; but all was soon\nobscured by clouds and mists, and we alighted at the Hospice (situated\nat the top of the St. Gothard Pass, about 9,000 feet above the level of\nthe sea) encompassed by a dense fog. In these regions _above the clouds_\nthe cold was so intense, that we were thankful to accept the very poor\naccommodation afforded at the Hospice (a little inn intended principally\nfor the reception of travellers on their way to and from Italy), and, in\nspite of the smoke from the cigars of some Italians that filled the only\nroom with a fire in it which the house contained, were glad to be\nallowed to share it with them, and with any other travellers who\nhappened to come in. At 10 we retired to our room, which was a very\nsmall one without a stove or fireplace, where the cold during the night\nwas severe. The next morning (the 16th) we rose early, and, finding\nthat clouds and fog still hung over the whole mountain region,\nconcealing entirely the beauty of the grand scenery around, we got into\nthe first diligence that stopped at the Hospice, and went down the\nmountain at a rapid pace to Andermatt. From there we returned to\nAltdorf, took the steamer to Lucerne, and went on by rail to Zuerich,\nwhere we arrived in time for my husband to fulfil the engagements he had\nmade in that town for the 17th. On the following afternoon (Sunday) he\npreached at the Anna Capelle to a large congregation, the Church being\ncrowded to the utmost, and the staircases and doorways filled; and in\nthe evening held a second meeting at the same place, which was also very\nnumerously attended.\n\nAt Zuerich he continued to conduct services every afternoon or evening\nuntil the 24th, when he addressed a large audience at the Methodist\nEpiscopal Chapel in the morning, and preached in the afternoon at the\nFrau Muenster--an immense Church--to about 1,900 persons. On Sept. 25th\nwe went by lake steamer to Maennedorf, and there were cordially welcomed\nby Mr. Zeller, successor to Dorothea Trudel, who conducted us to\nlodgings at a pretty cottage, with vines trained up against the walls,\nin which she used to live. After Mr. Mueller had preached twice at\nMaennedorf, and held two meetings at Waedenschwyl, a small town on the\nopposite side of the lake, we returned to Zuerich; and on the evening of\nSept. 29th he preached at Wytikon, a village four miles distant, where\nspecial arrangements for lighting the Church with lamps were necessary,\nbecause evening services were never held. During our two visits to\nZuerich he preached in that town and in the neighbourhood 18 times\naltogether.\n\nOn Oct. 1st we went to St. Gallen, and afterwards visited Hauptweil,\nHeinrichsbad (a small Sanatorium), Herisau, Heiden, Niederuzwyl, Mollis,\nGlarus, and Trogen, and on Oct. 23rd returned to Heiden. At all of these\nplaces he held meetings with great encouragement and success, except at\nGlarus, where the population is partly of an infidel character. Here\nsome young men entered the Hall, evidently intending to disturb the\nmeeting; but the service, nevertheless, was of a most solemn character.\nOn the following evening the number of hearers at the same Hall was\nconsiderably larger, and the preacher was listened to with great\nattention.\n\nFrom the grandeur and sublimity of their mountain scenery, Mollis,\nGlarus, and the whole neighbourhood for miles around, are wonderful\nlocalities. These are no places, one would think, for infidels; for\nhere, if _any_where, the most careless even must be constrained to\nacknowledge that \"the strength of the hills is His also.\" On Oct. 20th\nwe went to Ragatz (situated in a picturesque spot on the Splugen Road,\nin the Valley of the Rhine), and on the following morning took a drive\nto Pfaeffers-Bad, three miles distant, in the narrow deep gorge of the\nTamina, between perpendicular cliffs of an amazing height, where, even\nduring the summer months, the sun shines only from 10 o'clock till 4.\nThe hot sulphur springs (temperature 94 deg.) are reached by a road of\nplanks at the bottom of the gorge, which has high precipices on each\nside of it, only wide enough apart for the Bath House to stand on the\nlevel ground between them. This Pfaeffers-Bad is considered one of the\nmost curious and remarkable spots throughout the whole of Switzerland.\n\nOn Oct. 24th we left Heiden and went to Constance, where, on the evening\nof that day, Mr. Mueller held a meeting at a large Hall of the Insel\nHotel, which is situated on an island in the Boden See, or Lake of\nConstance. This hotel used formerly to be a Dominican Monastery, and the\nHall, just referred to, was the Church originally belonging to the\nbuilding. An old tower, connected with the Monastery, in which John Huss\nwas imprisoned, is still standing close to the hotel. During our short\nstay at Constance, three other meetings were held (two of them in the\ntown), and before our departure we visited the Council Chamber at the\nMerchants' Hall, in which the Council sat by whom Huss was tried and\nsentenced to be burned at the stake. The spot--now marked by a monument\nnear the Bruehl outside, where, in the year 1416, he and Jerome, of\nPrague, suffered martyrdom, is also one of the interesting places in\nthis neighbourhood.\n\nOn Oct. 28th we went to Schaffhausen, visited the beautiful Falls of the\nRhine, and on the 29th, at the Johannes Kirche (an immense building),\nMr. Mueller addressed a congregation of about 3,000. Upon four other\noccasions also he preached at the same Church, with great help from the\nLord. From Schaffhausen, on Nov. 3rd, we proceeded to Winterthur, and\nafter he had held two meetings there, left for Basle on the 4th. Here,\nduring the fortnight we remained, he addressed very large congregations\nevery evening, either at the great Hall of the Vereins Haus, at a Hall\nbelonging to the Moravians, or at one of the Churches. He addressed the\nTheological Students of the University also, and spoke for an hour and a\nquarter to 85 Missionary Students and their Teachers. On the 15th, at\nBeugen, he held a meeting at an Institution for young men who were being\ntrained for teachers; on the 16th addressed 65 Missionary Students at\nCreschona, and on the 17th preached at Lehrach. On Nov. 18th we went to\nMuelhausen, and afterwards visited Strasburg, Stuttgart, Kornthal,\nLudwigsburg, Reutlingen, Ober-Urbach, Heilbronn, Carlsruhe, Gernsbach\n(in the neighbourhood of the Black Forest), Heidelberg, Mannheim,\nFrankfort on the Maine, Darmstadt, Bonn, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Muelheim,\nGladbach, Reydt, Viersen, Crefeld, Duisburg, Essen, Elberfeld, and\nBarmen, at all of which places important, happy meetings--generally\ncrowded to the very utmost--were held, both at Halls and in the\nChurches.\n\nAt Bonn Mr. Mueller addressed the Theological Students of the\nUniversity; and at Barmen, spoke to the Missionary Students at the\nMission House. Muelheim an der Ruhr, Barmen, and Elberfeld were found by\nus the green spots (spiritually) of Germany, where it was refreshing to\nbe--on account of the great measure of spiritual life that existed\nthere. The details, however, of all these services are not given,\nbecause it is undesirable to make this narrative too long; but it may be\ninteresting to mention that at Stuttgart he was honoured by an interview\nwith the Queen of Wurtemberg, who sent for him to the palace and asked a\nnumber of questions about the Orphan Work in Bristol; and on Jan. 13th,\n1877, at Darmstadt, he held a drawing-room meeting at the house of the\nCourt preacher, Mr. Bender, giving (by particular request) a short\naccount of his life and labours to a large company of gentlemen and\nladies assembled there. Upon this occasion four drawing-rooms were\nthrown open, and Princess Karl, (mother of Prince Louis of Hesse,\nhusband of the late Princess Alice of England) Princess von Battenburg,\nand several gentlemen and ladies connected with the Court were present.\nThe two Princesses shook hands with us very kindly afterwards, and\nexpressed much interest in the account which had been given.\n\nOn March 24th we left Barmen for Cassel, where, on Sunday morning, the\n25th, at half past 9, Mr. Mueller preached at the Brueder Kirche to about\n500 people, and in the afternoon, at St. Martin's Kirche--the largest\nChurch in the city--to only between 600 and 700, a circumstance which\nshowed how low the state of spiritual life was at Cassel compared with\nthat of Barmen, Elberfeld, and Muelheim, where the Churches were so\nthronged, that, even when the rain fell in torrents, they were not large\nenough to contain the people who crowded to the meetings, though many\nhad to walk to them six, eight, or ten miles. The congregations,\nhowever, increased in size continually.\n\nWhilst at Cassel we took a drive to the Palace of Wilhelmshoehe, four\nmiles distant, situated in a beautiful park, surrounded by extensive\ngrounds where, in 1870, after his ignominious defeat at Sedan, Napoleon\nIII., the late Emperor of the French, was sent as a State prisoner by\nthe present Emperor of Germany.\n\nOn March 28th we left Cassel and went to Halle, _via_ Eisenach, to visit\nthe Wartburg (an old Castle standing on a steep hill, 1,355 feet in\nheight, where Luther was concealed in 1521) and explored the interior of\nthe building. The sitting-room, occupied by the great Reformer, when he\ntranslated the Scriptures into German, is shown to visitors. His chair\nalso, and an old bedstead upon which he slept, are preserved as objects\nof interest. The Wartburg contains a small chapel likewise, and numerous\nvaluable relics. At 9 in the evening we reached Halle. The next\nafternoon Mr. Mueller spoke at the great Hall of Francke's Orphan\nInstitution from Heb. xi. 4, and on March 30th gave an address on\nprayer at the same Hall, upon which occasion he made particular\nreference to the life and labours of Francke, because the example set by\nthat devoted servant of Christ of founding an Orphan Institution, in\ndependence upon God alone for help, was a great encouragement to him\nwhen he began his Orphan Work in Bristol. Whilst at Halle we went\nthrough the Orphan Asylum, founded by Francke in 1698, and visited the\ndifferent departments of the Institution. My husband called also upon\nhis old friend Dr. Tholuck, Counsellor of the Upper Consistorium of\nPrussia, and Professor of Theology at the University of Halle, who was\nthen living.\n\nOn March 31st we left Halle for Berlin, and on the way there went to\nWittenberg, a fortified town on the Elbe, to visit the Schlosskirche,\nwhich contains the tombs of Luther and Melancthon. Here, too, we saw the\nChurch doors upon which, on Oct. 31st, 1517, Luther's 95 Theses against\nthe doctrine of Indulgencies were posted up, introducing the\nReformation; and at an old Monastery were conducted to the room where he\nlived as an Augustine Monk, and shown the cup out of which he used to\ndrink. In the market place is a great bronze statue of the Reformer, and\nanother of Melancthon near it. We visited an Oak also, which marks the\nspot where, on Dec. 10th, 1520, Luther burned the Pope's bulls; saw the\nexterior of Melancthon's house; and afterwards, continuing our journey\nby rail, arrived at Berlin late the same evening. There, as long as we\nremained, Mr. Mueller preached nearly every evening at one of the various\nplaces of worship in the city, and held meetings at St. Johannes Kirche,\nOld Moabit, the Erste Vereins Haus, the Christus Kirche, the Moravian\nBrethren's Hall, etc. On Sundays he preached regularly twice. The\naudiences generally were very large. On April 7th, Count Bismarck, (a\ncousin of Prince Bismarck), came a distance of 125 miles on purpose to\nsee and hear him, because my husband's Narrative had been made a great\nblessing to his soul.\n\nOn the 21st we visited Potsdam, on the morning of the 23rd left Berlin,\nand in the afternoon arrived at Stettin, Pomerania, near the Baltic.\nHere Mr. Mueller preached several times, and afterwards we visited Luebeck\n(one of the three great Hanse towns, about 200 miles from Stettin),\nHanover, Bielefeld (in Westphalia), Soest (a very remarkable old\nHanseatic town), and Ruhrort, at each of which places he preached also\nrepeatedly. On May 16th we arrived at Nimeguen, Holland, where he held a\nmeeting the same evening at the Dutch Reformed Church, and on the 17th\nvisited an Orphan Institution for 450 children, seven miles from\nNimeguen, established in consequence of the blessing which has rested\nupon the Ashley Down Orphan Houses, and carried on in the same spirit in\nwhich our own Institution is conducted. There he addressed the children\nwith translation into Dutch, and we afterwards went through the various\nDepartments of the Asylum. At Nimeguen, Mr. Mueller continued to preach\nuntil May 21st, when we went by steamer to Arnheim (a beautiful town in\nGuelderland, on the banks of the Rhine), and afterwards visited Utrecht,\nat each of which places he held meetings repeatedly. On May 26th we\nreached Amsterdam, where he preached several times, either in German, or\nin German with translation into Dutch; and whilst there a letter arrived\nfrom the United States, signed by the Rev. E. P. Thwing, and four other\npastors, earnestly inviting him to labour in America.\n\n\"Amsterdam is built upon piles driven through 50 or 60 feet of peat and\nsand, and is protected by dykes. Its numerous canals and 95 islands are\nspanned by 300 bridges. The diamond cutting industry of Amsterdam is the\nmost celebrated in the world, and supports 10,000 workmen, 9,000 of whom\nare Jews. At Koster's the Kohinoor and other diamonds were cut.\"\n\nOn June 3rd we went to Zeist, an interesting Moravian settlement, where\nmy husband preached three times, and afterwards visited Haarlem, Leyden,\nand the Hague (the residence of the Court and Government), at each of\nwhich places he held several meetings. Those at the Hague were attended\nby many both of the upper and the lower classes, but by none belonging\nto the middle ranks of life. Before our departure from the Hague we\nspent a few hours at Scheveling, a small sea-port on the Dutch coast;\nand on June 13th left for Rotterdam, where Mr. Mueller spoke the same\nevening at a Conference. The following evening he gave another address\nat the Conference Hall, and on June 15th preached at one of the Reformed\nChurches, to a large Congregation. This was his last service on the\nContinent. During this long tour, there is the fullest reason to\nbelieve, that God greatly blessed his labours at all the places that we\nvisited. On June 16th we left Rotterdam for England, via Brussels,\nCalais, and Dover, and arrived in London on the 18th. On the 21st he\nspoke at one of the Mildmay Conference meetings; on the 23rd gave an\naddress at the noon prayer meeting, and on Sunday (24th) preached in the\nafternoon and evening at the Conference Hall to very large\ncongregations. These services brought the labours of his third\nmissionary tour to a close, and on June 25th we left London and returned\nto Bristol.\n\n\n\n\nFOURTH TOUR.\n\nCANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.\n\n_From August 18th, 1877, to July 8th, 1878._\n\n\nAfter returning from the Continent, a few weeks were spent at the Orphan\nHouses on Ashley Down, where everything was found to be going on well;\nbut, after much prayer, considering it to be the will of God we should\nrespond to the letter of invitation received at Amsterdam, and visit the\nUnited States, on August 18th, 1877, we went to Liverpool, in order to\nembark for Canada, having been strongly advised to take the shorter sea\nvoyage to Quebec instead of going to New York. On the morning of Sunday,\nthe 19th, Mr. Mueller, spoke at the Albion Hall, in the evening he\npreached at Toxteth Tabernacle; and whilst we remained at Liverpool held\nthree other meetings.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, August 23rd, we went on board the steamship\n\"Sardinian\" (Allan Line) and sailed at 7 in the evening. The following\nmorning we touched at Moville, on the North coast of Ireland; and, after\nwaiting there a few hours, to take in the mails, steamed out into the\nAtlantic. Our cabin, the chief officer's deck room, was tolerably\ncomfortable, and the voyage, though rough, was a favourable one upon the\nwhole. Off the Island of Newfoundland, the weather became cold, and the\nprogress of the vessel was retarded considerably by fogs; but on August\n30th, the welcome cry of \"land!\" from the steerage passengers was heard,\nand when the fog lifted, Belle Island on our right was in full view, at\na short distance only from the ship. On the evening of that day Mr.\nMueller held a meeting in the forecastle for the sailors and steerage\npassengers, and spoke afterwards in the Chart Room to as many of the\ncabin passengers as were able to attend. On the 31st we entered the Gulf\nof St. Lawrence--460 miles in length--where a heavy sea was running, and\nsoon came in sight of the island of Anticosti, inhabited only (it is\nsaid) by bears and wolves.\n\nOn the evening of that day, Mr. Mueller gave an address at a meeting in\nthe saloon, and early on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 1st, the mail\nbags were landed at Rimouski, where a few passengers went on shore. The\nremainder of the day was occupied in going up the River St. Lawrence. On\nits northern bank, a long range of mountain district extends for many\nmiles; and on its southern side close to the river's brink, numbers of\nwhite houses--the homes of French-Canadian settlers--are dotted along\nthe shore for a great distance. In the evening, as we drew near Quebec,\nthe \"Sardinian\" fired guns as a signal of her approach; and at\nhalf-past eight we reached Point Louis, South Quebec, after a voyage of\nnine days, six hours and a half, and anchored alongside the wharf. From\nthe landing-place a carriage conveyed us up a steep hill to the Hotel\nSt. Louis, where a number of letters awaited our arrival, containing a\nwarm welcome to America, and numerous invitations for my husband to\npreach in the United States. On Sunday evening, Sept. 2nd, at the\nBaptist Church, he preached for the first time in Canada, and the\nfollowing day at a Hall in the city held two other services. We had\nhappy interviews also with several Christian friends. An abundance of\nwork would have been ready for him at once at various places in Canada;\nbut as the letter of invitation, received at Amsterdam came from pastors\nin the United States, it seemed right to go there first, and\nparticularly to Brooklyn, where Mr. Thwing resided.\n\nOn the morning of Sept. 4th, some friends took us in a carriage to see\nthe beautiful Falls of Montmorenci, nine miles distant, where the river\nof that name, after leaping for miles over a rocky bed, rushes with\ngreat velocity to the edge of the high rocks over which it falls, and\npours its snowy cataract 250 feet into the valley below. Quebec is\nbeautifully situated, and is a place of great historic interest. Near\nthe town are the \"Plains of Abraham,\" and the spot where General Wolfe\nfell. A monument erected to his memory and to that of Montcalm, stands\nupon it. The Citadel, sometimes called the \"Gibraltar of America,\" is a\nfortress upon the summit of a very high rock, from which there is a\nmagnificent view of the St. Lawrence, and of the surrounding\nneighbourhood. At 6 o'clock on the evening of the 4th, we went on board\na river steamer, and, after a favourable night passage, at 7 the next\nmorning, arrived at Montreal, where some brethren waiting on the\nlanding-stage asked us to remain; we did not, however, accept their kind\ninvitation, and at 9 o'clock started for Toronto, where, after a long\nrailway journey of 333 miles, we arrived at half-past 11 the same night.\nOn the 6th we went on, via Hamilton, to Niagara, and--having decided to\nremain there till the next day--spent the afternoon in surveying the\nwonders of the celebrated \"Falls,\" situated on the River Niagara, a\nstrait connecting the floods of Lake Erie and Ontario.\n\nThe first distant view of them was rather disappointing; but a closer\ninspection revealed their magnitude and grandeur to the full. \"The\nwaters for which the Niagara (a name signifying Thunder of Waters) forms\nan outlet cover an area of 150,000 square miles, floods so grand and\ninexhaustible as to be totally unaffected by the loss of the hundreds of\nmillions of tons which they pour every hour through succeeding centuries\nover rugged, perpendicular cliffs into the depths beneath.\"\n\nAfter driving to a bridge just above the American Falls, we made a\npartial circuit of Goat Island on foot, halting at all the chief points\nof interest. A staircase on the right led first to Luna Island, where,\nstanding by a railing close to the edge of the precipice, we beheld the\nvast, swift, overwhelming waters of the _American_ Falls, 169 feet high,\nimmediately beside us, rushing in a tremendous torrent right over the\nbrink, down into the fearful gulf below. \"This, we thought, surpasses\neverything; surely this must be the grandest Cataract in the world.\" But\nit was not; for a few more steps brought us full upon the great Horse\nShoe Fall, on the Canadian side of the river, a mighty Cataract 150 feet\nhigh, and 1,900 feet in breadth, where with overwhelming velocity and\nforce, \"1,500 millions of cubic feet of water\" (according to Professor\nLyell) rush every hour over the ledge of rocks, forming a huge, boiling\ncauldron at the bottom of the cliffs. And then the \"Rapids!\" those\nwondrous Rapids--which some think equal to the great Cataracts\nthemselves--especially attracted our attention. Just above the Falls,\nthe bed of the Niagara descends about 51 feet in three-quarters of a\nmile, and there, over rough ridges of rock, great masses of stone and\nlarge boulders, its waters surge and foam, in ten thousand fantastic\nshapes, and in the wildest turmoil, as though frantically eager to rush\nover the precipices into the abyss below. After seeing the \"Rapids\" we\ncrossed the river by the new Suspension Bridge, and returned to the\nClifton Hotel.\n\nThe next afternoon, at half-past 2, we left for New York, travelled in a\nPullman's sleeping-car all night, and at 7 on the morning of Sept. 8th\nreached our destination, after a journey of 446 miles. From the terminus\na carriage conveyed us to Brooklyn, \"the City of Churches,\" about seven\nmiles distant, where--at the Pierpoint House--we remained for six weeks.\nOn Sunday morning, Sept. 9th, at Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle (said to be\nthe largest church in the United States), in the absence of Dr. Talmage,\nMr. Mueller was most affectionately introduced to the audience by\nProfessor Thwing, who in the course of a short speech from the platform,\npaused for a few moments, and shaking hands with him before the\nassembled multitude welcomed him to the United States. Mr. Mueller then\naddressed the congregation, and preached for three-quarters of an hour\nwith much help from the Lord. In the evening he spoke again at the\nTabernacle, and after the meeting, amongst the numbers who pressed\nforward to greet us was a sister in Christ, one of the former Orphans\nfrom Ashley Down, who has been married for many years.\n\nDuring our visit to Brooklyn, Mr. Mueller held a great number of\nmeetings. On Sept. 12th he spoke at the Fulton Street prayer meeting,\nNew York, and besides his regular preaching, visited Orphan and other\nInstitutions, ministered amongst the Germans (of whom there are about\nten millions throughout the United States), and continued actively\nengaged in the Lord's service until Sept. 20th, when we went by river\nsteamer up the Hudson, to the city of Hudson, and attended a Convention,\nwhere be gave three addresses. On the 22nd we returned to Brooklyn, and\non the following morning and evening he preached at Plymouth Church. On\nthe 24th he spoke again at the Fulton Street prayer meeting, preached in\nGerman at Newark on the 25th, addressed the German students of the\nTheological Seminary at Bloomfield on the 26th, attended meetings for\npastors, whom he addressed, visited a Homoeopathic Institution,\npreached at Williamsburg, East Brooklyn, on Oct. 7th, and continued day\nafter day to labour uninterruptedly, until Oct. 20th, when we went to\nBoston, after he had spoken in public at Brooklyn and the other places\nabove mentioned 50 times.\n\nAt Boston Mr. Mueller began his work by speaking on Sunday morning, Oct.\n21st, at Mr. Moody's Tabernacle--a large building which holds 7,000, but\nwhere on this occasion, as rain fell heavily, the congregation was\ncomparatively small--and in the evening he preached at Park Street\nChurch. On Oct. 22nd he held a meeting at Berkeley Street Church, and\nthe next morning was called upon by an inquirer, a young man under deep\nconviction of sin, who, having experienced an overwhelming consciousness\nof his lost condition by nature, during the sermon of the previous\nevening, was so affected that he could scarcely speak for weeping.\nDuring our stay at Boston my husband held meetings also at Dr. Cullis's\nChapel; addressed the 350 young ladies at Wellesley College, 15 miles\nfrom Boston; preached at the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, at Warren\nAvenue Baptist Church, at Charlestown; spoke at Dr. Cullis's Faith\nCollege; addressed 500 school teachers at Cambridge; preached at Dudley\nBaptist Church, at Boston Highlands, at Clarendon Street Church; visited\nDr. Cullis's Institution for Consumptive patients, whom he addressed,\nwhen Dr. C. remarked, \"But for your example, all this would never have\nbeen in existence\"--and continued his labours until Nov. 3rd, on which\nday we went to Newburyport.\n\nThere, on the morning of the 4th, at the Old Presbyterian\nChurch--founded by George Whitefield, and where he ministered--Mr.\nMueller spoke from Isaiah liii. 5, 6, and read out of the Bible which\nbelonged to that eminent servant of Christ, a circumstance noted with\ninterest by the hearers, as this Bible is not generally used. He\noccupied a pulpit also which stands just above the spot where the\nremains of Whitefield lie interred. In one corner of the Church a\nhandsome monument has been erected to his memory, and the vault is shown\nin which his coffin rests; but when the lid was removed, the skull and a\nfew bones only could be seen of the celebrated man, whose voice once\nreached the ears of tens of thousands, and whose eloquent appeals, in\nyears gone by, made careless, unconverted sinners tremble. The\nfollowing inscription is upon the monument:--\"This Cenotaph is erected\nwith affectionate veneration to the memory of the Rev. George\nWhitefield, born at Gloucester, England, Dec. 16th, 1714, educated at\nOxford University, ordained 1736. In a ministry of 34 years, he crossed\nthe Atlantic 13 times, and preached more than 18,000 sermons. As a\nsoldier of the cross, humble, devout, ardent, he put on the whole armour\nof God, preferring the honour of Christ to his own interest, repose,\nreputation, or life. As a Christian orator, his deep piety,\ndisinterested zeal, and vivid imagination, gave unexampled energy to his\nlook, action, and utterance. Bold, fervent, pungent, and popular in his\neloquence, no other uninspired man ever preached to so large assemblies,\nor enforced the simple truths of the gospel by motives so persuasive and\nawful, and with an influence so powerful on the hearts of his hearers.\nHe died of asthma Sept. 30th, 1770; solemnly exchanging a life of\nunparalleled labours for his eternal rest.\"\n\nIn a \"Memoir of his Life and Labours,\" published in the United States,\nhis biographer remarks that--\"His out-of-door audiences consisted of\ntwenty, thirty, and forty thousand at a time, whose singing could be\nheard two miles off, and Whitefield's own voice also could be heard at a\ndistance of a mile from where he stood. When exhorting Howell Harris\nabout his people in a letter, Whitefield wrote--\"Show them in the map of\nthe Word, the kingdoms of the upper world, and the transcendent glories\nof them; and assure them that all shall be theirs, if they believe on\nJesus Christ with their whole hearts. Press them to believe on Him\nimmediately. Intersperse prayers with your exhortations, and thereby\ncall down fire from heaven, even the fire of the Holy Ghost. Speak every\ntime, my dear brother, as though it were your last; weep out, if\npossible, every argument; and, as it were, compel them to cry,--\"Behold\nhow He loveth us!\" The author of this Memoir further says--\"Present duty\nwas the only thing that ever pressed hard upon him; past bitternesses he\nquickly forgot; future troubles he left with God. He lived one day at a\ntime and lived it _thoroughly_; exhorting every one around, to follow\nhis Lord and Master.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of Nov. 4th, Mr. Mueller preached again at Whitefield's\nChurch. During our stay at Newburyport, he held three other meetings,\nand on the evening of the 7th at the Baptist Church he gave a farewell\naddress. On the 8th we went to Amherst, where there is a College\ncontaining 350 students, to whom and to other hearers from the town, my\nhusband spoke for an hour on the evening of that day. During our stay,\nat the house of President Seelye, Principal of the Institution, the\nfollowing interesting account of a former College student (a Japanese)\nwas related to us. Whilst in his native country, many years ago, this\nyoung man, becoming dissatisfied with his gods of wood and stone,\nhappened one day to meet with a Primer for children, written by a\nmissionary in the Japanese tongue, when his eyes lighted upon these\nwords:--\"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.\" Genesis\ni, 1. The thought, that there was a Being who had _created_ the material\nuniverse around, the beautiful earth with all its wonders, and the\nstarry host in the spacious firmament above, struck him forcibly.\n\"_That_ God (thought he) is the Being _I_ will worship;\" and for some\ntime he ignorantly, but sincerely, worshipped the God of Genesis i. At\nlength, ardently desiring to learn something more about the true God, he\ndetermined to leave the country secretly, and to go to China, with the\nhope of obtaining further light. At Shanghai a New Testament in the\nJapanese language was given him, when, on opening the book, he\nimmediately caught sight of this verse:--\"God so loved the world that He\ngave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not\nperish but have everlasting life.\" John iii. 16. \"Whosoever?\" (he\nthought to himself) \"that must mean _any_body, and as _I_ am somebody,\nthat must mean _me_.\" He studied his New Testament with the deepest\ninterest; _believed_ what he read, and, through the teaching of the Holy\nSpirit, became a decided Christian. Desiring to be more fully instructed\nin the truth, he determined to go to the United States, and sailed for\nBoston in a ship belonging to a Christian merchant of that city, who,\non his arrival, became so much interested in the young convert, that he\nsent him to school at Andover, where he remained three years. After\nthat, he studied for three years at Amherst College, and then returned\nto Andover, where, at a Theological Seminary--as he intended to become a\nminister of the gospel--his education was further carried on. Finally he\nreturned to Japan as a missionary, and was the means of bringing his\nparents and brothers to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. A\nphotograph of this young man was shown to us by President Seelye.\n\nOn Nov. 9th we took a drive to Mount Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley,\nfounded by Mary Lyon; a most interesting and important Institution,\nwhere, in a large Hall, Mr. Mueller addressed the 225 lady students and\ntheir 25 teachers. We afterwards walked through the beautiful and\nextensive grounds connected with the Seminary, were conducted through\nits various Departments, and visited Miss Lyon's grave. From Amherst, on\nNov. 10th, we went to Providence, Rhode Island, where my husband\npreached four times to large, attentive audiences, and--at the request\nof the President--addressed the Students of the University. After\nleaving Providence we proceeded to New York. There he spoke for an hour\nat the Bible Union meeting, preached at the Baptist Central Church, and\nat the Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association addressed a very\nlarge German congregation, including about 30 German ministers. On the\n15th, at the Presbyterian Church, Orange, New Jersey, he addressed the\nteachers of 22 different Sunday Schools with reference to their service,\nwhen the building was crowded with an immense congregation; and on the\n16th, preached at a Baptist Church, New York.\n\nOn Nov. 17th, we left for Jersey City--at which place, as well as at\nElizabeth and Morristown, several important meetings were held--and on\nthe 24th, went on to Philadelphia. There my husband began work the next\nday, and, during our stay, preached many times to crowded congregations.\nOn the evening of Nov. 26th, a meeting for Christian workers was held at\nChambers' Presbyterian Church, when he addressed about 1,400 brethren\nand sisters in Christ for an hour and a half, with great help from the\nLord, and on the morning of Dec. 3rd (by invitation) attended a meeting\nof pastors at one of the Methodist Episcopal Churches, where, at their\nrequest, he addressed about 500 ministers of various denominations, who\nhad assembled to hear him. Upon this occasion he spoke to them for an\nhour and 20 minutes on 15 different points connected with their service\nfor the Lord, and considered this meeting one of the most precious\nopportunities of witnessing for Christ ever afforded to him in his whole\nlife. Numbers of these brethren pressed round him afterwards, expressed\ntheir thanks, and cordially invited him to preach in their churches. In\na very short time also, he received an invitation to address the\n_Episcopal_ ministers on the following Monday morning. On the 4th Dec.\nhe preached at the Scott Methodist Episcopal Church from 1st Tim. i. 15,\n16, with great power, when the people appeared to be deeply impressed;\nand on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 9th, spoke at the Hall of a Sunday\nSchool, built by a Christian gentleman at a cost of 150,000 dollars.\nThis school (probably the largest in the world) is generally attended by\n2,200 children; but, on this occasion, the younger ones having been\ndismissed, 1,500 only were present. As about 1,500 other hearers,\nhowever, were there, he had altogether a congregation of 3,000. The\narrangements connected with this Sunday School were the most perfect we\nhave ever seen, and the Hall, where the school is held, is a very large\nbeautiful building. Before our departure from Philadelphia, Mr. Mueller\npreached at Haddonfield, New Jersey, on Dec. 6th and at German Town, on\nthe 7th, to a very large audience, at the great Hall of the Young Men's\nChristian Association. On Monday, Dec. 10th, he attended the united\nmeeting of Episcopal ministers already referred to, when he addressed\nthem for an hour, on ten weighty points connected with their service; 48\nwere present. At All Saints Episcopal Church, on the evening of Dec.\n14th, he preached from the 103rd Psalm, when the church was filled with\nhearers. No clerical gown was put on, and a few collects only were read\nby the minister at the commencement of the service.\n\nOn Dec. 15th, we left Philadelphia for Baltimore, where, the next\nmorning (Sunday, 16th), he preached at the largest Methodist Episcopal\nChurch, which was crowded, the aisles, etc., being thronged; and in the\nevening held a meeting at the First Presbyterian Church, when this\nbuilding also was filled--many had to stand, and others to go away for\nwant of room. During the whole of our stay at Baltimore, my husband\ncontinued to labour uninterruptedly, preaching night after night to\nimmense audiences; but as a minute account of his work in the various\ncities we visited, throughout our long tour, would take up too much\nspace, a few particulars only of his ministry at the most important\nplaces can be given. On Dec. 21st, he spoke at a State Convention, in\nthe presence of about 150 gentlemen connected with jails, reformatories,\netc., who had assembled to consider this subject--\"Is religious\ninstruction an agent necessary for the reformation of prisoners?\"--a\nquestion which was answered by him most decidedly in the affirmative.\n\nOn Dec. 22nd we went by rail to Annapolis, 21 miles from Baltimore, and\nby steamer afterwards down the Severn out into the Bay of Chesapeake,\nwhich is the largest Bay in the United States. On our return to\nBaltimore by water, we got into important conversation with some German\ninfidels, and were glad to have opportunities of giving little books\nand tracts to them as well as to other passengers on board the steamer.\nOn Dec. 25th, Mr. Mueller preached at the Independent Methodist Church,\nand continued to labour at Baltimore until the 29th, when we went to\nWashington. There, on the morning of Sunday, the 30th, he preached at\nthe Congregational Church--the largest in the city--and in the afternoon\nat 3 o'clock at Lincoln Hall. On the evening of Dec. 31st, at Dr.\nSunderland's Church, he spoke from Psalm ciii. 3-5, with particular\nreference to the close of the year, when he addressed his hearers with\ngreat solemnity, earnestness, and power.\n\nOn Jan. 1st, 1878, the firing of canons early in the morning ushered in\nthe new year, which is a time of much excitement and gaiety in\nWashington, when the President holds a \"reception,\" and there is a great\ndeal of visiting from house to house. On the evening of that day my\nhusband preached at the Foundry Church, from Exodus xvii. 1-7, when,\nalthough it was a time of so much pleasure and amusement, between 700\nand 800 people were present. On Jan. 3rd we visited Wayland Seminary, a\nfew miles from Washington, where he addressed 97 male and female\ncoloured students, who were being trained for missionary work: a deeply\nimportant service. As they possessed great taste for music, and\nconsiderable vocal talent, it was quite a treat to hear them sing; for\nmusic--in the Lord's service--being carefully studied at this Seminary,\nthe sacred pieces which they sang were exquisitely given. In the evening\nMr. Mueller preached at Dr. Mitchell's Church, from Romans xii. 2, where,\nafter the service, one of the pastors came up to him and said: \"God sent\nyou to America, dear Brother. That's _just_ the kind of teaching that we\nwant; something that will rouse and wake up _Christians_ as well as the\nunconverted. God sent you to America, Sir; of that I am certain.\" On\nJan. 4th he preached at the Calvary Baptist Church, and on the 5th we\nwent to the Virginia Episcopal Theological Seminary, near Alexandria,\nabout 11 miles from Washington, and were driven three miles from the\nrailway station to the Institution in an open carriage in bitterly cold\nweather, the thermometer being six degrees below zero, that is, it\nregistered 38 degrees of frost. There, in the presence of their\nprofessors--4 in number--and the President, my husband addressed 41\nyoung men, students, who were preparing for the ministry and for\nmissionary service; and about 40 young students from the High School\nbesides, who, with their tutors, had been invited to attend the meeting.\nOn Sunday, the 6th, he preached three times: in the morning at the\nMetropolitan Church, a very large one, which was crowded; in the\nafternoon at Lincoln Hall to about 1,500 persons; and in the evening at\nthe Foundry Church.\n\nOn the morning of Jan. 10th, at half past 9, we accompanied Mr. Shipley,\nof Cincinnati (by appointment), to the White House, to be introduced by\nhim to the President and to Mrs. Hayes. They received us with much\ncourtesy, and, after making some inquiries about our work in England,\nthe former entered for half an hour into conversation with Mr. Mueller.\nMrs. Hayes afterwards conducted us through the White House, a large old\nmansion, and showed us the State apartments, with the various objects of\ninterest which this residence contains.\n\nOn Jan. 11th Mr. Mueller addressed about 1,000 Christian Workers, at the\nLutheran Memorial Church, for an hour and 20 minutes; and on the 15th\nspoke to the coloured students at Howard University for an hour, where\nthe work carried on is of a most important character. During the whole\nof our stay at Washington, his time was fully occupied, and he preached\nevery evening, and sometimes twice a day, as long as we remained. On the\n19th we visited the Capitol, which has a dome nearly 400 feet in height;\nfrom the top of which the river Potomac, Mount Vernon, Alexandria,\nWashington, and the whole neighbourhood could be seen, and afterwards\nwalked through the Government Buildings, public offices, etc. On the\nmorning of Sunday, Jan. 20th, Mr. Mueller preached at the First Baptist\nChurch, and in the afternoon at 4 o'clock gave a farewell address at the\nLutheran Memorial Church to a very crowded audience.\n\nOn Jan. 21st we left for Salem, in Virginia, 239 miles from Washington,\nand on our way passed many of the places which were the scenes of\ndeadly conflict between the Federals and Confederates during the civil\nwar that raged in the United States many years ago. Near the line of\nrailway Cemeteries were to be seen, filled with long rows of graves\nplaced close together, and marked by white stones, where the corpses of\nthose who were slain in battle lie interred. Alas! what an awful,\nmelancholy war was _that_! After travelling for twelve hours, at 8 p.m.\nwe arrived at Salem, a small secluded town, 1,450 feet above the level\nof the sea, situated in a beautiful valley amongst the Alleghany\nMountains. On the following evening my husband preached at the Lutheran\nChurch to a most crowded congregation, consisting of pastors,\ntheological students, ladies, country people, negroes, children, the\nvisitors from the Duval Hotel--where we were staying--its three\nproprietors, the servants (one woman only being left at home); and an\nelderly Welch minister from Merthyr Tydvil, for 30 years a resident in\nthe United States, walked seven miles from the country to be present at\nthe meeting. All who could possibly attend turned out to hear George\nMueller, of Bristol, England, who preached for upwards of an hour, and\nwas listened to with the liveliest interest and attention. On the\nevening of the 23rd he held a second meeting at the Lutheran Church, and\naddressed a densely crowded congregation, when the appearance of the\nbuilding plainly showed that it is not necessary to go to large cities\nin order to have vast audiences. Hundreds of young men were present,\nmost of them students from Roanoke College and the Theological Seminary,\nmany of whom were standing at the entrance closely packed together;\nwhilst others sat upon the pulpit platform side by side. The gallery was\nthronged. At the back of it several young men were standing upon forms,\nwith their heads near the ceiling, and upon the edge of the front seats\nin the gallery a few boys were perched, with their legs hanging over the\npews, in a somewhat dangerous position. Mr. Mueller spoke for an hour and\n35 minutes, giving (by particular request) some account of his life and\nlabours, and the meeting, which lasted two hours, was a very blessed\none. The next morning he spoke at the Theological Seminary to the\nstudents, and in the evening preached for the third time at the Lutheran\nChurch, his particular object being to address the young men from\nRoanoke College and the students of the Theological Seminary. The\nportion of Scripture from which he spoke was Eccles. xi. 9, 10, and\nchapter xii. 1.\n\nOn Jan. 25th we rose at 4, left the railway station--at some distance\nfrom our hotel--at a quarter past six, and travelled, _via_ Lynchburg,\nDundee, Salisbury, and Charlotte, to Columbia, in South Carolina, where,\nafter a long, fatiguing journey of 378 miles, which it took 21 hours to\naccomplish, we arrived at half past 3, early on the morning of the 26th,\nand (by special invitation) went to the house of Chief Justice Willard.\nThe next day, (Sunday,) Mr. Mueller preached in the morning at the\nPresbyterian, and in the evening at the Methodist Episcopal Church,\nwhere, though the congregations were small compared with those in the\nNorth, they were large for the Southern States. On the morning of the\n28th we went through the State House, the Capitol of Columbia, and were\nintroduced by Judge Willard to the Governor, the Secretary of State for\nSouth Carolina, the Comptroller-General, and other government officers.\nWe visited the Senate Chamber also while the senators were sitting, and\nthe House of Representatives, where, on the following morning (by\nparticular request), Mr. Mueller opened the deliberations of the day,\naccording to custom, with prayer. At 1 o'clock he addressed the young\nmen and lads at the Reformatory Prison, and, before our departure from\nColumbia, preached four times at the different churches, giving an\naddress besides to 41 students, with their President and professors, at\nthe Theological Seminary on Feb. 21st. Columbia _was_ a fine city once;\nbut two-thirds of it were destroyed by fire during the civil war, and\nthe place, though now re-built, has never thoroughly recovered its\nformer beauty. It is situated on the Bluffs of the Congaree, and used to\nbe celebrated for its delightfully shaded streets, its lovely\nflower-gardens, and the model plantations in its vicinity.\n\nOn the afternoon of the 1st we left Columbia for Charleston, the\nmetropolis of South Carolina, seven miles from the ocean; and after a\njourney of 135 miles, arrived there on the 2nd, at half-past 12 in the\nmiddle of the night. There, on the morning of Sunday the 3rd, Mr. Mueller\npreached at the Citadel Baptist Church, and in the evening at Trinity\nChurch; but in consequence of the rain, which fell heavily all day, the\ncongregations were only small. On the two following evenings he held\nmeetings at the Second Presbyterian Church, addressed the orphans of the\nCharleston Orphan Asylum on the 6th, in the presence of their teachers\nand a number of gentlemen and ladies connected with the Institution, and\non the evening of that day preached at the First Baptist Church. On the\nfollowing evening he held a meeting for Christian Workers, and on the\n8th preached at Morris Street Coloured Baptist Church, with great help\nfrom the Lord, to 1,000 negroes and coloured people, and about 60\nwhites. On the morning of Sunday, the 10th, he preached at the Bethel\nMethodist Church, and in the evening at the Citadel Baptist Church, a\nvery large building, where a union service or mass-meeting was held,\nwhich was crowded to overflowing, most of the churches in the town\nhaving been closed, that their congregations and ministers might be\npresent. On the following morning he addressed a meeting of pastors for\nan hour and 10 minutes, preached in the evening at the Old Bethel Church\nfor coloured people, and on the 12th held a meeting at the Centenary\nChurch, where an immense congregation of negroes and coloured persons\nassembled, many of whom stood in the aisles and outside the doors,\nwhilst numbers were unable to get in.\n\nOn Feb. 13th we left Charleston for Savannah, the chief city of Georgia,\nand travelled all day slowly by \"accommodation train\" through one of the\ngreat American swamps, a morass with stagnant water and luxuriant\nvegetation on each side of the railway.\n\n\"This route lies within a few miles of the coast, and passes through\nmany of the seaside and lowland towns and villages of the State,\nsituated in the midst of the wildest, richest scenery. For miles the\nrails are laid on piles passing through marsh and morass, and crossing\nswift rushing streams; but it is in regions of this nature that the\ngrandest and most tropical vegetation is to be found. In this country of\nmiasmas, fever, and excessive heat, where, in the summer months, few but\nthe negro can exist, the most profuse and abundant vegetation thrives\nluxuriantly. Extensive pine forests, lofty cypresses wreathed with\ngarlands of grey moss, the bay and the laurel covered with the vines of\nthe wild grape or ivy, and immense live oaks, line the road on each\nside. Wild flowers grow in profusion during the spring and summer, and\nthe canebrake rises to a height of ten, twelve, or fifteen feet. In\nthese regions alligators abound, which delight in the muddy, stagnant\nwaters, and find in them a river home.\"\n\nWe passed many negro log-cabins, built where the ground was tolerably\nfirm; but they were wretched-looking habitations, damp and miserable,\nmany of them being mere hovels of a most unhealthy character. Though the\nrice fields, cotton, sugar, and tobacco plantations may be benefited by\na constant supply of moisture, the damp heat produced by the sun's\nscorching rays in summer, as they fall upon this marshy ground, is\nexceedingly unhealthy, and produces yellow fever, which is often most\nfatal in the Southern States.\n\nUpon our arrival at Savannah--a beautiful city with plantations of\norange and lemon trees growing in winter in the open air, and adorned\nwith geraniums, creeping plants and various choice flowers--we accepted\nan invitation to the house of Mr. Charles Green, a Christian merchant;\nand during our short stay were entertained at his mansion most\nhospitably. Whilst there, Mr. Mueller preached at the Baptist,\nIndependent, Presbyterian, and Methodist Episcopal Churches, gave\naddresses to the girls of the Episcopal Orphan Asylum, of Whitefield's\nOrphanage in Georgia, and spoke to the children of the Preventive Home.\nBefore our departure from Savannah, we took drives to Buonaventura\nCemetery, to Plantation, and to Thunderbolt, and particularly noticed\nthe luxuriant, but peculiar-looking, Spanish moss which attaches itself\nto the trunks and branches of the trees, and grows in great profusion\nall through the Southern States. Being of a grey colour, it is unlike\nEuropean moss, and forms a long, deep fringe, a kind of sweeping,\nmournful drapery, which, as it is waved about by the wind, has so\nmelancholy an appearance that it seems appropriate for cemeteries, where\nit is found in great abundance.\n\nOn Feb. 25th, Mr. Mueller gave a farewell address at the Presbyterian\nChurch, and on the 26th we went on board the \"City of Bridgetown,\" an\n\"inland route\" river steamer, in which, with 136 other passengers, we\nsailed (via Brunswick and Fernandina) for Jacksonville, in Florida. By\nthe term \"inland route,\" is meant a voyage down the river Savannah,\nacross lakes, estuaries, and along wide streams, but inside the land\nwhich forms a boundary to the Atlantic Ocean. Our voyage proved,\nhowever, most tedious and intricate; for several times the vessel\ngrounded, and as it was necessary to wait for the tide to rise and set\nher afloat again, great delay and inconvenience were occasioned; but on\nthe afternoon of the 28th, after steaming through a most tortuous\nwater-course, a perfect labyrinth of winding streams, we got safely into\nthe St. John's river, and in the evening reached Jacksonville, after a\nvoyage of 350 miles, which it took 52 hours and a half to accomplish. We\narrived too late, however, for Mr. Mueller to preach that evening, though\nthe service had been advertised. He held meetings therefore in this city\nfive times only, all of which were numerously attended; and at Polk's\nHall, on Sunday evening, March 3rd, there was a union or mass meeting,\nwhere a vast audience assembled, which was said to be the largest\ncongregation ever known in Jacksonville. Here, and in Florida\ngenerally, vegetation was most luxuriant; for, as some parts of the\ncoast are only 130 miles from the West Indies, the climate of this State\nis tropical; and flowers, fruit, and vegetables were in season, that in\nmost other countries can be obtained only in the summer.\n\nOn March 4th, at 3.45 p.m., we left Jacksonville, and travelled all\nnight in a train where the sleeping arrangements were more comfortable\nthan usual. The following day we crossed the Chattahoochee River, and in\nthe course of our journey became interested in a gentleman, very ill in\nconsumption, whose severe cough had reached us often in the night. He\nhad been staying in Florida for the benefit of his health; but, as he\nsaid, \"I can't talk,\" we ventured to hand him a couple of tracts;\n\"Eternity,\" and \"How is it with you?\" which there is reason to believe\nhe read. The train stopped at Dawson, Eufala, and many other places; and\nat 9 o'clock on the evening of the 5th, we arrived at Montgomery, in\nAlabama, after a tedious journey of 483 miles. Here, desiring to get on\nquickly to Mobile (in Alabama) Mr. Mueller preached a few times only;\nand, on the morning of the 9th, we rose at half-past 5, in order to\ncontinue our journey further South. In the course of it we passed\nseveral large cotton plantations, where cotton of the previous year\nstill remained upon the plants; peach trees in full blossom were growing\nwild in great abundance, fir and pine trees by the million lined each\nside of the railway, and occasionally \"turpentine orchards\" containing\nthe fir trees from which turpentine is made, were close at hand. At a\ndistance of about 20 miles from Mobile, we crossed the rivers Alabama\nand Tombigby--fine broad streams, filled with water to the brim--a few\ncreeks, and a great quantity of marshy ground; and afterwards entered\none of the great \"swamps,\" with which the Southern States abound. At\nlength, after 11 hours' slow travelling by \"accommodation train,\" at 7\np.m. we reached Mobile, 180 miles from Montgomery, and were most kindly\nreceived there by Judge Horton and his family, to whose house we went.\nIn this city, Mr. Mueller held a number of meetings, which (for the\nSouthern States) were numerously attended, and had daily happy\nintercourse with Christian friends.\n\nOur stay, however, was but short, for on the morning of March 15th we\nbade them all adieu, and set off for New Orleans, Louisiana, 141 miles\ndistant, where, after stopping at 25 stations, travelling through inlets\nof the Mississippi Sound, much swamp and water, and crossing the Bay of\nSt. Louis (a portion of the Gulf of Mexico) by a railway bridge two\nmiles in length, we arrived at a quarter before nine, on the evening of\nthe same day.\n\nAt New Orleans my husband held many meetings, including services at the\nCanal Street Presbyterian, Carondelet Street, and Methodist Churches; he\npreached also in German, at three different places of worship, and gave\ntwo addresses, one to the 250 coloured students of Leeland College, and\nthe other to the coloured students of Straight University, 215 in\nnumber. New Orleans, which is the chief cotton mart of the world,\ncontains a large Roman Catholic, French, and Spanish population, and is\nsaid to be the most wicked city in the United States. During our visit,\nPopish processions frequently passed along the streets, and little or no\nregard was shown for the Lord's Day, when business was carried on as\nusual. Before our departure we visited the Orange Groves and Lake\nPontchartrain; but with this exception, saw very little of the\nneighbourhood.\n\nOn the afternoon of March 29th we went on board the \"John Scudder,\" a\nlarge river steamer, and at 6 p.m. left New Orleans, and started on a\nvoyage up the Mississippi, for Memphis, Tennessee. The room we occupied\nwas rather large, and was one of a great number of cabins ranged along\nthe sides of a very long saloon, used as a general sitting and\ndining-room by the passengers. It had two berths, six little windows--or\nventilators--close to the ceiling, and two doors, one of which opened\ninto the saloon. The food provided for the passengers was excellent, but\nno drinking water was to be had on board, except the unfiltered water of\nthe Mississippi; and this was so full of impurities, and muddy sediment,\nwhich formed a thick deposit on the bottom of any vessel where it was\nallowed to stand, that we could neither make up our minds to drink it\ncold, nor in the form of tea or coffee, particularly as it was said to\nhave an injurious effect upon the health. We therefore obtained a jug\nfilled with ice, allowed the ice to melt, and after mixing a little wine\nwith the water, to take off the coldness of it, procured a wholesome\npalatable draught. On the evening of March 31st, Mr. Mueller (by\npermission) held a meeting in the saloon, when he addressed the\npassengers, coloured servants, and as many of the ship's company as were\nable to attend; but though there were a few Christians on board who\nappreciated the service, the passengers were chiefly worldly people, who\namused themselves every evening in the saloon with music, singing,\ndancing, and card-playing, from which there was no escape, as in our\ncabin, we could distinctly hear, even if we did not see, all that was\ngoing on. The voyage, however, though slow, was a pleasant one upon the\nwhole. The Mississippi, or \"Father of Waters,\" from its source in\nMinnesota, to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico, is 3160 miles in length;\nbut the _Upper_ Mississippi is considered much more beautiful than the\nlower portion of the river. Whilst on board, Mr. Mueller was occupied a\nfew hours every day in writing the new Report, and on April 3rd, at 6\np.m., we landed at Memphis--situated on one of the Chickasaw Bluffs of\nthe Mississippi--after a voyage of about 800 miles. There we passed the\nnight at an hotel in very _un_comfortable quarters, and, at 11.15 on\nthe morning of the next day, left by rail for St. Louis, Missouri, a\ncity of more than half a million of inhabitants, where, after a journey\nof 327 miles, we arrived at 7.15 a.m. on April 5th, and went immediately\nto the Planters' House.\n\nOn Sunday, April 7th, Mr. Mueller began his work by preaching in the\nmorning at the Second Presbyterian Church, and in the evening at the\nPilgrim Congregational, when, upon each occasion, the audience was\nimmense. On the 8th, he gave an address on prayer at the Methodist\nEpiscopal Church, to crowds of hearers, and preached at Pine Street\nPresbyterian Church on the evening of the 9th. On the 10th and 11th, he\nheld meetings at the Second Baptist and at Lafayette Park Presbyterian\nChurches, and on the 12th addressed an assembly of at least 2,500 at the\nCentenary Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest in the city. On the\n13th, at the German Protestant Orphan Home, nine miles from our hotel,\nhe spoke to 161 orphans in German, in the presence of their teachers and\nother persons; on Sunday morning the 14th preached at Dr. Brookes's\nChurch, Walnut Street, on the second coming of Christ, and on the\nevening of that day, at the Mercantile Library Hall, addressed a mass\nmeeting of Germans, about 2,000 in number. On the morning of the 15th,\nhe attended a meeting for pastors--when he spoke to 150 for an hour and\n20 minutes--and in the evening preached at a German Church, at the\ncorner of Autumn and Tenth Streets. On the 16th, a meeting for Christian\nWorkers was held at the First Presbyterian Church, when he addressed a\ncongregation of 1,200, and on Wednesday evening, April 17th, preached a\nfarewell sermon at Dr. Brookes's Church, from the Epistle of Jude,\nverses 20-21, with great power and solemnity. Throughout the whole of\nour stay at St. Louis the meetings were exceedingly large, on week\nevenings as well as on Sundays; and the interest and attention\nmanifested throughout the whole series of services were most\nencouraging.\n\nOn April 18th we rose at half past 5, and commended ourselves to the\nLord in prayer for the long journey to San Francisco--undertaken after\nmuch waiting upon God--before us; and at half past 8 left St. Louis in a\nPullman's car. In the course of the morning we crossed the Missouri,\nand, the weather being lovely, with vegetation in perfection, the\njourney was delightful. In the evening we alighted at the supper station\nto partake of some refreshment, and at 9 o'clock retired to rest. The\nlittle room we occupied was comfortable, and the sleeping arrangements\nwere excellent. Our windows remained shut, but as the six ventilators\nabove them were left open, there was thorough ventilation; and, after\npassing a good night, at 9 o'clock the next morning we reached Council\nBluffs. There, after breakfast, at half past 9, we got into the same\ntrain; but, having to take seats in one of the other carriages until\nthe Pullman cars were unlocked, a multitude of emigrants--who were\npouring into California at the rate of 1,000 per day--soon surrounded\nus, amongst whom we distributed some tracts. At Omaha, Nebraska (476\nmiles from St. Louis, where the Union Pacific Railway begins), we\narrived in half an hour; and, after waiting three hours at the station,\ngot into another train, without emigrants, and there engaged a second\nlittle private room. At 1 o'clock our journey was resumed, and soon\nafter leaving Omaha we entered upon the prairies, which consist of\nmillions of acres of wild, barren, uncultivated land, stretching away\nfor hundreds of miles in all directions, with scarcely a bush, tree, or\nplant of any size upon them, and covered only with dry, short, stunted\ngrass. Throughout this district (appropriately called the \"American\nDesert\") the cold must often be intense, for there is no shelter for\nmany miles, and nothing to break the force and severity of winter gales.\nDuring this portion of our journey the train advanced only at the rate\nof 15 miles an hour; for, though travelling _apparently_ over immense\nlevel plains, we were gradually ascending some thousands of feet above\nthe level of the sea. On April 20th, at noon, the engine got out of\norder, and as we and all the other passengers alighted from the train,\nthere was further opportunity of distributing tracts and of surveying\nthe immense plains around. Some idea could be formed also of the\nwilderness through which the Children of Israel passed, on their way to\nCanaan, the promised land. Soon after continuing our journey, the\nelevation became greater, and quantities of snow in large patches were\nseen lying on the ground. Just before reaching Archer, distant ranges of\nthe Rocky Mountains became visible, having peaks covered with perpetual\nsnow; but, in consequence of defective power in our locomotive,\nCheyenne, the dinner station (a town 5,931 feet above the level of the\nsea, consisting chiefly of detached wooden houses,) was not reached\nuntil 4 p.m., when the train drew up at a short distance from the\nInter-Ocean Hotel. After leaving Cheyenne, numerous snow sheds were\npassed, erected at intervals to protect the railway from great snow\ndrifts in heavy winter storms; and during the night we ascended to\nSherman, (8,235 feet above the level of the sea, a point more elevated\nthan the summit of the Rigi, and the highest railway station in the\nworld) where the cold became severe, and the snow in places was several\nfeet deep.\n\nOn April 21st all through the day we continued to travel in the midst of\na wild, barren, desolate region, with long ranges of lofty, snow-capped\nmountains in the distance, and snow in great abundance everywhere. There\nwas neither foliage nor vegetation, and though the railway carriages\nwere warmed, the cold outside was piercing. For several hours we passed\nrepeatedly under snow sheds, of which there were considerable numbers;\nand, in consequence of our detention on the previous day, arrived at\nthe breakfast station very late. In the afternoon, at 3 o'clock,\nEvanstone, 6,870 feet above the level of the sea, was reached, and\ntowards the evening we descended gradually towards the valleys, where\nthe wild and desolate character of the scenery gave way to grandeur and\nmagnificence. At Ogden (35 miles only from Salt Lake City, where the\nUnion Pacific Railway terminates and the Central Pacific begins) we\narrived at 7 o'clock, and after waiting there an hour and a quarter,\nchanged trains; but were obliged to be satisfied then merely with a\n\"section,\" as the only little private room in the next train had been\nengaged. On April 22nd we rose at half past 5, at 9 a.m. reached Elko,\nNevada, 5,650 feet above the level of the sea, and afterwards travelled\nacross the American alkali desert, consisting of vast plains covered\nwith sage brush, bounded by long, snowy mountain ranges. At Wells, an\nelevation of only 5,030 feet above the level of the sea, where the train\nstopped for half an hour, we observed groups of Indians, wrapped either\nin scarlet blankets or in striped woollen mantles dyed with brilliant\ncolours. They wore curious looking hats, trimmed with feathers and wide\nribbons, and had their faces painted with patches of vermilion. At some\nof the stations a few Chinese also were standing about, with their hair\nplaited in long tails, reaching nearly to the heels. At Bewawe and\nBattle Mountain there were more Indians, and towards evening we reached\nWinnemucca, where several copper-coloured men and women gathered round\nthe train. On the morning of April 23rd, at a very early hour, we\nentered California, and then the ascent of the Sierra Nevada Mountains\nbecame so steep that two locomotives were employed to draw the train up\nhill. At short intervals strong wooden snow sheds, like tunnels, had\nbeen erected, as a protection to the railway against injury from heavy\nsnow drifts; but they could be regarded only as necessary evils, on\naccount of the interruption they occasioned to the possibility of seeing\neverything around. At 6 o'clock we reached Summit Station, 7,042 feet\nabove the level of the sea, an elevation to which the train had been\ngradually mounting in the night, and here a magnificent prospect of\nindescribable grandeur suddenly burst upon our view. Far above the\nstation innumerable mountain peaks were towering towards the sky; the\nsun, which shone brilliantly, lighted up the snow to a whiteness that\nwas dazzling; deep abysses, chasms, and ravines surrounded us; millions\nof pine and fir-trees were growing up the mountains' sides; and\nthousands of feet far down below, valleys clothed with the richest\nverdure, added beauty to the scene.\n\nDuring the construction of this wonderful mountain railway, it is said\nthat the sum spent upon blasting-powder alone amounted to a million\ndollars. At 8 o'clock, the door of our compartment was thrown open, and\nthe conductor called out, \"Cape Horn!\" when all the passengers jumped up\nimmediately and looked intently out of window, for the train was\ntravelling slowly along the very edge of a precipice, 2,450 feet in\nheight; a point from which an extensive landscape of great beauty could\nbe seen extending far and wide. After leaving \"Cape Horn,\" we crossed a\ntimber bridge, erected over a portion of the valley, proceeded to\n\"Emigrant's Gap,\" thence to Colfax, and afterwards descended the\nmountain with a rush, further on into California, where the weather was\nwarm, and the country looked most beautiful, the trees being covered\nwith foliage, and the ground highly cultivated everywhere. For many\nmiles we passed rich meadow land, and numbers of large trees; the fields\nwere covered with grass, intermingled with brilliant masses of wild\nflowers; lupines, eschcoltzias, wild roses, geraniums, etc., were\nflourishing in many places, and millions of Californian poppies of an\nintense yellow, deepening into orange colour, outshone all the rest. An\nAmerican gentleman once said: \"I never saw flowers till I saw them in\nCalifornia.\" At half past 10 we arrived at Sacramento, and, after\nremaining there an hour, travelled all day through a beautiful part of\nthe country, favoured with fine summer weather. In the course of the\nafternoon Livermore and Niles were reached, the train stopped a few\nminutes at San Jose, and finally we arrived at Oakland, a suburb of San\nFrancisco, where two gentlemen entered the carriage who welcomed us\ncordially, and earnestly invited my husband to preach there. At 5.35 we\nalighted at the station, where two brethren were kindly waiting to\nreceive us, with whom we went on board the \"El Capitan,\" a large ferry\nsteamer; and, after crossing the Bay, landed at San Francisco, where our\nfriends conducted us to the rooms they had engaged at the Palace Hotel.\n\nThus ended our journey of 2,390 miles (from St. Louis), accomplished in\nsix days and five nights, the longest railway journey we had ever taken\nat one time; and truly thankful to the Lord were we for His protecting\ncare during our travels, and for the comforts of the resting place now\nprovided for us.\n\nOn the evening of Friday, April 26th, at the lecture room of the Calvary\nPresbyterian Church, Mr. Mueller gave his first address at San Francisco;\nand, after the meeting was over, James Wilkinson, an orphan formerly on\nAshley Down, came up to speak to him. He had been living in the United\nStates for fifteen years, and was not only converted himself, but had\nbeen used by the Lord as an instrument of great blessing to the souls of\nothers. On Sunday morning, April 28th, Mr. Mueller preached at the\nTabernacle Presbyterian Church, Tyler Street, to about 1,800 people; in\nthe evening he addressed nearly 2,000 at the same church; and on the\n29th preached at the Metropolitan Temple to a congregation of 800.\n\nOn the 30th, a gentleman called in his carriage and took us for a drive\nto Cliff House, seven miles distant, near the Golden Gate, a strait two\nmiles wide, which leads from the Bay into the Pacific Ocean. Many years\nago the spot on which San Francisco now stands was covered with hills\nformed of sand, blown there in immense quantities from the shores of the\nPacific by the strong winds which constantly prevail; but now a\n\"magnificent city\" (as some call it) has been erected upon the site that\nformerly was nothing but a barren waste. Upon arriving at the coast of\nthe Pacific, we took a walk upon the beach, a vast region composed\nentirely of sand, which, as no rain falls in California from the middle\nof April until October, becomes extremely troublesome, because it is\nblown inland in prodigious quantities for miles by the trade winds, for\nwhich that locality is noted. During the winter rain falls every day;\nbut frost, except in the mountains and northern portions of the State\n(generally speaking), is unknown. During our walk the tide was nearly\nhigh; but when low, beautiful shells in great variety are found upon\nthese shores. After walking some time upon the sands, our friend\nconducted us to Cliff House, an hotel built upon a high rock overlooking\nthe ocean, where, from a balcony, we had an opportunity of observing the\nsea-lions, by which the rocks that stand out in the sea are frequented.\nHundreds of these curious, amphibious creatures were there, with their\npointed heads, and bodies shining with salt water. Some were basking in\nthe sunshine on dry portions of the cliffs, others were plunging into\nthe sea, several were climbing up sloping places on the rocks, and\nothers were barking discordantly. Soon after our arrival at Cliff House,\na young waiter introduced himself as the brother of Emma Evans, one of\nthe orphans formerly on Ashley Down. He knew we were in the United\nStates, and having often heard Mr. Mueller preach in Bristol years ago,\nrecognized him with great delight, and before our departure presented us\nwith a beautiful bouquet of flowers, as a little token of his gratitude.\n\nAfter our return to San Francisco, on the evening of that day, my\nhusband preached at the First Congregational Church, to a large\nassembly, with great help and earnestness. Amongst the congregation were\nsome Chinese, who occupied front seats near the pulpit. On the afternoon\nof May 1st we visited China Town, situated in a part of San Francisco\ncalled Sacramento, which is thickly peopled with Chinese, where\nthousands of them live. The ground floors of many of their houses\ncontain shops filled with curious and costly articles, manufactured by\nthe natives of China and Japan; but most of the Chinese live down in\nplaces like cellars underneath their shops, where they dwell crowded\ntogether, smoking and eating quantities of opium. On the evening of that\nday, Mr. Mueller preached at Broadway German Methodist Episcopal Church,\nwhen he addressed a large number of Germans in their own language; and\nthe following evening held a meeting at a church in Howard Street. On\nMay 3rd, we walked to the top of a hill not far distant, and from it\nlooked down upon the Bay, and upon San Francisco.\n\n\"The first house ever built there was in the year 1835, which was the\ncommencement of a village, afterwards called 'Yerba Buena,' or good\nherb, from a medicinal plant growing in great abundance in the vicinity.\nAt the present time, great numbers of eucalyptus trees flourish in the\nneighbourhood; which, from their sanitary properties, are considered a\ngreat blessing to the people. In 1847 the name of the city was changed\nto San Francisco; in 1848 (the year that gold was first discovered in\nCalifornia), the population had grown to 1,000; and from this small\nbeginning it steadily increased, until in 1870 it reached 149,482. Now,\nthe city contains about 256,000 inhabitants, including 50,000 Chinese,\nand many thousands of negroes.\"\n\nOn the evening of that day, Mr. Mueller preached at the Calvary\nPresbyterian Church, to about 1,200 people, when he spoke for nearly an\nhour and a half, with great power and earnestness. On Sunday, May 5th,\nhe preached in the morning at the First Baptist Church, and in the\nevening at the Calvary Presbyterian, from Romans viii. 28-30, when the\nChurch (a very large one) was crowded to the utmost, the body of the\nbuilding and the galleries being so thronged, that numbers who could not\ngain admittance went away. His appeal to believers, and words of warning\nto the unconverted, were of a weighty, solemn character. Several\ngentlemen and ladies occupied seats upon the platform, and the steps\nleading up to it were filled with hearers. On the 6th, at 2 in the\nafternoon, he attended a meeting of pastors belonging to the city and\nthe State (some of whom came a distance of 20, 30, and 50 miles in order\nto be present at the meeting), when he addressed about 150 of his\nbrethren in the ministry for an hour and 20 minutes. In the evening at\nthe Tabernacle, Tyler Street, he preached a farewell sermon. The\ncongregation was large; numbers took leave of us as they left the\nbuilding, and a beautiful bouquet of choice flowers was handed in as a\nparting gift by a gentleman who once lived in England.\n\nOn May 8th we left San Francisco and went to Oakland, where Mr. Mueller\npreached in the evening at the First Baptist Church. On the 9th he\naddressed 1,000 people at the First Congregational Church, and on the\n10th preached to about the same number at the First Methodist Church. On\nthe 11th a gentleman took us in his carriage to visit the University of\nCalifornia, six miles distant, which stands upon high ground, commanding\na distant view of the Bay, Government Island, Goat Island, etc.; but we\ncould see only the exterior of the buildings, as they were closed to\nvisitors on Saturdays. On our return we drove through Oakland, a name\nderived from the fine groves of \"live oaks,\" in the midst of which the\ntown was originally built. These trees are not ornamental only, but\nthey serve to screen the place from the fierce gales that blow through\nthe \"Golden Gap\" in summer, to the force of which Oakland is\nparticularly exposed; for the climate of San Francisco and the\nneighbourhood has this peculiarity, that in summer the strongest and\nmost trying winds prevail, though, at all times of the year, trade winds\nfrom the Pacific set in every morning at 11 o'clock, and last for about\nfive hours. During our drive, the only discomfort was the dust, which,\nfrom the lack of rain in this country, soon becomes extremely\ntroublesome; and the scorching heat of the sun would have been\noverpowering, if it had not been tempered by breezes from the Bay. On\nSunday morning, May 12th, Mr. Mueller preached at the First Methodist\nEpiscopal Church, from 1st Chron. 4-10, to a large, attentive audience,\nand, when the service was over, Sheang Chack, a Chinese convert, who\nlabours amongst his own countrymen, came to shake hands with us.\n\nIn the evening my husband preached at the First Presbyterian Church, a\nlarge building in the shape of an amphitheatre, where there was a \"Union\nService,\" all the principal churches having been closed, that their\ncongregations might attend this meeting. He spoke for an hour from\nLamentations iii. 22-26; but the crowd was so great that hundreds were\nunable to obtain admittance. After the service, a pastor said--\"We have\nhad a glorious meeting.\" On the afternoon of the 13th, Mr. Mueller\naddressed the young ladies at Mills' Seminary, six miles from Oakland;\nin the evening he preached in German at the Methodist Episcopal Church;\nand on the following day attended a Sunday School State Convention at\nSan Francisco, where he addressed many hundreds of Christian Workers for\nan hour and a quarter.\n\nEarly on the morning of May 15th we left by rail for Santa Cruz, in\nSouth California, on the Pacific coast, 120 miles from San Francisco;\nand after a tedious journey reached our destination at 4 o'clock. Rooms\nhad been engaged for us at Pope's Cottage, a boarding-house in a lovely\nsituation on a hill, about a mile from the sea shore; and in the evening\nat 8, Mr. Mueller preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church, where we\nwere heartily welcomed both by the pastor and the congregation. On the\nfollowing evening, he held another meeting, also at the same church.\n\nOn the 17th we went by rail to Felton, seven miles from Santa Cruz, to\nsee some of the \"_Big Trees_,\" for which California is celebrated; and\nafter crossing a rustic bridge and passing through a shady glen, reached\na secluded spot, where the large trees became more immense than usual.\nSome of them are of gigantic growth, and shoot up their tall, straight\ntrunks, like towering masts into the sky. The largest of these trees is\n62 feet in circumference; its height was originally 371 feet, but the\nupper portion of the trunk having been blown off, its present height is\nonly 296 feet. It is a kind of cedar, called the \"red wood,\" belonging\nto the \"Sequoia Gigantea\" species; but in other parts of California,\nthere are \"Big Trees\" considerably larger than the ones we saw. At\nMariposa, for instance, the \"Grizzly Giant\" is 107 feet in\ncircumference, 34 in diameter, and 400 high; and the first branch\n(nearly 200 feet from the ground) is 8 feet in diameter. In the evening,\nafter our return, Mr. Mueller preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church,\nfor the third and last time at Santa Cruz, as, in consequence of other\nengagements, we were unable to prolong our stay.\n\nOn May 30th, at 9.30 a.m., we set off, via Pajaro, for San Jose\n(pronounced _Yozee_); and, after a journey by rail of 70 miles, arrived\nthere in the afternoon at half-past 2. At the Auzierais Hotel, the\nfollowing letter from a pastor at Oakland, was awaiting our arrival:--\n\n                                     \"Oakland, May 15th, 1878.\n\n\"DEAR BROTHER,--I have just returned from our prayer meeting, and it may\nbe a source of gratitude and encouragement to you to know, that very\nmany testimonies were given to the great benefit received from your\nministrations here. In fact there is evidence on every hand, that the\nseed you have sown, has taken root in many hearts. The faith of God's\nchildren has been greatly strengthened, and principles of divine truth\nand Christian life have been received through your teaching, which will\nbe of great good for _many many_ years to come. I rejoice with hundreds\nof others here, that God has led you to these shores, to teach us the\nway of God more perfectly. May the Lord wonderfully sustain you and your\ngood wife, in your labours from place to place. You will have the\nprayers of a host of brethren beloved, who will henceforth have a great\ninterest in you personally, and a still deeper interest in the cause of\nour dear Lord which you are labouring to promote.--With much love and\ngratitude for your faithful services, I am\n\n                                  \"YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST,\n                                            * * * *.\"\n\nThat night at 8 o'clock, Mr. Mueller preached for the first time at San\nJose, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, where, though it was Saturday\nevening, there was a large congregation. He preached also on the morning\nand evening of Sunday the 19th, to crowded audiences at the same Church.\nAt the close of the latter meeting, numbers of friends came forward to\nshake hands with us, who, in the warmest terms, expressed delight at our\nvisit to their city. \"San Jose is in the middle of the Santa Clara\nValley; and, in consequence of its healthful climate, which is a medium\nbetween the cold winds of the coast, and the hot valleys of the\ninterior, is much resorted to by invalids. One street is occupied\nentirely by French inhabitants, and another quarter only by Chinese.\"\nDuring our stay there, on May 20th, we took a drive through Alameda\nValley, to Santa Clara, a beautiful little town three miles distant,\nwhich contains several Churches, Schools, and the Pacific University.\nHere Mr. Mueller preached twice; and besides the inhabitants of Santa\nClara, several persons from San Jose came over to attend the meetings;\nbut we remained one night only, and late on the evening of the 21st\nreturned to San Jose.\n\nThe next morning a letter arrived from San Francisco, written by a lady,\nwho earnestly commended her only daughter to our prayers. This young\nperson was converted at the age of 15, but two years afterwards became a\nprey to the delusions of Spiritualism, to which she clung tenaciously\nfor nine years. At San Francisco, however, she heard Mr. Mueller preach\nseveral times, and was so impressed by one sermon in particular, that\nher poor mother fully hoped she would be restored to soundness in the\nfaith. She wrote--\"You are the first person who has found the way to her\nheart for these nine years. She crossed the Bay last Sunday morning to\nhear you, and says she would not have lost that sermon for 100 dollars.\nOh! _how much_ I wish you could see her! but, as you cannot, what I want\nis, that you will make her case a special subject of prayer. She is\ndearer to me than my own life, and I would be willing to die a thousand\ndeaths to save her. Oh! help by your prayers.--Mrs. ----.\"\n\nEarly on the morning of May 22nd, we went by rail to Stockton, 70 miles\nfrom San Jose, where, at 3 in the afternoon, Mr. Mueller addressed 22\npastors, and about 130 other Christian workers for an hour and ten\nminutes, and, during our short stay, held two other meetings. At\nStockton the heat became oppressive, and walking out of doors in the\nmiddle of the day was given up. There, too, at night we had terrible\nconflict with the mosquitos; but though we killed them by the score,\ncould do very little in the way of exterminating the foe, so that our\nvisit to Stockton was marked by a regular mosquito war. Our rest at\nnight was so disturbed, that we were scarcely fit for travelling; but,\nhaving been repeatedly advised by several Christian friends, on no\naccount to leave California without visiting the celebrated Yosemite\nValley, in that State; and as my husband desired to have a little break\nfor a few days, after so much constant preaching; on May 24th, at 8 a.m.\nwe left by train for Milton, 30 miles from Stockton. There, a large,\nold-fashioned conveyance, combining coach and omnibus together, was\nwaiting for the passengers, into which we, and several others stepped;\nand--drawn by four horses--were driven off towards the Sierra Nevada\nmountains. For some miles our road lay across an open plain, without\nhouses, where the scanty vegetation was nearly burned up by the sun's\nscorching rays, and what little wind there was resembled a sirocco; but,\nafter a drive of fourteen miles, we arrived at Copperopolis--so called\nfrom the quantity of copper ore found there. At one o'clock, after\nchanging horses, we left Copperopolis--reached Chinese Camp, eighteen\nmiles further, at 4; and, after getting into a smaller conveyance, at 6\no'clock continued our journey, with only one gentleman passenger besides\nourselves. Though often told that travelling by Californian stage-waggon\nwould prove an adventure _never_ to be forgotten, scarcely were we\nprepared for the unpleasant jolting that now awaited us. Our coachman\ndrove furiously. Rough and smooth, hill and dale, all were alike to him.\nNow we were driven over one great stone, and then came into collision\nwith another; and as for a drag, going down hill, such a thing was never\nthought of. The man was doubtless an experienced driver, or at any rate\nhe was a fearless one; but, being ourselves sober-minded persons,\nunaccustomed to such \"go ahead\" proceedings, we should have been\nthankful to take things more quietly; and besides this, desired greatly\nto reach our journey's end, with no bruises and without broken bones.\nThrough the Lord's kindness, however, we reached Priest's Hotel (on a\nhigh hill, twelve miles from Chinese Camp) in safety, where we alighted\nfor the night; and, after a journey of eleven hours and a half, retired\nimmediately to rest. Our room was small, and reminded us of the little\napartment we occupied at the Hospice on Mount St. Gothard, Switzerland,\nbut it was comfortable, and not a single mosquito was there to disturb\nour night's repose.\n\nThe next morning we rose punctually at 4, and at 5 our journey in\nanother stage waggon, drawn by five horses, was continued. The early\nmorning air was cool and pleasant, and the sky unclouded; but our new\ndriver urged on the horses also to their utmost speed, and, after\nrattling up and down steep declivities, and galloping along rugged\nroads, we reached the end of a stage of about 18 miles, and got into\nanother waggon. Our next coachman, happily, was of a different mould,\nfor _he_ conducted us slowly and carefully along. At 12 we reached the\ndinner station, and at 1 set off again in another waggon, with five\nfresh horses. At 3 o'clock we alighted at some \"Big Trees,\" the largest\nof which was 66 feet in circumference, and 420 feet in height; and,\nthrough the trunk of a tree partially burned down, a road was being\nmade, wide enough for two carriages side by side to be driven between\nthe outside portions of the stump. After leaving the \"Big Trees,\" our\njourney was continued, and, having gradually all the morning been going\nup hill, an elevation of about 8,000 feet above the level of the sea was\nshortly reached, where much snow lay upon the ground. At about 4 o'clock\nwe began gradually to descend into the Valley; and, as the waggon was\nslowly driven down hill, the wonders of the great Yosemite (pronounced\nYozemitty) at every turn broke in upon us. Stupendous perpendicular\nprecipices, as we advanced, reared their gigantic summits, like enormous\nwalls into the sky; the Bridal Veil Waterfall, with its rainbow hues,\nlooked beautiful; whole ranges of rocky peaks and towering heights were\nseen; and one Cataract succeeded another, until at last, soon after 6\no'clock, we drove up to Barnard's Hotel, exactly opposite the Falls of\nthe Yosemite.\n\nThe next morning (Sunday, May 26th) Mr. Mueller preached in the large\ndining-room of the hotel, where he addressed the visitors of the house,\nand of the two other hotels in the Valley. A gentleman from San\nFrancisco, another from the Eastern States, a lawyer from Washington,\ntwo gentlemen from England, some ladies, and a number of other persons\nformed the congregation. After the service we conversed with several,\nand distributed little books and tracts amongst them, which were\ngratefully accepted. Being without hymn books, there was no singing; and\nour only music was the thunder of the Cataract close by.\n\nThe next morning we surveyed the \"Falls of the Yosemite, three in one,\nformed by a stream of water which takes a leap of 1,600 feet from the\ntop of the rock into a vast basin of rock, where, gathering strength, it\nagain leaps forth a distance of 434 feet, and, falling between the North\nDome and the Three Brothers, rebounds, and takes its final plunge of 600\nfeet into the Valley. Twenty-four thousand gallons of water roll over\nthe edge of the cliff every minute; and probably no Falls in the world\ncan be compared with these in _height_.\" During our brief sojourn in the\nYosemite, we visited all its chief points of interest. \"This Valley is\non the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas, and is a narrow gorge about\n10 miles long and half a mile in width, enclosed within gigantic granite\nprecipices like monstrous walls, which rise, almost unbroken and\nperpendicular, to a height of from 4,000 to 6,000 feet above the green,\nquiet vale beneath. Its most remarkable features are its perpendicular\nwalls, and their great height, as compared with the narrow width of the\nValley. In the spring and early summer it is one vast flower garden, and\nplants, shrubs, and flowers, of every hue, cover the ground as with a\ncarpet. El Capitan is the most prominent attraction it contains, which,\nthough not as high as some of its giant neighbours, is remarkable for\nits isolation, height, prodigious breadth, bold shape, and defiant\nattitude, as it stands up like an enormous wall, the Great Chief of the\nYosemite. It is 3,300 feet above the Valley,--which is itself 4,000 feet\nabove the level of the sea--is solid, massive, seamless, thousands of\nmillions of tons in weight; and its grey granite sides, destitute of\nvegetation, are perpendicular.\"[B] The Bridal Veil Waterfall leaps a\ndistance of 940 feet into the Valley, and a beautiful rainbow was\nproduced by the sun's rays as they fell upon it. From Artists' Point and\nInspiration Point, a fine general view of the Yosemite is obtained; and\nthree miles off is Mirror Lake, at the foot of, and between the North\nand South Dome, which reflects every rock, ledge, and mountain like a\nmirror. The Cathedral Rocks, the Sentinel Rock, the Three Brothers,\netc., also form a portion of the mountain scenery. The Vernal Fall (or\nCataract of Diamonds) and the Nevada Falls, in wild, romantic\nsituations, are also grand and beautiful; but, as the wonders of this\nneighbourhood, if entered into fully, would require a volume, a minute\ndescription of them cannot be attempted.\n\n[B] \"Nordhoff's California.\"\n\nOn May 29th we rose at half past 4, and at 6, after taking outside\nseats, started, with ten other passengers, in a stage waggon, drawn by\nfive horses, on our return journey. Our drive _up_ the mountains, which\nwas slow and gradual, occupied several hours; but in the afternoon we\nbegan to descend them on the other side, when the road became wider and\nthe route less solitary, and at 4 o'clock a cart approached, in which a\nman and woman were seated. They drew up on one side of the road to let\nus pass, when, just as our waggon reached the spot, the woman stood up\nand eagerly called out, \"Is that George Mueller?\" \"It is,\" was the reply.\n\"Then I _must_ shake hands with you, Sir. I have read your 'Life of\nTrust,' and it has been a _great blessing_ to my soul.\" With this the\ngood woman leaned forward and stretched out her hand; we shook hands\nalso with her husband; but who they were, and whence they came, we knew\nnot, nor was there any time to ask. Her last words were, \"Pray for me!\"\nAfter changing horses twice, towards evening we reached a district upon\nlevel ground, which had been cut up into a vast number of furrows and\nchannels for gold digging, where hundreds of acres had been cleared\ncompletely of the precious metal. At 6 o'clock we reached Priest's\nHotel, and were afterwards driven at a rapid rate down the steep hill\nclose to it. A ferry boat then conveyed us across the Tuama River whilst\nseated in the waggon; the horses waded through Wood's Creek, and at last\nwe reached the Garret House, Chinese Camp, where at half past 7 we\nalighted for the night. The next day we rose at half past 3, and at a\nquarter before 5 were again \"en route.\" At the Union Hotel,\nCopperopolis, we arrived in two hours and three-quarters, and at half\npast 10 reached Milton, from which place we went on immediately by rail\nto Stockton, where our luggage (which had been telegraphed for) was sent\nto meet us at the station.\n\nAt a quarter past 12 on the same day (May 30th) we left for Sacramento,\nthe capital of California, 48 miles from Stockton, where Mr. Mueller\npreached at one of the Churches in the evening to about 1,000 persons.\nThe next morning, at 10 o'clock, he held another meeting, and in the\nevening preached, for the third and last time, at Sacramento to a very\nlarge audience.\n\nOn June 1st, at 2 p.m., we set off by the Central Pacific Railway for\nSalt Lake City; on the 2nd distributed little books and tracts amongst\nthe passengers, by whom the train was crowded; and at 8 a.m., on June\n3rd, reached Ogden, where, branching off for Salt Lake City, the\ncapital of Utah--1,068 miles West of Omaha, and 916 East of San\nFrancisco--we arrived at 11.40 the same morning. \"It lies in a great\nvalley, extending close to the Wahsatch Mountains on the North, with\nmore than 100 miles of plains stretching towards the South; beyond\nwhich, in the distance, rise snow-covered mountains, the highest of\nwhich is 11,400 feet above the level of the sea. The waters of the Great\nSalt Lake are _so_ salt, that no living creature can exist in them. The\ncity covers an area of nine square miles, its streets--or roads--are\nlong and very wide; and, as each dwelling has a garden, or orchard, the\nwhole place looks like one large plantation.\" In the evening, at the\nCongregational Church, Mr. Mueller preached the gospel in this city\n(which is the great stronghold of Mormonism), in the plainest, clearest,\nmost decided manner; and on the following day had interviews with\nseveral Christians.\n\nBefore our departure we visited the great Mormon Tabernacle, said to\nhold 13,000 people. It is of wood, and has 46 pillars of red sandstone,\nwith an immense dome resting on them like a roof; but it did not look\nlarge enough to contain more than from 9,000 to 10,000 at the utmost.\nLion House, the former residence of Brigham Young, was also pointed out.\nHis body lies buried in a miserable, neglected piece of ground--a sort\nof back yard--and his grave is covered by a large, flat stone, bearing\nan inscription; but what the epitaph upon it was, we did not care to\nascertain. The residences of his 18 wives are also in the city. From\nCamp Douglas, a military station which stands upon an eminence outside\nthe town, Salt Lake City appears embowered in trees, and little more\nthan the roofs of the houses are visible.\n\nIn the evening Mr. Mueller preached at the Methodist Church, where he\naddressed a large congregation, including several Mormons; and after the\nservice conversed with many of the hearers. Having been told that his\nministry was more needed at Salt Lake City, than at almost any other\nplace in the _world_, he greatly regretted being unable to hold other\nmeetings; but as our time was limited, and engagements had been made for\nother places, we could not possibly remain. The morning of June 5th,\ntherefore, was fixed upon for our departure, when we rose at a quarter\nbefore 5, and at 7 o'clock left by train for Ogden, 35 miles distant,\nwhence, after engaging a \"section\" in a Pullman's carriage, we set off,\nat 10, by the Union Pacific Railway, for Omaha.\n\nThe train (a very long one) was full of passengers, and, when seated in\nthe carriage, we heard that a gentleman, an invalid, had died suddenly\nthe night before, whilst travelling on the Central Pacific Railway.\nAfter he had retired to his berth, a violent fit of coughing came on,\nwhich occasioned the rupture of a blood vessel, and in three minutes he\nwas dead. He was not accompanied by any relative or friend. Some\nrailway officials carried his body immediately into the smoking\ncompartment; but though the circumstance was concealed from the other\npassengers as much as possible, the sad event soon became generally\nknown. On the 6th we breakfasted at Rock Creek; reached Summit House,\nSherman, 8,235 feet above the level of the sea, at half-past one; dined\nat Cheyenne; and, after travelling for some hours, reached the prairies\non which there were a few wild antelopes and immense herds of cattle,\nfollowed by men on horseback keeping them together. At 2 o'clock, on\nJune 7th, we reached Tremont, and at 4.30 arrived at Omaha, a journey of\n1,032 miles from Ogden. At a quarter before 5 our journey was continued,\nwhen, after crossing the Missouri, we went on to Council Bluffs, and\nthere got into a train with an hotel car attached to it, containing a\nkitchen and a dining-room. On June 8th we rose early, breakfasted at 7\nin the dining-room, reached Davenport at 11, and, after crossing the\nMississippi, arrived at Rock Island, the other side of the river. Later\nin the day we crossed the Illinois, and at 4 in the afternoon arrived at\nChicago, after a journey of 503 miles from Omaha.\n\nOn Sunday morning (the 9th) Mr. Mueller preached at the First\nCongregational Church, to about 1,500 people; and in the evening held a\nmeeting at Mr. Moody's Tabernacle, which seats 3,000. It contained an\nimmense audience, and numbers--including the choir--were on the\nplatform \"Hold the fort, for I am coming,\" was sung with great spirit\nat the opening of the service, the vast audience joining heartily in the\nchorus; and after prayer and the reading of the Scriptures, my husband\nspoke for an hour with much help and earnestness. When the meeting was\nover, William Howell, an orphan, formerly on Ashley Down, who left in\n1860, came up to shake hands with us. He was delighted to meet his early\nfriend and benefactor.\n\nOn the following afternoon, Mr. Mueller spoke at Farwell Hall for an hour\nand a quarter to an audience of about 2,500, including many pastors;\nafter the meeting we shook hands with multitudes, amongst whom were two\nmore Orphans, formerly on Ashley Down, and on the morning of the 11th,\nwe took a drive with some friends through Chicago, when the scene of the\ngreat conflagration of October, 1871, was pointed out.\n\n\"It had its origin in a small wooden barn or cow-shed, in the Western\ndistrict of the city, and, the fire gradually increasing, the flames,\nfanned by a strong westerly wind, at last raged like a furnace, sweeping\neverything before them; so that stone, iron, brick, and other hard\nsubstances were burned up like chaff, the intensity of the heat being\nindescribable. From the very outset the fire had been completely beyond\nthe control of any human agency, and it was only after it had raged with\nthe utmost fury for upwards of four and twenty hours, that a great storm\nprovidentially drenched the city, and stopped the progress of the\nflames. The number of buildings destroyed was 17,450, and 98,500 persons\nwere rendered homeless; but the hearts of millions were touched by the\ncatastrophe, and from all parts of the world contributions for the\nrelief of the sufferers were sent in. Three millions and a half of\ndollars promptly came to hand, and were the means (under God) of saving\nChicago from the horrors which usually follow such an awful calamity.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of that day, Mr. Mueller preached again at Farwell Hall;\nand in the evening we attended a \"reception,\" at a gentleman's house,\nwhere about 50 Christian friends had been invited to meet us. On the\nmorning of the 12th my husband addressed about 200 pastors and ministers\nfor an hour and a quarter; and in a note from a hearer received\nafterwards the writer said,--\"The meeting this morning was one of\n_power_. I do not know of better days in the churches and in Farwell\nHall than these. The witness our Lord has sent by Mr. Mueller is one of\nour greatest blessings.\" In the evening my husband preached at Dr.\nGibson's Church from the Epistle of Jude, verses 20, 21, and on the\nfollowing morning spoke (for the last time at Chicago) at Farwell Hall,\non the Second Coming of Christ, to nearly 2,000 people, a subject which\nled many to inquire about this truth, who afterwards obtained light\nrespecting it.\n\nIn the afternoon at 5 o'clock, we left by rail for Cleveland, Ohio, 353\nmiles from Chicago; travelled along the shores of Lake Michigan--a\ngreat inland sea, 500 miles in length, and from 90 to 100 miles in\nbreadth; and on June 14th, at 7 a.m., arrived at Cleveland, where Mr.\nMueller preached six times at the great Tabernacle to immense\ncongregations, occasionally numbering about 3,000. His last address, on\nJune 17th, was upon the Second Coming of the Lord, when he spoke with\ngreat help and power. At Cleveland we remained a short time only; for\nhaving (when at San Francisco) received an earnest invitation to return\nto Washington, on account of the blessing which accompanied his ministry\nduring our first visit; on June 18th, at 5 p.m. we left, and after a\njourney of 524 miles, arrived at Washington the next morning at 9\no'clock. Here Mr. Mueller held seven meetings, including services at\nLincoln Hall, the Calvary Baptist, Wesley, Fourth Presbyterian, and\nLutheran Memorial Churches; and, on Sunday evening, (June 23rd,) at the\nMetropolitan Church, he preached a farewell sermon from 2nd Tim. iv. 7,\n8.\n\nOn June 24th we rose at half past 3, left Washington by an early train,\nand reached Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at 11 a.m., where we visited the\nfield upon which, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July, 1863, the great\nbattle was fought between the Union forces of the Americans under\nGeneral Meade, and the Confederate army under General Lee, when the\nlatter was defeated with a loss of many thousands of men. \"In the\nNational, or Soldiers' Cemetery on the hill, there is a monument 60\nfeet high, around which are ranged, in semi-circular slopes, the graves\nof many who fell during the war. The divisions between the States are\nmarked by alleys and pathways radiating from the monument to the outer\ncircle, the rows of graves being divided by continuous granite blocks, a\nfew inches high, upon which are the name and regiment of each soldier,\nas far as could be ascertained. Originally about 32,000 corpses were\ninterred in this Cemetery, but eventually the Southern States removed\nthe bodies of their own soldiers and deposited them elsewhere.\" To look\nupon this burial ground, literally _sown_ with the corpses of the slain,\nwas an affecting sight; but Jesus is coming and the resurrection, when\n\"_all_ that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come\nforth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they\nthat have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.\" This Cemetery\nis kept in beautiful order by the Government.\n\nAfter leaving it, we returned to Gettysburg, and in the evening a\nmeeting was held at the College Church, when Mr. Mueller addressed the\nstudents at Pennsylvania College, the students of the Theological\nSeminary, and a large number of other persons for an hour and 20\nminutes. On June 25th, we rose at 5, and leaving Gettysburg by the 6.45\ntrain, reached New York the same afternoon, where we remained until\nThursday, the 27th, and on the afternoon of that day, at 2 o'clock,\nsailed in the \"Adriatic,\" (White Star Line,) for Liverpool. On Sunday\nmorning, June 30th, Mr. Mueller gave an address from John xiv. 2, 3, to\nthe cabin passengers, ship's officers, and a few steerage passengers in\nthe saloon, and held a conversational meeting likewise in the afternoon.\nOn the following Sunday morning, July 7th, he gave another address in\nthe saloon, a service which closed his labours for that tour. In the\ncourse of it he spoke 308 times in public, and we travelled nineteen\nthousand and fifty miles by land and water altogether. At 3 p.m. we\nlanded at Liverpool, returned the following day to Bristol, and upon\narriving in an open carriage at the top of Ashley Hill at half past 4,\nfound a little army of the Orphan boys and girls, with almost all our\nhelpers at the Orphan Houses, waiting to receive us. There, as we slowly\ndrove along, the boys cheered heartily, and the girls waved their\nhandkerchiefs, determined (as a by-stander remarked) to give us \"a right\nroyal welcome\"; and at the entrance of New Orphan House No. 3, a crowd\nof children closed around us, with loving, friendly greetings.\n\n\n\n\nFIFTH TOUR.\n\nCONTINENT OF EUROPE.\n\n_From Sept. 5th, 1878, to June 18th, 1879._\n\n\nAfter remaining at the Orphan Houses on Ashley Down for eight weeks and\nthree days, (a period which gave Mr. Mueller time to attend to business\nconnected with the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, and to resume his\npublic ministry in Bristol,) on Sept. 5th, 1878, we went to Dover,\ncrossed over to Calais the next morning, and reached Paris by rail at 6\np.m. On Sunday, the 8th--morning and evening--my husband preached in\nEnglish at the Chapelle Evangelique, Rue Royale, and held another\nmeeting there on the evening of the 9th. On the following day we left\nParis for Dijon, and passed the night there; rose at 4 the next morning;\nand, after continuing our journey to Neuchatel, proceeded thence to\nBerne, where we arrived at 7 o'clock. On the evening of Thursday, Sept.\n12th, Mr. Mueller preached in German at the Salle Evangelique, which was\ncrowded to overflowing, the lower part of the building, galleries, and\nstaircases being thronged. On the 13th, he held a meeting at the Eglise\nFrancaise; on the 14th addressed some poor people at a small Institution\nat Muri, near Berne; on the 15th, 16th, and 17th, preached at the great\nEglise Francaise to very large congregations; gave an address on the\nmorning of the 18th, at a Seminary near the Fest Huette to 65 young men\nwho were being trained for teachers; and at 2 p.m. the same day we left\nby rail for Thun, 18 miles from Berne. From there we drove to Gurzelen,\na village on the mountains, three miles from Thun, in a lovely situation\nnear the Alps, where, for the benefit of the poor of that locality, my\nhusband held two meetings at a Vereins Haus, which was crowded with\npeople from the country. On Sept. 19th we returned to Berne, and the\nfollowing evening attended a social meeting of Christians at \"Die Enge,\"\nwhere he gave an address, and afterwards answered some important\nquestions that were put to him. On the afternoon of Sept. 21st he spoke\nto between 600 and 700 Christian workers--including 300 teachers of\ndifferent denominations--at the Salle Evangelique; held a meeting on the\nafternoon of Sunday, the 22nd, at the Fest Huette, and on the evening of\nthat day preached a farewell sermon, at the Eglise Francaise, to an\nimmense audience. On this occasion his subject was the Second Coming of\nthe Lord, on which he was enabled to speak with great power, and much to\nthe profit of his hearers, as we heard afterwards. At the close of this\nmeeting, before the benediction, Colonel von Bueren rose, and, on behalf\nof the Christians of Berne, thanked him publicly for his visit to the\ncity; and here, before proceeding any further, it seems desirable to\nmake the following observations:--\n\nSome of the readers of this Narrative may possibly feel inclined to\nsay--\"With so much travelling from place to place, so many public\nmeetings, and such continual intercourse with strangers, how does Mr.\nMueller find time to attend to his _own_ spiritual welfare? Whence does\nhe obtain refreshment for the inner man _himself_? How do matters stand\nbetween his _own_ soul and Christ?--because persons who are continually\nengaged in ministering to others, more than any class of individuals\nthat can be mentioned, require divine grace and wisdom for\nthem_selves_.\" The reply to such inquiries is this. Through the goodness\nof the Lord, he is a man _given_ to the reading of the Scriptures and to\nprayer. Whether travelling or at rest, a day _never_ passes, without his\ndevoting as much time as possible to the diligent, prayerful study of\nthe word of God. He is a man of _one_ book; and that book is the Bible.\nBesides reading the Scriptures regularly together early in the morning;\nin the course of the day, whenever there is time, my husband employs it\nin studying the Bible, in meditation, and in prayer. He waits habitually\nupon _God_, and thus it is, that day by day, his spiritual strength and\nvigour are renewed. This opportunity is taken, however, of commending\nhim earnestly to the prayers of the Lord's people; whether he may be\nknown or unknown to them personally.\n\nOn Sept. 23rd, at 9 in the morning, some sweet singing outside the door\nof our room announced the unexpected arrival of Dr. Bloesch, a party of\nOrphan girls belonging to the Institution he has founded, and four\nteachers, who all stood outside in the passage until the German hymn was\nfinished; when a large bouquet of flowers from the gardens of the\nchildren was handed in, a wreath of ivy, and an address in German,\nbeautifully written, congratulating Mr. Mueller upon the approach of his\nbirthday (on the 27th) and giving him Isaiah liv. 10, as a Scripture\nportion. These young girls brought a small contribution also from their\nown little pocket money, for the Orphans on Ashley Down. Their whole\nvisit was of a most touching character. After my husband had spoken to\nthem for a few minutes, they sang another hymn; we then shook hands with\nthem all, and the whole party took leave of us.\n\nOn the 24th, we left Berne for Thun, at 10.40 a.m., proceeded thence by\nsteamer to the other end of the lake, and afterwards went on by rail to\nInterlaken, where we arrived at 2 o'clock. There, at half-past 3, Mr.\nMueller preached at the English Church in German; but, as the weather was\nunfavourable, the congregation was very small. On the evening of the\nfollowing day, however, when he held another meeting at the same Church,\nthe audience was about five times as large as it had been on the\nprevious afternoon. Interlaken is in the vicinity of the glaciers of\nGrindelwald, the Faulhorn, and the Wengern Alp; and is within a few\nmiles of the waterfalls, Giessbach, on Lake Brientz, and Staubbach in\nthe Valley of the Lauterbrunnen. The Jungfrau also, and other mountains,\ncan be seen from the town. From Interlaken, on the 26th, we went to\nThun, the chief town of the Bernese Oberland, where, on that evening and\nthe next, he addressed crowded congregations at the German Methodist\nChurch. On the 28th, by particular invitation, we returned to Gurzelen,\nwhere, on Sunday morning (29th), Mr. Mueller preached at the village\nChurch to a congregation of country people, some of whom had walked many\nmiles to hear him. This place of worship was a quaint, old-fashioned\nbuilding. An hour-glass on a stand (intended, probably, to remind the\npreacher of the flight of time, and to admonish him not to be too long\nin delivering his discourse) projected conspicuously from the pulpit. In\nthe evening, my husband held a meeting at the Vereins Haus, and there\naddressed a very crowded congregation.\n\nOn Sept. 30th, we went to Neuchatel, in French Switzerland, where, on\nOct. the 1st and 2nd, he preached in German, at \"Le Temple,\" and held a\n\"German-French\" meeting at the same place on the 3rd; that is, he\noccupied the pulpit, and spoke in German, whilst a French pastor, in the\ndesk below, translated his Sermon into French. The congregation was very\nlarge, and Monsieur Nagel succeeded admirably with the translation. On\nthe 4th, Mr. Mueller held a second meeting of the same kind at Le\nTemple, when he was listened to with the deepest interest and attention;\nand the following morning a French brother called to congratulate him on\nthe success of his ministry at Neuchatel, \"for\"--said he--\"Toute la\npopulation a ete saisie et emue.\" On Oct. 6th my husband preached at the\nSalle des Conferences; on the 7th he spoke in English at the Oratoire,\nand, on our return in the evening, the following letter from one of his\nFrench hearers arrived by post.\n\n\"Tres Reverend Monsieur le Pasteur Mueller de Bristol,--Soyez beni pour\nle bien que vous m'avez fait! Depuis neuf ans, sans relache, les plus\ncruelles epreuves m'ont ete dispensees. Il a plu au Seigneur, apres des\nannees d'affreuses maladies, de me retirer une mere adoree, femme\neminente, puis, un pere bien aime, une soeur unique, un neveu cheri\ncomme un fils, et d'autres afflictions, et ensuite et en meme temps,\nd'une maniere particulierement douleureuse, les trois quarts de ma\nfortune. Il a plu au Seigneur de m'envoyer coup sur coup, tous les\ndechirements, toutes les douleurs, toutes les difficultes de la vie, et\nde me laisser ainsi a l'entree de la veillesse, dans le plus douleureux\nisolement. Ma foi, jadis si ferme, defaillait, le decouragement\nm'ecrasait; souvent je ne pouvais plus prier, et j'arrivais a un etat de\nmort spirituelle. Soyez beni Monsieur le Pasteur! Il me _fallait_ votre\nparole simple, ferme, concise, energique, convaincue, ardente, brulante\nde foi et d'amour, pour me raviver un peu. Soyez beni, cher et venere\nPasteur! J'ai suivi, quoique Suisse Francaise, toutes vos conferences,\net s'il plait a Dieu, j'irai vous entendre encore demain, au culte\nallemande, lundi an soir, a la Chapelle Anglaise, et mardi, au dernier\nsermon allemand. Adieu, cher et venere Pasteur; que votre Dieu tout\npuissant, tout bon, vous conserve pour sa gloire, et pour le bien de\ntous les mal-heureux. Une soeur sous la croix.\"\n\nOn the evening of the 8th, at \"Le Temple,\" Mr. Mueller gave a farewell\naddress to the inhabitants of Neuchatel, and on the 11th we left for\nLausanne, where, on the 13th and 14th, he preached at \"Le Temple\nAllemand,\" which was crowded in every part. On the 15th, he held an\nEnglish service at the Chapelle Ecossaise, and on the 16th and 17th,\npreached in German--with translation into French by Monsieur Duprat--at\nthe Chapelle des Terreaux. The next evening he held another English\nservice at the Chapelle Ecossaise; on the morning of Sunday, the 20th,\nattended a Brethren's meeting for the breaking of bread, where he gave\nan address, and in the evening preached again at the Temple Allemand in\nGerman. On Oct. 21st he preached in English at the Chapelle du Valentin,\nand, on the 22nd, in German at the Chapelle de Martheray; upon both\noccasions with translation into French. On the 23rd we took a drive to\nthe Cimetiere de la Sallaz, and visited the tomb of Manuel Matomoros,\nthe well known Spanish brother, so long imprisoned in his native\ncountry for Christ's sake, who died at Lausanne some time after his\nliberation (aged 32) from the effects of ill-treatment received during\nhis confinement. The grave of the departed one--situated in a beautiful\npart of the Cemetery--was surrounded by an iron railing, and covered by\na flat stone monument, raised a little above the surface of the ground,\non which the following inscription in Spanish could easily be read:--\n\n                     MANUEL MATAMOROS\n                            DE\n                          MALAGA.\n\n     8 Octobre, 1834.                31 Julio, 1866.\n\n     \"Porque yo me resuelvo en que lo que en este tiempo se padece\n     no es de comparar con la gloria venidera que en nosotros ha de\n     ser manifestada.\"--Rom. viii. 18.\n\n     \"Y nos gloriamos en la esperanza de la gloria de Dios.\"--Rom.\n     v. 2.\n\n     \"Por la ovra de Cristo ha llegado hasta la muerte.\"--Fili\n     (Phil.) ii. 30.\n\nThe tomb of this beloved brother was an interesting object, and the\nCemetery, in which it was, looked beautiful; for, although the autumn\nwas so far advanced, roses, and other flowers were in full bloom. That\nevening Mr. Mueller preached at the Presbyterian Church, and on the 24th,\nat the Temple Allemand, he gave a farewell address; when, at the close\nof the service, Pastor Wagner--in the name of the Evangelical\nAlliance--thanked him, in the presence of the whole congregation, for\nhis labours at Lausanne. Before our departure we saw a lime-tree at\nPrilly, measuring 14 yards round the trunk, which was said to be 1,000\nyears old; but, though the branches were large, and its circumference\nwas great, it looked small compared with the \"Big Trees\" of California.\n\nOn the afternoon of Oct. 25th, we left Lausanne and embarked in a\nsteamer at Ouchy (a small port on the Lake of Geneva) for Vevey. There\nMr. Mueller preached at the German Church in the evening; but, in\nconsequence of a heavy thunderstorm and the torrents of rain which fell,\nthe congregation was very small. On the following Sunday morning we\nattended a Brethren's meeting for the breaking of bread, where he spoke\nin English, with translation into French; in the evening he preached at\nthe German Church a second time, and on the 28th held his last meeting\nat Vevey, at the same church.\n\nThe next day we went on to Montreux, where he preached that evening, and\nthe next morning at the German Church. On the morning of Oct. 31st, and\nNov. 1st, and the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 3rd, at the Eglise\nEcossaise, he addressed large congregations of visitors staying at\nMontreux, Bex, Aigle, Clarens, Vernex, and Vevey, and, on the evening of\nthe 3rd, preached at the Eglise Libre in German, for the last time at\nMontreux. This town--sometimes called the Nice of Switzerland--is\ngenerally considered the most beautiful on the Lake of Geneva; and the\nDent du Midi, the lake scenery, and the mountain ranges round it, are\nvery grand. Before our departure, we went through the Castle of Chillon,\nupon the margin of the lake, which is built in the style of the middle\nages, and is now used as a prison for the whole Canton de Vaud. Its\ndungeons--hewn in the foundation rock, and extending 100 yards beneath\nthe Castle, where, in the 14th and 15th centuries, thousands of Jews\nwere decapitated, and other cruelties committed--are shown to strangers.\n\nAfter leaving Montreux, we visited Bex, Aigle, and Yverdun, at each of\nwhich places Mr. Mueller held meetings; and, on Nov. 9th, went on to\nGeneva, where a series of services had been arranged for him by the\nEvangelical Alliance. There he preached at the Salle de la Reformation,\nthe Casino, the Eglise Rive Droite, the Eglise Lutherienne, the German\nSwiss Church, the Lutheran Church, the English-American Church, and the\nOratoire de l'Eglise Libre, to very large congregations. On the 18th, at\nthe Salle de la Reformation, a meeting was held expressly for pastors,\ntheological professors of the University, and theological students, whom\nhe addressed for an hour, and afterwards replied to questions that were\nasked. Whilst at Geneva, we visited the Protestant Cathedral Church of\nSt. Peter, built in 1024, where Calvin used to preach; and saw the\nhouse in which he resided, and another in the Rue des Chanoines, where\nhe died. The Bibliotheque Publique, founded by Bonivard in 1551,\ncontains 70,000 volumes, Calvin's manuscripts, and some autographs and\nportraits of celebrated persons. There also, fastened to a high stand,\nwas \"La Bible Vulgate\" of the 10th century, a ponderous volume,\n_written_ by the monks throughout with pen and ink. During our walks at\nGeneva, the Mont Blanc range, in French Savoy, about 45 miles distant,\nformed a conspicuous and beautiful object in the landscape, the highest\npoint of which is 15,780 feet above the level of the sea. On Nov. 20th,\nat the Oratoire de l'Eglise Libre, Mr. Mueller held his last meeting at\nGeneva, and spoke in English upon that occasion, with translation into\nFrench, by Professor de la Harpe.\n\nOn the morning of the 21st, at half past 10, we left by rail for Lyons,\nFrance; and, after a journey of 130 miles, reached our destination in\nthe afternoon at half past 4. Exactly opposite the windows of the hotel\nto which we went, on a very high hill, called La Fourviere, the other\nside of the river, stood the Church of Notre Dame, with a gilded statue\nof the Virgin, 20 feet high, standing on its cupola, with arms\noutstretched; for Lyons is considered by the Papists to be under the\nprotection of Mary, and as especially--\"Consacree a la sainte vierge.\"\n\nSoon after our arrival, a German pastor called, and gave us an\ninteresting account of his labours at Lyons during the preceding 27\nyears. This large, beautiful city, the second in France, is a stronghold\nof Popery; and, when he first arrived, no Protestant services could be\nheld there; but after a terrible struggle to obtain _some_ religious\nliberty, through the influence of the British ambassador, permission to\nhold Protestant meetings was at last granted by the Government,\n_provided_ the preaching should always be in German, and never in\nFrench. For the Protestants to derive any benefit, however, from this\npermission, was _extremely_ difficult, on account of the furious\nopposition of the Romish priests, \"who (said he) if they had been able\nto do so, would gladly have burned me at the stake;\" but now, as their\nanimosity is somewhat less fierce, French and German Protestant services\nare regularly held. The population of Lyons--about 350,000--is divided\n(this pastor further stated) into two classes, one half of whom consists\nof bigoted Papists, and the other of Infidels and Rationalists. There\nis, however, a _very_ small Protestant community in this city, amongst\nwhom a few real Christians are to be found.\n\nOn Nov. 22nd, Mr. Mueller preached at the Chapelle Evangelique, Rue de la\nLanterne, in English, with translation into French by Monsieur Monod.\nMany assembled to hear him; the presence and power of the Holy Spirit\nwere felt; and it was a happy meeting. On the morning of Sunday (the\n24th), he preached at the German Church--a small, insignificant building\nin a neighbouring street; and in the afternoon held another meeting at\nthe Chapelle Evangelique, where, considering the character of the\npopulation, the congregation was very large. Before our departure, we\nwent to the top of La Fourviere to see the prospect from the summit,\nwhich embraces the whole town and the surrounding neighbourhood for many\nmiles. \"Lyons, which is the chief manufacturing city of France, is\nsituated at the junction of the rivers Saone and Rhone, the former of\nwhich is crossed by nine bridges, the latter by eight. It contains\nupwards of 10,000 establishments for the manufacture of silk, which\nemploy 120,000 looms, support 140,000 persons, and produce annually a\nsupply of goods valued at nearly four hundred millions of francs.\"\n\nOn Nov. 25th, at the Chapelle Evangelique, my husband preached for the\nlast time at Lyons. The next morning we rose at 5; at a quarter before\n7, left for Marseilles, and, after travelling for many miles through the\nValley of the Rhone, reached our destination at half past 3. On the\n27th, Mr. Mueller preached at the Temple Evangelique, an \"eglise\nnationale,\" where the congregation was large, and included several\npastors and members of the Consitory. The service did not begin until\nhalf past 8. On the following evening he preached again at the Temple;\naddressed the children of Miss Renger's school in French on the\nafternoon of the 30th; and, on the evening of that day, and the\nafternoon of Dec. 1st, preached again in German at Le Temple. On the\nevening of the 1st he gave a farewell address, in English, at the Temple\nEvangelique, and on Monday morning, Dec. 2nd, we left for Nismes by\nexpress at 10.45.\n\nAs this town is a \"Protestant centre,\" my husband preached that evening\nat the Chapelle Wesleyenne to a crowded audience; and the following\nafternoon a Christian gentleman conducted us through the town, to point\nout the Roman antiquities for which Nismes is famous. The principal\nbuilding, the Amphitheatre--erected as long ago as from A.D. 138 to\n160--is a very remarkable ruin. It is in the form of a vast oval or\nelipse, and contains tiers of stone seats one above the other, rising\naround it to a considerable height. In the central area, conflicts\nbetween gladiators, and combats between condemned criminals and wild\nbeasts, formerly took place; and here many persecuted disciples of the\nLord Jesus Christ were torn in pieces by lions and other savage animals\nthat were let loose upon them. The caverns, where prisoners were\nconfined, and some dens in which the wild beasts were shut up, are still\nin existence. This Amphitheatre is 400 feet long, 303 wide, and 64 high,\nand was large enough to seat 25,000 people. When all its antecedents are\nremembered, a fearful interest attaches to the place.\n\nDuring our short stay at Nismes, Mr. Mueller held other meetings, which\nwere conducted at the Chapelle Wesleyenne, the Eglise Libre, and at the\nhouse of a Christian gentleman residing in the town. Before our\ndeparture, we visited some rocks and stone quarries, about two miles\ndistant, where, during a persecution of the Protestants in the reign of\nLouis XIV., the little Church of Christ at Nismes used to assemble for\nreligious worship, because its members were not permitted to hold\nmeetings in the town.\n\nOn Dec. 7th we left Nismes for Montpellier, where Mr. Mueller preached\nthree times at the Eglise Reformee Independente, attended a prayer\nmeeting, where he gave an address, and held a conversational meeting at\nthe house of a Christian lady. In this town, just in front of our hotel,\nwas a piece of ground--now a large public garden--where, about the year\n1720, pastors were hung, simply because they were Protestants. Other\nservants of Christ, after their arms and legs had been broken with a bar\nof iron, were left to suffer excruciating pain, until a final blow on\nthe chest--given as a \"coup de grace\"--terminated their agonies. \"We\nhave been more persecuted\" (said a gentleman who related these\nparticulars--a descendant of the Huguenots) \"than any other race of\nhuman beings under Heaven.\" How faint a conception have Christians of\nthe present day, who live in the comfortable, easy circumstances to\nwhich most of us are accustomed, of the tribulation endured by disciples\nof the Lord Jesus, in years long gone by, and even as recently as the\nlast century! The Christians of Montpellier were able to relate\nnumberless instances of the most infamous and wanton cruelty, practised\nupon the Huguenots, before, during, and after the reign of Louis XIV.\n\nOn Dec. 12th, we rose at 5, left Montpellier by rail at 7 o'clock, and\nwent through Cette to Narbonne, from which place--after changing\ntrains--we proceeded on our journey; and at 2 o'clock reached Perpignan,\nthe chief town of the Pyrenees Orientales, at no great distance from the\nSpanish frontier. The climate of Perpignan is generally mild, and in\nsummer is very hot; but just then wintry winds were sweeping over the\nsnow-covered heights of the Pyrenees, which made the atmosphere\nunusually cold. This town is overlooked by a strong Citadel, and\ncontains several houses built in the Spanish style. Mont Canigou, 9,140\nfeet high, is in the distance. The next morning, at 10 o'clock, we left\nPerpignan, and our journey was continued. For many miles long ranges of\nthe Pyrenees were on our right; and on the left, the deep blue waters of\nthe Mediterranean, were occasionally so close, that a stone might have\nbeen thrown into them from the railway carriage; and after travelling\n_through_ the mountains, by means of numerous tunnels, we--for the first\ntime--found ourselves in Spain. At Portbou, on the frontier, the usual\nCustom House examination took place, and afterwards, as we advanced into\nthe country, the costumes of the people and the style of the buildings\nbecame more and more Spanish in appearance. Here, as in the South of\nFrance, there were vines and olive trees innumerable, and aloes, either\nsingly or in hedges, were growing wild in the fields or by the\nroadside. As the train stopped at nearly every station, our progress was\nbut slow; but at half past 8 we arrived at Barcelona, where two brethren\nwere kindly waiting to receive, and to conduct us to the Fonda Las\nCuatro Nationes. There we took possession of two small front rooms at\nthe top of the house, with a south aspect and stone floors. The\nsitting-room contained an open fireplace, in which we occasionally had\nsmall fires, made of the dried roots of olive trees; but the weather\nbeing generally mild and genial, they were not often needed. The street\nbelow our rooms--one of the leading thoroughfares of Barcelona--was\ncrowded day and night.\n\nThe following morning a party of English friends, labouring in Spain,\ncalled and welcomed us to the country most affectionately. On Sunday\nmorning, Dec. 15th, we attended a meeting for the breaking of bread,\nheld at a schoolroom in Calle San Gabriel, Gracia, where, at the\ncommencement of the service, a poor blind brother prayed, some portions\nof Scripture were read by one of the brethren, and afterwards Mr. Mueller\nspoke for half an hour, with translation into Spanish by Mr. Payne. The\nbreaking of bread followed, a hymn was sung, and the meeting was closed\nwith prayer. We then shook hands with our Spanish brethren and sisters,\nand, amongst them, with the blind man just referred to, who, pointing\nupwards with his finger, said in Spanish, \"We shall all speak one\nlanguage _there_.\" Whilst talking his face was lighted up with smiles,\nand he made us understand that he rejoiced greatly at our visit. He was\nvery poorly clothed, but a friend remarked, \"He is rich in faith, and\nhas been a noble witness for Christ by reading the Scriptures aloud, in\nraised type, in the streets and public walks of Barcelona.\"\n\nOn the evening of that day, Mr. Mueller preached, with Spanish\ninterpretation, at another large schoolroom in the city. On the\nfollowing Tuesday afternoon, at the house of a Wesleyan minister, he\nheld a meeting for English Christian Workers in Spain, and addressed the\nparty there assembled, with reference to their labours, for upwards of\nan hour. Conversation respecting the Lord's work in that dark Popish\nland, was freely entered into afterwards, and the meeting was of so\nprofitable a character, that, though it had lasted two hours and a half,\nno one was willing to leave, until a promise had been given that another\nshould be held the following afternoon. The next day, accordingly, all\nmet again at the same time and place, and continued for two hours and a\nhalf together. On Thursday morning, Dec. 19th, we accompanied Mr. Payne\nto visit four of the Spanish Day Schools, which are entirely supported\nby the funds of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution. They are in\nBarcelonetta (or little Barcelona), a poor part of the city, where, on\nthe first floor of one of the houses, we found two schools (one of big,\nand the other of little boys) assembled. One master, a converted\nSpaniard, was present; but the other, in consequence of indisposition,\nwas unable to attend that day. The boys were all quiet and orderly in\ntheir behaviour; and, after the younger ones from the other schoolroom\nhad come in, Mr. Mueller--with the help of Mr. Payne as a\ntranslator--began speaking to them as follows:--\"My dear children, I\nlove you all very much, and pray for you every day. I long from my\ninmost soul to meet every one of you in Heaven; but, in order that you\nmay go to that happy place, as poor, lost, guilty sinners, you must put\nyour trust in the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, who was punished in our\nroom and stead; for His blood _alone_ can cleanse us from our sins.\"\nAfter preaching the gospel further to them, he related a few particulars\nabout the Orphan boys on Ashley Down, and mentioned that _some_ of them,\nabout the same age as those he was addressing, were true disciples of\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, who, at an early age, had been led to trust in\nHim wholly as their Saviour. It was most interesting to look upon these\npoor Spanish children--gathered out from the mass of popery and\ninfidelity around--and to know that they were brought habitually under\nChristian influence and teaching. There were about 150 of them, and\ntheir parents were all either Papists or Infidels. Two schools for\ngirls, under the same roof, downstairs, were close at hand. The room for\nthe elder girls was large, but it was below the level of the street, and\na short flight of five steps led down to it. When the children were\nseated, Mr. Mueller spoke to them from a low platform; afterwards they\nsang a hymn, and then a pretty little girl, about six years old, with\nblack hair and very bright dark eyes, was mounted on a form, when she\nrepeated the 128th Psalm in Spanish with great ease, and apparently\nwithout missing a word. Another followed with the 24th Psalm, and then\nan older girl, of about 13, repeated a long Spanish poem, referring to\nthe love of Christ, His death, etc., in a firm, clear voice, without the\nslightest hesitation or inaccuracy. She could have gone on with a great\ndeal more; and the other children, too, were ready with portions of\nScripture and with hymns; but our time did not allow us to hear any\nfurther recitation. Close to the large room was a smaller one, devoted\nto a school for Infant Girls; an interesting company of _little_\nchildren, who understood the Catalan dialect only. Mr. Payne's Spanish\nhad therefore to be translated into Catalan by the governess, a second\ninterpretation, and in this way they were told that the kind gentleman\nfrom England, who was speaking, loved them, cared for them, and was glad\nto see their bright, merry, little faces. We gave them a text also, \"The\nblood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin,\" to carry home\nto their parents. Thus ended our visit to these schools, a work so\nblessed and important, that we hope, by prayer, long to hold up the\nhands of those who are engaged in it. In the afternoon, at the house of\nthe Wesleyan minister, Mr. Mueller held a third meeting for Christian\nWorkers, and on the evening of that day preached at the Wesleyan Church.\nThe next morning, at 10 o'clock, we visited two more of the schools,\nsupported by the funds of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, and went\nfirst to the boys who were on the ground floor. They first of all sang a\nhymn; and, after Mr. Mueller had addressed them, answered several\nquestions asked by the master, and repeated portions of Scripture with\ngreat ease and readiness. The girls' school upstairs was next visited,\nwhere we inspected the children's writing, and their needlework. They\nexcel in penmanship; and articles of needlework, beautifully made by\nthem, were on sale for their own benefit. This room contained also a\nsmall but interesting school of Infant Girls. In the evening my husband\npreached again at the Wesleyan Chapel, and, on Dec. 21st, we inspected\nthe San Gabriel schools, where two sheets of texts in ornamental\nwriting, beautifully executed, one from the boys and the other from the\ngirls, were presented to us. We visited a small school of Infant Girls\nalso conducted at the same place. This visit closed our inspection of\nthe ten Barcelona day-schools, supported entirely by the funds of the\nScriptural Knowledge Institution, which were all in a most satisfactory\ncondition.\n\nIn the afternoon we walked up Mont Juich, which overlooks the\nMediterranean and the whole of Barcelona and the neighbourhood. This\ncity is situated in a beautiful and highly-cultivated country, and is\nthe capital of Catalonia. It is a place of great trade, carrying on\nvarious manufactures, and has some fine squares and promenades; but the\nstreets, generally speaking, are narrow, with very high houses that\nexclude the air and sunshine.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Dec. 22nd, Mr. Mueller gave an address at a meeting\nfor the breaking of bread, held in the upper schoolroom, in Calle\nFernandina; and in the evening preached in German at a Chapel belonging\nto Mr. A. Luis Empaytaz, who translated for him. On the evening of the\n23rd, he preached at the English Episcopal Church, but the congregation\nwas very small; for in the whole of Barcelona there were not more than\nabout 120 English persons altogether. On the afternoon of the 24th he\nattended a meeting for prayer and exhortation at the house of the\nWesleyan minister, and gave an address again to Christian Workers;\npreached in the evening at the Fernandina schoolroom, and, on the\nmorning of Christmas Day, held a meeting at the Chapel belonging to Mr.\nEmpaytaz, where he preached in German, without translation. On the\nafternoon of that day, at a tea-meeting at the San Gabriel schoolroom,\nGracia, he gave an address; and afterwards a letter in Spanish, from\nmany of the pupils then present (who formerly attended the schools of\nthe Scriptural Knowledge Institution), was read, thanking him for his\nvisit to Barcelona, and expressing their grateful acknowledgments for\nthe education they had received. Some of these young men were studying\nat the University of Barcelona, and others were engaged elsewhere in\nvarious useful occupations. A translation of this letter into German\nwas then handed in, and soon after 7 the meeting was brought to a\nclose.\n\nOn Dec. 28th we rose at 5, and at half past 6 were accompanied to the\nstation by several Christian friends, who kindly came to take leave of\nus before our departure for Saragossa. At 7 o'clock we left Barcelona,\nand travelled with two Spaniards, to each of whom we gave a Spanish\nGospel and some tracts, which were thankfully accepted, and read with\ngreat attention. At 2 o'clock the passengers alighted to dine, at\nLerida; but we walked up and down the platform and gave away some\ntracts, when in a moment a crowd of third-class passengers surrounded\nus, who all pressed forward, eagerly desiring to obtain tracts or\ngospels for themselves. The few we had were distributed immediately; but\nso anxious were the applicants to obtain one _each_, that they followed\nus to the railway carriage and lingered about the door. In a few minutes\nother tracts were found and handed out, but, fearing to attract\nattention and that our actions might be watched by Romish priests, we\nheld up our empty hands to show that we had nothing more to give. The\npoor people were loth, however, to depart, and waited until the last\nmoment, thrusting their hands in at the window, with the hope of\nreceiving either a gospel or a tract. At half past 2 we left Lerida, and\nafter a journey of 228 miles, at a quarter to 9 p.m., reached Saragossa,\nwhere, at the Fonda de las Cuatro Nationes, we found suitable\naccommodation. The following morning (Sunday, Nov. 29th) a meeting was\nheld at Mr. Gulick's Church, when Mr. Mueller preached, with translation\nby the pastor, and in the afternoon addressed the Sunday School children\nat the same place. At the beginning of the service they chanted the 23rd\nPsalm, and, at the close, sang a hymn, of which the following words are\na translation of the first verse:--\n\n          \"Jesus Christ came down,\n          From Heaven to Bethlehem;\n          There, our Peace was born,\n          Our Felicity, Light, and Good.\n    Oh, blessed be God! Thanks be unto Thee, Lord,\n            For Jesus the Saviour.\"\n\nThis hymn was set to a lively tune, and sung in marked, quick time, with\ngreat spirit and animation. In the evening Mr. Mueller preached again at\nthe same Church to a large, attentive audience.\n\nOn Dec. 30th we walked out with Mr. Gulick, who conducted us to one of\nthe _two_ Cathedrals in Saragossa--the only city in Spain which has two\nCathedral Churches. The architecture is Moorish, and some sculpture on\nthe walls represents the martyrdom of a few of the early Christians, and\nthat of St. Lawrence in particular, who, in the 4th century, was roasted\nto death on a gridiron over a slow fire, by the command of one of the\nPagan Roman emperors. Though considered a Catholic by the Papists, it is\nsaid that he was a true disciple of Christ. Some poor devotees were\nworshipping at the shrines, to a few of whom we quietly gave Spanish\ngospel tracts; and a tract was handed also to a gowned individual, a\nverger or sacristan, with a wand of office, as he slowly wandered up and\ndown the aisles, who looked at us gloomily, but accepted it\nnevertheless.\n\nOur next visit was to the Cathedral of Nuestra Senora del Pilar, which\ncontains an image of the Virgin and Child on a jasper pedestal, said to\nhave come down direct from Heaven in the 1st century, and to have been\nbrought by the Apostle _James_ to Saragossa! To this image the most\nextravagant miracles are attributed. Many persons were kissing the\npillar and crossing themselves, whilst others, dispersed about the\nCathedral, were kneeling on the stone pavement before various images of\nsaints. Whole regiments of soldiers, too, come in to kneel, bow, cross\nthemselves, and perform their devotions before the different shrines.\nOh! how responsible are _we_, who possess the pure gospel of the grace\nof God, to make it known to poor idolators like these. In order to form\na correct idea of the degrading superstitions, the debasing idolatry of\nPopery, there is nothing like _witnessing_ these things in a country\nsuch as Spain, where the Roman Catholic religion appears to be of a\ngrosser type than it is in Protestant countries. Our last remaining\ntract was slipped into the hand of a worshipper, kneeling upon a stone\nstep before an altar.\n\nBesides these two Cathedrals, Saragossa contains many curious old\nMoorish houses and ancient monuments, including the Aljaferia, now a\nfort, but formerly a Moorish palace. As we walked through the streets,\nalmost every one turned round to have a good look at us as strangers;\nand occasionally some children followed close behind, desiring to have a\nthorough gaze at the walking curiosities from a foreign country.\n\nIn the evening, Mr. Mueller preached again at Mr. Gulick's Church, and on\nthe following morning (Dec. 31st) we rose at half-past 4, in order to\nstart early for Madrid. The journey was extremely tedious, and, after\nstopping at every one of the 35 stations, in the evening, at 10 o'clock,\nwe reached our destination, where Mr. Fenn (an English missionary) was\nkindly waiting to receive and to conduct us to the Fonda Peninsular,\nnear the Puerta del Sol, about two miles from the station. The next\nmorning (Jan. 1st, 1879), at 10 o'clock, a procession passed along the\nstreet consisting of boys carrying lighted tapers; soldiers, priests,\nand men bore a large figure of the Virgin, robed in crimson satin, with\na crown upon her head; whilst a small image of the Saviour was carried\nimmediately _behind_ it. The men in this procession were bareheaded, and\nall the passers-by took off their hats.\n\nIn the evening, at a coffee meeting at Chamberi, Mr. Mueller addressed a\ngathering of Spanish Christians, with translation by Mr. Fenn. On the\nafternoon of Jan. 2nd, we attended a meeting of Christian Workers, to\nwhom my husband gave a short address, and in the evening he preached at\nChamberi. At a gospel service held the following Sunday morning at\nChamberi, he preached again; spoke in German in the afternoon at Pastor\nFliedner's Church, and in the evening preached at Chamberi a second\ntime, with translation into Spanish. The next day a meeting of school\nteachers was held at Mr. Fenn's house, where Mr. Mueller gave them a\nshort address, and in the evening he attended the first of a series of\nprayer meetings at Mr. Fliedner's Church.\n\nOn Jan. 7th, we inspected the five schools--three at Chamberi, and two\nin another part of Madrid--which are supported by the funds of the\nScriptural Knowledge Institution, and are under the care and\nsuperintendence of Mr. and Mrs. Fenn, where it was gratifying to find\nthe dear children (contrary to custom, as their Christmas holidays were\nscarcely over) assembled in considerable numbers to see the strangers\nfrom England, whose presence seemed to afford them great delight. After\nvisiting the three Chamberi schools, which are admirably conducted, all\nthe children formed one assembly in the Chapel, where Mr. Mueller\naddressed them for about twenty minutes, with translation by Mr. Fenn.\nHe spoke also to the children of the two other schools. Sheets of paper,\ncontaining texts and short addresses, beautifully written, were\npresented to us by the pupils at Chamberi. On our way back to the hotel,\nwe passed an open piece of ground, where, several years ago, large\nquantities of human bones were disinterred, the remains of victims of\nthe Inquisition, about 130 Protestants having been burned alive there in\nformer times, as an \"auto da fe,\" by their enemies, the Papists. Here\nthe hand of a young girl was found, with a large nail driven through it;\ntresses of long hair were discovered, and other revolting evidences were\nbrought to light of the cruelties that had been perpetrated. We visited\nthe Plaza Mayor also, a large Square in _Old_ Madrid, where, centuries\nago, Jews, Protestants, and criminals, all dressed in hideous garments,\nand high, pointed caps, were brought before their judges; by whom, after\nsentence of death had been pronounced, they were sent to the spot above\nmentioned, near Chamberi, and there burned alive.\n\nOn the evening of Jan. 9th, at a united prayer meeting of the\nEvangelical Alliance, Mr. Mueller gave an address on prayer, and spoke at\nChamberi also, at a prayer meeting the next evening. On the 11th, we\nvisited Mr. and Mrs. Fenn's interesting Orphan Institution; on the\nmorning of Sunday, the 12th, my husband preached at Chamberi, and in the\nevening addressed a large English congregation at a Hall connected with\nthe residence of the Presbyterian minister. This Hall, and the premises\nconnected with it, at one time formed a portion of the Spanish\nInquisition.\n\nOn the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 13th, at a quarter before 5, we left\nMadrid for Bayonne, and at 7 reached the Escurial--both palace and\nmonastery in one; which, on account of the lateness of the hour, could\nbe seen very indistinctly. We passed Avila also, a town enclosed by\nancient granite walls 800 years old, which has 86 towers and gates, and\nis considered the finest specimen of a walled town in Europe. Valladolid\nwas reached at midnight; and soon after 6, on the 14th, as the day began\nto dawn, we arrived at Vitoria, where the mountainous, picturesque\ncharacter of the country formed an entire contrast to the plain on which\nMadrid is situated. For many miles we travelled through the Passes at\nthe western extremity of the Pyrenees, and went through tunnel after\ntunnel, until, at 10.15, the train drew up at San Sebastian, a town on\nthe Bay of Biscay, besieged by the British army under Wellington in\n1813; where numbers of English soldiers, who fell during the war on the\nPeninsula, lie interred. The last stations in Spain were Irun and\nHendaya; and, after travelling close to the Bay of Biscay, where great\nrolling waves were dashing in upon the shore, at half past 1 p.m. we\nreached Bayonne.\n\nOn the afternoon of Jan. 15th, at a little meeting held at the house of\nMonsieur Nogaret, pastor of the Reformed Church, Mr. Mueller spoke in\nFrench for three quarters of an hour; and afterwards we walked to the\nfortifications, from which the district between Bayonne and the frontier\ncould be seen--a locality memorable as the scene of the struggle between\nWellington and Soult in the year 1813. On the 17th we went to Biarritz,\na beautiful watering place on the Bay of Biscay, six miles from Bayonne,\nwhere the rocky coast lies open to the full sweep of rollers from the\nBay. There, at 2 o'clock, in a large salon of the Hotel de France, Mr.\nMueller held a meeting for the English, of whom he addressed a\nconsiderable number, for an hour. At half past 3 we returned to Bayonne,\nand at 5.20 left by rail for Pau in the Pyrenees. There, on the\nfollowing Sunday (Jan. 19th), my husband preached morning and afternoon\nin English at the Presbyterian Church, to large congregations, with much\nhelp from the Lord. On the evening of the 20th, he conducted a French\nservice at Le Temple, and preached the following morning in German at\nthe Presbyterian Church. He held English meetings also at this Church\nevery morning (except Saturday) throughout the week.\n\nPau is famous for its mild, genial climate, its beautiful scenery, and\nfor being much resorted to by visitors--especially the English--of whom,\nduring our stay, there were about 2,000 in the place. The Chateau of\nHenry 4th is joined by three bridges to the town. On the morning of\nSunday, Jan. 26th, Mr. Mueller preached a farewell sermon at the\nPresbyterian Church and held a French meeting in the evening for the\nworking classes, at a large Hall.\n\nOn the 27th, we left Pau for Bordeaux, about 150 miles distant, where,\nat the Chapelle Evangelique, he held two French meetings. An address was\nalso given by him at a Hall belonging to the \"Union Chretienne de jeunes\ngens,\" and on the 29th, we went to the Asylums of La Force, of which the\nlate Mr. John Bost was the Founder and Director. After a journey of 70\nmiles we reached our destination, and in the afternoon accompanied Mr.\nBost in a small omnibus belonging to the Institution, to visit his\nAsylums, which are situated at some little distance from each other.\nThey are eight in number. \"La Famille Evangelique is for Orphan girls of\nall ages. Bethesda is an asylum for girls infirm or incurable, blind, or\nthreatened with blindness, idiot, imbecile, or of feeble intellect.\nEbenezer is an asylum for epileptic girls. Siloam is for boys infirm or\nincurable, blind or threatened with blindness. Bethel is an asylum for\nepileptic boys. Le Repos is for invalid governesses, infirm school\nmistresses, widows or spinsters who are ill or without resources. La\nRetraite is for servants, widows or spinsters, who are ill, infirm, or\nwithout means of support, and afflicted with incurable diseases; and La\nMisericorde is for idiot girls who have lost all intelligence; also for\nepileptics, who are idiot and infirm.\" After we had inspected these\ndeeply interesting, and most Christ-like Institutions, a very large\ngathering of the inmates who were well enough to attend, assembled at\n\"La Famille,\" where Mr. Mueller addressed them for three quarters of an\nhour; for though the community is so afflicted as a _whole_, a meeting\nwas hailed by them with delight, many of the patients being intelligent,\nand some of the epileptics even, persons of sound mind, when not\nsuffering from their dreadful fits. The next day, at half past 2,\nanother service was held at \"Le Temple\" (the Church of the Institution)\nwhere upwards of 400 individuals assembled; and as Mr. Bost would not\nhear of a translation--because, said he, \"Monsieur Mueller, est\nadmirable\"--my husband addressed this large company for an hour and a\nquarter in French. Afterwards we drank tea at \"La Famille,\" and returned\nby railway in the evening to Bordeaux. [Since our visit to these\nAsylums, their beloved Founder and Director, Mr. Bost, has departed to\nbe with Christ. \"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; they rest\nfrom their labours and their works do follow them.\"] On the afternoon of\nJan. 31st, at the Chapelle Evangelique, Mr. Mueller held his fourth and\nlast meeting in the city, and at 6.50 we left by the night express for\nCannes. Toulouse was reached in the middle of the night; the next\nmorning we stopped at Marseilles, and proceeded along the coast of the\nMediterranean, until (after a journey of 480 miles) at a quarter to 1\np.m. we arrived at Cannes.\n\nThere, on Sunday, Feb. 2nd, Mr. Mueller preached in the morning at the\nGerman, and in the afternoon at the Presbyterian, Church; gave an\naddress on the 4th, at the Eglise Evangelique, held another meeting at\nthe German Church the following afternoon, and continued his labours\nevery day until the 12th, when he spoke in French at the Eglise de la\nRedemption, in the evening. On the 13th, he preached at the Presbyterian\nChurch, and on the 14th gave a farewell address in English at the Eglise\nde la Redemption.\n\nDuring our stay at Cannes, we visited \"Les Orangers\"--large plantations\nof orange and lemon trees, laden with ripe fruit--and greatly enjoyed\nthe climate of that delightful place.\n\nOn Feb. 15th we left Cannes, and, just before our departure, received a\nlittle parcel, containing an ivory paper-cutter, with a slip of paper on\nwhich these words were written--\"For dear Mr. Mueller from one of his\nformer Orphans, and wishing both Mr. and Mrs. Mueller, God speed.\" At\nhalf-past 2 we arrived at Nice, where, on the following afternoon\n(Sunday) my husband preached in English at the Presbyterian Church, held\na meeting in the evening at the Vaudois Church, and continued to conduct\nservices in English, French, or German during the remainder of our stay,\nincluding a meeting at the Presbyterian Church on the 26th, when he\npreached in English, to a large congregation on the second coming of\nChrist. Whilst we were at Nice, the whole town was in a state of\nexcitement from the Carnival, for which that place is noted. During our\nwalks, to and from the meetings, we met troops of individuals in masks,\ndressed in extraordinary costumes, who danced along the streets, and\nmade merry with anybody and everybody who happened to come across them;\nbut by promptly branching off into back streets, _we_ (happily) escaped\ntheir notice altogether. The popular idea seems to be that, just before\nthe austerities of Lent commence, a season of extravagance, folly, and\namusement is particularly appropriate. That children and young people\nshould be tempted to indulge in such diversions, is not perhaps\nsurprising; but how persons of mature age can take delight in making\nsuch _fools_ of themselves, is really most astonishing. We heard a\nChristian gentleman from London lamenting greatly that the English\ntoo--Protestants--who might be expected to set a good example to their\nCatholic neighbours, were amongst the foremost in these amusements.\n\nOn Feb. 21st, we visited Monaco, one of the most beautiful spots along\nthe whole coast of the Mediterranean. It is notorious, however, for its\ngambling saloons, which lead many who frequent them both to temporal and\neternal ruin. Suicide was said to be a common thing also amongst the\nvotaries of those gaming tables.\n\nOn March 1st we left for Mentone, 24 miles from Nice, where Mr. Mueller\npreached at the Hall of the Free Church of Scotland, at the Eglise\nFrancaise, and at the German Church, to large congregations; and\ncontinued to hold meetings daily as long as we remained. As on Sunday\nmornings the little Hall of the Free Church was crowded, its doors and\nwindows were left open; several persons therefore sat outside in the\nbalcony, on chairs, and amongst the number was Mr. Spurgeon, who\nattended three meetings. Whilst at Mentone, we had the pleasure of\nseeing and driving out with him occasionally. One afternoon, the Turin\nroad leading to Castiglione, was selected for our route, where, whilst\nslowly winding up hill in an open carriage, surrounded by magnificent\nscenery, Mr. Spurgeon said:--\"When in the midst of landscapes such as\nthese, from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I feel as\nthough I could burst out into one song of praise.\"\n\nOn the morning of March 11th, at the Free Church Hall, my husband gave a\nfarewell address. At 3.50 that afternoon we left Mentone for Ventimiglia\non the Italian frontier, and proceeded afterwards to Bella Vista,\nBordighera, the residence of Mrs. Boyce, two miles distant from the\nstation. In the evening Mr. Mueller preached at a small church in\nBordighera (built by Mrs. Boyce) with translation into Italian by Signor\nMalan, a young Italian pastor. The congregation consisted of the\nchildren belonging to Mrs. Boyce's schools, their teachers, and some\ncountry people from the neighbourhood, most of whom were Roman\nCatholics. This little church at Bordighera was then the only centre of\nreal Christian influence throughout a very extensive district, as there\nwere no other Italian _Protestant_ services between Bordighera and\nGenoa. On the following morning, we visited Mrs. Boyce's schools, and at\nhalf past two, Mr. Mueller held a drawing-room meeting for English\nresidents and visitors, at Viletta Aurelia, where, for upwards of an\nhour he addressed a large company of gentlemen and ladies. On March 13th\nwe accompanied Mrs. Boyce in a carriage to San Remo, on the coast of the\nMediterranean, nine miles distant; and there, in the large drawing-rooms\nof Villa Theresa, at 2 o'clock; he held a meeting for the English also,\nwhich was crowded with gentlemen and ladies. He spoke with great power;\nthe hearers were all attention, and one lady said afterwards--\"I was\nnever so much interested in my whole life.\" This meeting was an\nimportant one, as many present were always under ritualistic teaching,\nand never heard the pure gospel preached. In the evening, at half-past\n6, we left San Remo by express--reached Genoa at 11, and the next day at\n1.10 p.m. set off for Pisa, when our route through Spezzia and near\nCarrara extended along the coast of the Mediterranean, through scenery\nof the most beautiful description. At 7 o'clock we arrived at Pisa, and\nthe next morning, before our departure for Florence, saw the exterior of\nits celebrated leaning tower, 180 feet high, and 13 feet out of the\nperpendicular, built in the year 1174, by Bonanno of Pisa.\n\nAs our object was to reach Florence, we did not remain either at Genoa\nor at Pisa, but simply passed through those cities on the way. At noon,\ntherefore, on March 15th, our journey was continued; and at 3 in the\nafternoon we arrived at Florence, where, at the station, we were\nreceived by some Christian friends, with--\"A warm welcome in the\nMaster's name.\" The next day (Sunday) we attended a meeting for the\nbreaking of bread at a Hall in Via San Spirito, which, with an ante-room\nadjoining it, was crowded. There, Mr. Mueller spoke for nearly an hour,\nwith Italian translation by Signor Rossetti; and in the evening,\npreached at the Vaudois Church. During our stay at Florence he held a\nnumber of other meetings also, including services at two Italian\nChurches--one in Via Palazuolo, and the other in Via dei Benci--a\nmeeting at the Chapel of Dr. Comandi's Asilo in Via Aretina, an English\nservice at the Presbyterian Church, a meeting at the French Swiss\nChurch, with Italian translation, a service at the Methodist Episcopal\nChurch in English with Italian translation, and a drawing-room meeting\nat Dr. Young's, where he addressed the students of the Theological\nSeminary, their professors, several pastors, and a number of gentlemen\nand ladies. He held a second drawing-room meeting also at Dr. Young's,\nand had a Bible reading at the house of the Presbyterian minister. On\nmost of these occasions, there were large, attentive audiences. A few\ndays after the service at the Italian Church in Via dei Benci, a\ngentleman said--\"God be praised for the glorious meeting you had. I was\nthere, and enjoyed very much your powerful testimony.\" During our stay\nat Florence, we looked with interest at the exterior of the prison where\nFrancesco and Rosa Madai were confined, and had a good view of the city\nand neighbourhood from an elevated spot called the Piazza Michel Angelo.\n\nOn the morning of Wednesday, the 6th of March, we left Florence for\nRome, and arrived there in the afternoon at a quarter before 5. The next\nmorning at a prayer meeting in Via San Nicola da Tolentino, Mr. Mueller\ngave his first address in Rome. On the 28th, he held a meeting for\nChristian Workers in Via delle Coppelle; spoke at the Brethren's Hall at\na meeting for the breaking of bread on Sunday morning, the 30th, and\npreached in the evening at Mr. Wall's Chapel. On the 31st he conducted a\nservice at the Oratorio Evangelico, and subsequently preached at various\nplaces of worship including the Tempio Evangelico, the Presbyterian\nChurch, the Waldensian Church, the Sala Cristiana, the American Baptist\nChapel, the Italian Free Church, a Hall in Via della Scrofa connected\nwith the Tempio Evangelico (where a service for Italian soldiers was\nheld), the Italian Free Church, and the Wesleyan Chapel.\n\nDuring our stay in Rome, we visited the Catacombs. There are about 60 in\nall, which extend in various directions, outside the walls of the city.\n\"They consist of subterranean excavations, which served as places of\nrefuge and worship to the earliest followers of the Christian faith,\nduring the persecutions they had to suffer under the predecessors of\nConstantine, and where, after death, many thousands were interred, from\nthe earliest period of Christianity to the sixth century of the present\nera.\"\n\nWe visited St. Peter's also, the Vatican, drove along the Via Appia, by\nwhich the Apostle Paul entered Rome, and saw the Arch of Titus. The\nColiseum (which originally accommodated 87,000 spectators) is likewise a\nremarkable ruin. \"The caverns in which the wild beasts were confined\nare still in existence, and the gladiatorial spectacles, of which for\nnearly 400 years it was the scene, are matters of history. In the reign\nof Trajan, Ignatius was brought there from Antioch, on purpose to be\ntorn in pieces by wild beasts; and great numbers of martyrs perished on\nits arena.\" The Basilica of the Lateran--which we visited also--was long\nregarded as the first of Christian Churches, and styled by an\ninscription at the entrance, \"The Mother and Head of all the Churches in\nthe world!\" One of the sights of Rome, too, is the Scala Santa, where\neleven penitents were ascending a long flight of 28 marble steps upon\ntheir knees. This Scala Santa is the celebrated staircase up which\nLuther, before his conversion, was once working his weary way, when\nthese words, \"The just shall live by faith,\" seemed to reach him like a\nvoice from heaven.\n\nBefore our departure from Rome, we visited the Basilica of San Paolo\nlikewise, a vast marble Cathedral, erected on the spot where--according\nto tradition--the Apostles Peter and Paul embraced each other before\nthey were led away to execution--the former to be crucified with his\nhead downwards, the latter to be beheaded.\n\nThe Church and Monastery of the three Fountains, the Baths of Caracalla,\nthe Columbaria--remarkable ancient burying places for the remains of the\ndead, after they had been burned to ashes--the Pantheon, the Column of\nTrajan, the Arch of Septimus Severus, some curious old aqueducts, the\nruins of the palaces of the Caesars, and other famous antiquities, we\nalso saw; but the sights of Rome are so numerous and celebrated, that no\nminute description of them can be attempted, especially as our visits to\nthose just mentioned were most brief and hasty, compared with the time\nusually devoted to them by strangers. The ruins of Rome--once proudly\ncalled the \"Eternal City\"--plainly show \"that the fashion of this world\npasseth away, and the lust thereof.\" \"He (and he _only_) who doeth the\nwill of God, abideth for ever.\" What a blessed thing it is to have \"_no_\nabiding City\" here, but to look for \"the City which hath foundations,\nwhose builder and maker is God.\"\n\nOn April 9th, we went to Naples, where, the following morning, at the\nChiese Metodista, Mr. Mueller addressed about 100 Christian Workers,\nincluding pastors, evangelists, colporteurs, Sunday School teachers,\nleaders of Mothers' Meetings, etc.; and in the evening (by particular\nrequest) he held a service in the Bethel Mission ship, for the English\nseamen of Naples, amongst whom were a few sailors from Bristol, who had\nexpressed a desire that he should address them. On the following evening\nhe preached at the Presbyterian Church, in English, to a large\ncongregation; and, during our stay at Naples, held a number of other\nmeetings, including services at the Chiese Evangelica, the Italian Free\nChurch, the Waldensian Church--where he preached in French, with Italian\ntranslation--the Chiese Cristiana Apostolica, the Wesleyan Methodist\nChapel, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the German Church. He\naddressed a large class of young ladies also at a school, both in\nEnglish and in German.\n\nDuring our stay at Naples, we visited the ruins of Pompeii, 14 miles\ndistant, \"a city which was partially overthrown by an earthquake, on\nFeb. 5th, A.D. 63, and destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius, Aug. 24th,\nA.D. 79. Pompeii was overwhelmed by showers of pumice stones and ashes,\nno current of lava having ever reached it; but through the excavations\nthat have been made, a large portion of the city has been disinterred.\nMany of the houses still standing, were probably built before, or\nduring, our Saviour's life on earth.\" We saw the ruins of Herculaneum\nalso, a city destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, when it\nwas destroyed by torrents of volcanic mud.\n\nThe Solfatara, a semi-extinct volcano near Naples, is a remarkable\nlocality; and the spot where the Apostle Paul, after touching at\nRhegium, first landed in Italy, was particularly pointed out. We\nlikewise saw the road along which he travelled on his way to Rome, of\nwhich the ancient pavement, composed of massive blocks of lava, in some\nplaces is still perfect.\n\nOn April 21st--accompanied by Mr. Gray, the pastor of the Presbyterian\nChurch, who kindly acted as our guide--after driving through Naples,\nPortici, and Resina, we slowly ascended the slopes of Mount Vesuvius,\nwhich is about 30 miles in circumference at its base; and, whilst going\nup the steep incline, marked a gradual decrease of vegetation, until\ngreat lava fields, consisting of immense black boulders, and enormous\nquantities of lava, cooled, and hardened into the most fantastic shapes,\nwere reached. At 2 o'clock we alighted at the Hermitage, and afterwards\nwalked towards the eruptive cone, but made no attempt to reach its top.\nThe distant view, however, was very beautiful, and the surroundings on\nevery side were grand. A Museum at the Observatory contains a valuable\ncollection of minerals from Vesuvius, some volcanic bombs, and a few\ncurious scientific instruments, amongst which is an \"eisograph\" for\nmeasuring the duration and violence of earthquakes, so constructed that\nthe precise time of their duration can be measured with the greatest\naccuracy. Before leaving the Museum, we heard that a gentleman, whilst\nin the act of mounting the cone of Vesuvius, had just died suddenly of\napoplexy, brought on by over exertion during its ascent; and a short\ntime afterwards several men passed us carrying his corpse down the\nmountain in a chair. He appeared to be about 45 years of age, and was\nsitting upright, with his head hanging over the left shoulder. His\ncountenance was deadly pale, and life was quite extinct. The sight was\nboth solemn and affecting.\n\nOn the evening of April 24th, my husband gave a farewell address in\nEnglish at the Presbyterian Church, when at the close of the service,\nMr. Gray, on his own behalf and that of the congregation, publicly\nexpressed his gratitude for \"Mr. Mueller's valued ministry\" amongst them.\nOur visit to Naples was a very happy one, and the meetings were of a\nmost important character.\n\nThe next morning we rose at 4, to leave by an early train for Rome, but\nour stay there was a short one only. That evening Mr. Mueller preached at\nMr. Wall's Chapel to a large congregation, and the following evening\nheld a meeting at the American Episcopal Church. On Sunday morning,\nApril 27th, he gave an address at the Brethren's Hall, and preached at\nthe Sala Cristiana in the evening from Heb. xi. 24, 25, 26--a solemn\nfarewell sermon.\n\nOn the 28th we went again to Florence, and when he had held six meetings\nin that city (including a service at Dr. Comandi's Institution, where,\non May 2nd, he addressed the children of the various evangelical schools\nin Florence), on the morning of the 5th we left, and, after crossing the\nAppenines, reached Bologna in the afternoon. There he preached in\nFrench, with Italian translation, that evening and the next, at Monsieur\nRoland's Church to crowded congregations.\n\nOn May 8th we went on to Venice; passed through Ferrara, Padua, and\nother places on the way; and, after travelling by rail through the\nwatery district by which the city is surrounded, reached our destination\nin the evening, where, instead of an omnibus, a gondola was waiting for\npassengers, in which we were rowed along several canals, to the Hotel\nDanieli. That evening, at 8 o'clock, Mr. Mueller preached at the Vaudois\nChurch, and at the Methodist Episcopal Church the next evening. He held\ntwo other meetings also, whilst we remained at Venice, one of which was\nin English at the American Consul's house; but his labours in this city\nwere shortened considerably, in consequence of the inability of Monsieur\nMeille, the Italian pastor (who was suffering seriously from a throat\naffection), to translate.\n\nVenice, from being full of canals and nearly surrounded by the sea, is\none of the most extraordinary cities in the world. During our brief\nsojourn there, two or three little voyages in gondolas enabled us to\nform some idea of the place. \"This city is built upon piles, on three\nlarge and 114 small islands, formed by 150 narrow canals, and crossed by\n380 short bridges. The islands and city upon them are in a shallow\nlagune of the Adriatic. Palaces and houses, _once_ magnificent, line the\nbanks of the Grand Canal, which is two miles and a half in length, and\nthe \"Bridge of Sighs\" connects the Palace of the Doges with the prisons\nthat belong to it; but the whole city bears marks of a grandeur that has\npassed away, and its fame and glory are of a bygone character. Venice is\ndivided into two unequal parts by the Grand Canal, which is crossed near\nthe middle of its course by the Ponte di Rialto, a marble bridge of one\nsingle, spacious arch. The city contains upwards of 4,000 gondolas.\nFrom the top of the Campanile (a square tower 316 feet in height) an\nextensive prospect is obtained, embracing the Alps, the Adriatic, the\nIstrian Mountains, and Monti Euganei, near Padua.\"\n\nOn May 15th, early in the morning, we left for Breschia, and, after\npassing through Padua, Vicenza, and Verona, reached Peschiera, close to\nLago Garda, one of the beautiful lakes in northern Italy. After our\narrival at Breschia, Mr. Mueller preached that evening at the Vaudois\nChurch, from John i. 29. Amongst his hearers were several Roman\nCatholics, and some officers and soldiers belonging to a regiment in the\ncity. He held another meeting, also, the following evening at the same\nchurch, and after the service we distributed little Italian books\namongst the people, which were gratefully accepted.\n\nOn May 17th we left for Milan, and from there proceeded by an evening\ntrain to Como, where, at the Vaudois Church, he preached four times,\nwith translation into Italian. Here the congregation consisted of poor\ncountry people; and great was the interest with which they listened to a\npreacher, who told them that he was a poor man himself. Everything he\nneeds (they were told) is obtained by prayer and faith, and his wants\nare made known to his Heavenly Father only. On May 20th we spent a few\nhours at Bellagio, 16 miles distant, one of the most beautiful places on\nthe Lake of Como; and the next day returned to Milan, where Mr. Mueller\npreached at the Wesleyan Church, with Italian interpretation, in the\nevening. During our stay, he held meetings also at the Italian Free\nChurch, the Brethren's Room, the Vaudois Church, at an Italian Church in\nPlace Charles Beccaria, and at a Protestant Church in Rue Agnello. On\nthe 28th (by invitation) he held a drawing-room meeting at the British\nChaplain's house, and the next evening preached in German at the Vaudois\nChurch, not being able to address the Germans in their own place of\nworship, because their pastor was a neologian. On our way to and from\nthe meetings, we passed Milan Cathedral (built of white marble from the\nSimplon) repeatedly. Next to St. Peter's at Rome, and Seville Cathedral,\nit is the largest church in Europe. These splendid Cathedrals, however,\nare all Popish, and the religious services carried on in them are full\nof the grossest idolatry and superstition.\n\nOn May 31st, we left Milan for Turin; and after Mr. Mueller had conducted\nthree services in that city, on Tuesday, June 3rd, set off for an\nexcursion through the Waldensian Valleys, which contain a Protestant\npopulation of about 26,000, whereas Turin has only between 800 and 900\n_Protestant_ inhabitants. The journey from Turin to Pignerola was\nperformed by rail; but at the latter place we took an open carriage, and\ndrove to Villa Seche, a village inhabited principally by Protestants.\nDuring the drive, we passed several mountain torrents, saw the distant\nAlps, and drove for miles close to the river Chison, which was rushing\nover its rocky bed with a loud noise, down a steep incline into the\nValley. The whole of this district is extremely interesting, because for\nhundreds of years it has been inhabited by the Waldenses, who, in the\n16th and 17th centuries, on account of their faithfulness to Christ,\nwere cruelly persecuted by the Papists; and, as their attachment to the\nreformed faith brought many sufferings upon them, they were compelled to\nflee from their beloved homes to any hiding place that afforded them a\nrefuge. The two principal Waldensian Valleys are St. Martin and Luzerne,\nwhich contain 15 parishes; but the houses in them are scattered, and\nbeing at a great distance from each other, the members of the little\nChurches are obliged to walk many miles in order to attend the meetings.\nThese Waldensian Christians are generally very poor, and many of them\nlive in houses roofed with rough, flat stones loosely put together,\ninstead of slates or tiles. In the windows, too, of a few of their\nabodes, paper occupied the place of glass. At Pomaret some of the people\nwere standing at their doors to gaze at us, because our visit was\nexpected; and as we drove along \"Monsieur le pasteur Georges Mueller\" had\nmany respectful bows and salutations. At five o'clock we reached the\nhouse of the pastor at Villa Seche, and in the evening accompanied him\nto his Church, a very ancient Vaudois place of worship, situated at a\ngreat height upon a mountain, many hundreds of feet above his\nresidence. A steep, rugged, winding pathway, covered in places with\nloose stones, led up this mountain towards the Church; and as some\nrivulets streamed over the ascent, it was difficult to avoid getting\nankle-deep in water. The silence and solitude of the whole region, too,\nwere striking. At length, warm, tired, and almost breathless, we reached\nthe Church, a large, old-fashioned building, which was crowded with a\nrustic congregation, who (the meeting having been announced for 5\no'clock, though circumstances did not allow of our getting there till 7)\nhad been sitting there two hours, patiently waiting our arrival. The\nservice, which was in French, was opened with singing and prayer, after\nwhich Mr. Mueller addressed the audience for an hour, throwing himself\nheart and soul into their circumstances. At the close of the meeting we\ndistributed little French and Italian books amongst the people; shook\nhands with many of them; and soon after 9 reached the pastor's cottage\ndown below, a Swiss chalet, with a projecting roof, and two wooden\ngalleries outside. In this mountain home the domestic arrangements were\nof the simplest, most frugal character possible, many of the comforts\nand conveniences of life (often considered indispensable) being wanting;\nbut we were most kindly entertained, and greatly enjoyed our little\nvisit.\n\nThe next morning we took a drive to Perrier, two miles further up the\nValley, and called upon the village pastor. Underneath his house were\ntwo \"souterrains,\" or caverns where, in the last century, some Vaudois\nChristians were imprisoned, and left to starve, by their bitter enemies\nthe Papists. By the light of a candle we explored these subterranean\ncavities; but as the ground was covered with water, it was necessary to\nstep carefully on blocks of wood. Some snow covered mountains were\nafterwards pointed out, where, during the last century, 80 Vaudois women\nwith their infants were obliged to pass the night whilst escaping from\ntheir cruel foes; but, when morning came, they were discovered in a\nsemi-frozen state, and most of them perished eventually through the\nseverity of the cold.\n\nIn the afternoon we drove to La Perouse, where a night's lodging was\nproposed for us at the Hospital; we decided, however, upon going to the\n\"Hotel National,\" a little Italian public-house, but found the\naccommodation most uncomfortable, and that no one understood a word of\nFrench. At 4 o'clock a meeting was held at the Vaudois Church, Pomaret,\nwhen Mr. Mueller preached in French to a large, attentive audience. On\nthe morning of June 5th we visited St. Germain, seven miles from La\nPerouse, at which place he addressed a large congregation of poor people\nin French at 10 o'clock for three quarters of an hour. At one we set off\nagain in the little open carriage; and, after a drive of eleven miles,\nreached La Tour, the largest Vaudois settlement, and the principal\nProtestant station in the Valleys. In the evening, at St. Jean (three\nmiles from La Tour), Mr. Mueller preached at a schoolroom, belonging to\nthe Church, in French, where a large congregation, including several\ngentlemen and ladies, had assembled. Here, at the close of the service,\nthe pastor prayed--\"Que le discours excellent de notre frere soit grave\nsur nos coeurs\"; and another gentleman afterwards remarked--\"Monsieur\nMueller nous a dit precisement ce qu'il nous faut; le sermon etait\nadmirable.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of June 7th, we visited the \"Orphelinat des Vallees\nVaudoises,\" a small Orphan Establishment for 50 girls, in a delightful\nsituation, just outside La Tour. The Directrice conducted us through the\nvarious departments of the Institution, where cleanliness and order\nreigned supreme; for all the back, out-of-door premises, yards, courts,\netc., were so beautifully neat and clean, as well as the schoolrooms and\nthe dormitories, that we asked whether this was because visitors were\nexpected. The reply, however, was: \"Les departments sont tous les jours\ncomme vous les voyez maintenant.\" The garden too was admirably kept. It\ncontained an abundance of vegetables and fruit trees; vines were\ngracefully trained against a wooden paling surrounding the enclosure,\nand a few flowers were cultivated in beds. After visiting the different\ndepartments of the institution, the Directrice conducted us to a\nschoolroom, where all the girls were busily engaged with needlework.\nThey rose as we entered, Mr. Mueller spoke to them for a few minutes;\nand, when they had sung a hymn, we took leave of the interesting party.\n\nOn the evening of that day my husband preached at the Ecole de Saint\nMarguerite; on Sunday morning, June 8th, he held a French meeting at \"Le\nTemple,\" and in the afternoon we went to an old Church at Chabas, built\nby the Vaudois Christians, after the persecutions, from which they\nsuffered so long, had in a great measure terminated. Here, the building\nwas crowded to the utmost, and Mr. Mueller's address in French (which\noccupied an hour) was listened to by the audience with the greatest\ninterest. At the close of the service, Monsieur Pons (one of the\npastors) was deputed \"to express the best thanks of the Christians of\nthat locality to Mr. George Mueller for his timely and most acceptable\nvisit to the Valleys, and to express their gratitude to him and to Mrs.\nMueller for coming amongst them.\"\n\nHaving finished our little tour of 125 miles in the Waldensian Valleys,\non June 9th we returned via Pignerola to Turin. There, on the evening of\nthat day my husband held a meeting at the Italian Baptist Church, and on\nthe following evening at half past 8 preached a farewell sermon at the\nTempio Valdese Evangelico.\n\nOn Thursday, June 12th, at 9 a.m., we left Turin; crossed the Alps, via\nthe Mont Cenis Tunnel, and after a long, tedious journey reached Dijon\nat midnight. The next day our journey was continued; and at half past 4\nwe arrived in Paris. There, on Sunday, June 15th, Mr. Mueller preached\ntwice in French--at the Chapelle Malesherbe, Rue Roquepine in the\nafternoon, and at the Eglise des Billettes in the evening. On the 17th\nwe went on to Calais and Dover; proceeded to London on the 18th, and in\nthe evening at half past 6 reached Ashley Down, Bristol, where, as\nusual, a warm welcome from the Orphans and numerous kind friends awaited\nus. This long Continental tour was abundantly marked by the goodness of\nthe Lord throughout the whole of its duration, and is always remembered\nby us both with feelings of the deepest gratitude. On June 24th we went\nto London for the Mildmay Conference, where Mr. Mueller spoke on four\ndifferent occasions. At Cheltenham (where we stayed from June 30th to\nJuly 2nd) he preached twice, and subsequently held two meetings at the\nGuildhall, Bath. He preached once also at Clevedon.\n\n\n\n\nSIXTH TOUR.\n\nUNITED STATES AND CANADA\n\n_From August 27th, 1879, to June 17th, 1880._\n\n\nAfter remaining ten weeks in Bristol, where Mr. Mueller attended daily to\nbusiness connected with the Orphan Houses and the other branches of the\nScriptural Knowledge Institution, and was occupied with his usual\nministry of the Word at the three Chapels with which he is connected;\nhaving seen it to be the Lord's will that he should again visit the\nUnited States, on Wednesday, August 27th, 1879, we went to Liverpool,\nand, on the following afternoon, sailed in the \"Germanic\" for New York.\nDuring the first few days of our voyage, we had very rough weather; but,\nwhen the wind abated, the sea became calm, and our passage was a\nfavourable one upon the whole.\n\nOn Friday evening, Sept. 5th, at the request of the passengers, my\nhusband gave an address in the saloon, and on the 6th, at 4.20 p.m., we\nlanded at New York.\n\nThere we stayed at the Rossmore Hotel until Sept. 20th, but Mr. Mueller\ndid not commence his work before the evening of Sunday, the 14th, when\nhe preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Second Street,\nBrooklyn, about six miles distant. Here, the pastor of the Church (who\nlonged so earnestly for the conversion of sinners, that he described his\ndesire for their salvation as \"a consuming fire\" within him) introduced\nthe preacher to his congregation by making the following original\nremarks:--\"My dear Friends, I rejoice to tell you that we are about to\nhear the gospel from the heart and lips of our venerable friend, who,\nthough now aged 74, has preached the gospel upwards of 1,400 times\nduring the last four years, in the various cities and countries he has\nvisited. Hear this, you young men, and remember that he is no smoker,\nnor lover of alcoholic drink; but see how God can strengthen for His\nblessed service, those who trust in Him, and seek to live to His honour\nand glory. I have now great pleasure in introducing to you Mr. George\nMueller, of Bristol, England.\" After this opening speech, all eyes (as\nmay be supposed) were fixed upon the preacher, who took Isaiah iii. 10,\n11, for his text, and was enabled to speak with great faithfulness and\npower.\n\nThe following evening we went to Newark, nine miles distant, when he\npreached at one of the churches to a German congregation, held a German\nmeeting at New York on the 16th, preached at Newark in English the next\nevening, and on the 18th and 19th conducted services in German at New\nYork.\n\nOn Sept. 20th, we left for Morristown, New Jersey, where he held several\nimportant meetings, and at Drew Theological Seminary addressed the\nstudents--91 in number--for an hour and ten minutes. About nine months\nafterwards, one of the hearers (a gentleman who has since become the\npastor of a church) told us, the blessing he had received, through this\naddress, was so great, that he had experienced something like a second\nconversion by means of it. He added, that about one half of the other\nstudents also were similarly blessed upon the same occasion.\n\nOn Sept. 26th we returned to New York, and proceeded thence, via\nPo'keepsy and Albany, to Troy, 157 miles distant, where, at the\n\"Climbers' Rest,\" (a house standing on a steep hill in a beautiful\nsituation, the residence of a gentleman who had kindly invited us to be\nhis guests) we remained during our stay. At Troy Mr. Mueller preached\nseveral times to crowded congregations, and on the 29th attended a\nmeeting of about 80 pastors from the city and neighbourhood, whom he\naddressed for an hour and a quarter. He visited Troy Orphan Asylum also,\nspoke to the children, and held one meeting at Lansingburg. On Oct. 4th\nwe went to Albany, and proceeded afterwards to Saratoga Springs (a\nbeautiful and salubrious spot, much frequented by the Americans) at both\nof which places my husband preached repeatedly, and gave addresses at\npastors' meetings likewise. His last service at Saratoga Springs was\nheld at the First Baptist Church, on the evening of Oct. 14th, when he\npreached from 1st Thess. v. 16, to a large congregation. The meeting was\na very precious one.\n\nOn the 15th we left Saratoga Springs, early in the morning, and\ntravelling via Schenectady, Utica, Rome, and Syracuse, arrived at Dr.\nFoster's Sanatorium, Clifton Springs, 175 miles distant, in the evening.\nAs this establishment is a Christian centre, much resorted to by the\nLord's people from various parts of the United States, we remained there\nuntil the 23rd; and, during our stay, Mr. Mueller conducted family\nworship every morning in the Chapel belonging to the Institution. He\npreached in the evening also, to congregations consisting of invalids,\nvisitors, and persons from the neighbourhood. On Sunday evening, Oct.\n19th, his subject was the second Advent, on which he spoke for an hour\nand a quarter with great liberty, earnestness, and joy, breaking out\nduring his discourse into fervent prayer that \"Christ would graciously\nrevive the Church, and arouse His slumbering Bride, to look, and watch,\nand wait for her absent Lord's return.\" The solemnity with which he\nspoke was particularly noticed, and the subject was one in which many\ntook a lively interest.\n\nFrom Clifton Springs we went on to Rochester, where he preached at St.\nPeter's, the Plymouth, the First Presbyterian, and the Baptist Churches;\nand on Sunday evening, Oct. 26th, at the large Brick Church, addressed\nan overflowing audience, when more than 1,000 people were unable to\nobtain admittance.\n\nOn Oct. 28th we went, via Niagara Falls, to Hamilton, Canada, on the\nshores of Lake Ontario, and afterwards to Brantford, at each of which\nplaces Mr. Mueller held several meetings. At Hamilton also, at the Music\nHall, he addressed the inmates of a Blind Asylum (71 in number), and at\nBrantford, besides visiting an Institute for the children of North\nAmerican Indians, to whom he spoke, called upon the widows at a Widows'\nHome, and addressed them likewise.\n\nOn the 8th we left Brantford for Toronto, where, in the afternoon at\nShaftesbury Hall, he addressed 400 Sunday School teachers, and held a\nmeeting in the evening for 200 young men belonging to the Young Men's\nChristian Association. He preached also on the morning of Sunday, the\n9th, at Sherbourne Street Methodist Church, addressed a Bible class at\nShaftesbury Hall in the afternoon, and preached for an hour in the\nevening at Knox Presbyterian Church, to about 1,500 persons. On Oct.\n10th he gave two addresses (in the afternoon and evening) at Shaftesbury\nHall, and one address every afternoon in the week besides; preached on\nthe morning of Sunday, the 16th, at the Central Presbyterian Church, and\non that evening and the next, addressed large audiences at the great\nMetropolitan Church, which holds 3,000. On the former of these occasions\nthe building was crowded to overflowing.\n\nOn Nov. 19th we rose at 5, and at 7.12 set off on a journey of 333\nmiles, by \"through express\" for Montreal (a city which contains a\npopulation numbering upwards of 100,000 Papists, and only about 50,000\nProtestants), where we arrived at 9 o'clock that night. There Mr. Mueller\npreached every evening in the week, and twice on Sunday until our\ndeparture. His ministry (we heard) was highly valued in that city, and\nmany spoke of blessing received by means of it.\n\nOn Nov. 29th at 4 o'clock, we left for Ottawa, the capital of the\nDominion of Canada, 117 miles from Montreal, where we arrived at half\npast 9, and on the following day (Sunday) my husband preached morning\nand evening at the Tabernacle to large congregations. During our short\nstay at Ottawa, the cold was intense, and there were heavy falls of\nsnow, but we took a drive to the Chaudiere Falls, and saw the residence\nof the Marquis of Lorne, Governor-General of Canada. From Barrack Hill,\nwhich rises almost perpendicularly to an elevation of 350 feet, the\nprospect was extensive, and the beauty of the scenery in the\nneighbourhood of Ottawa is said to be unrivalled. In the neighbourhood\nof the Falls the frost work was remarkable, and the icicles (several\nfeet in length) formed quite a picture.\n\nOn Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, we left Ottawa for Brockville, Ontario, and on the\n5th proceeded to Kingston, at each of which places Mr. Mueller held\nmeetings. At Kingston, on Saturday morning, Dec. 6th, he addressed the\nstudents of Queen's College, and in the evening preached at the\nMethodist Episcopal Church. On the morning of Sunday, the 7th, he held\na meeting at the First Congregational Church, and in the evening\naddressed an overflowing audience at a mass meeting in the City Hall,\nwhere hundreds were unable to obtain admission.\n\nOn Dec. 8th he preached again at the City Hall; gave an address at a\npastors' meeting on the morning of the 9th, and in the afternoon\nreturned to Toronto, 170 miles from Kingston, where we arrived at 11.15\nthat night. There, having been particularly invited to attend the\nConference meetings at Shaftesbury Hall, on the following morning (Dec.\n10th) we were present at the opening prayer meeting, when the Hon.\nVice-Chancellor Blake was President. From 10 to 11 Mr. Mueller gave an\naddress on \"The inspiration of the Scriptures,\" and was followed by the\nRev. W. J. Erdman of Jamestown, New York, who spoke from 11 to 12 on the\n_study_ of the Bible; a subject upon which he threw out several valuable\nhints. He spoke, for instance, of the importance of reading the Holy\nScriptures with a humble, teachable, _receptive_ mind, prepared to set\naside notions, thoughts, and prejudices of our own; to believe _all_\nthat God reveals; and to _carry out_ the light received. In the\nafternoon, Mr. Robert Cameron of Brantford spoke, on the second Advent,\ndwelling upon the _glory_ of that period, when the kingdoms of this\nworld shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and\nremarked that, in apostolic times, young converts, at the very outset of\ntheir course, were instructed in the precious truth of His personal\nreturn, to which the Scriptures so largely and so definitely point. He\nreminded his hearers also of the instruction given by the Apostle Paul\nto the Thessalonians, namely:--\"That the day of the Lord shall not come,\nexcept there come the apostasy first, and the man of sin (the personal\nAntichrist) be revealed, the son of perdition, whom the Lord shall\nconsume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the\nbrightness of His coming.\" Mr. Cameron was followed by Mr. Mueller, who\nspoke from 4 to 5 upon \"Christ in all the Scriptures;\" and in the\nevening there were addresses to Christian Workers from Messrs. Erdman,\nMacleod, Parlans, and others.\n\nOn the morning of the 11th, the attendance at Shaftesbury Hall was\nlarge, and Vice-Chancellor Blake again occupied the chair. After half an\nhour had been spent in prayer, the Rev. E. Harris, of St. Thomas,\naddressed the meeting; the Rev. P. Macleod of Stratford spoke\nafterwards, and an address from Mr. Erdman brought the morning service\nto a close.\n\nIn the afternoon Mr. Mueller's subject was \"The Second Coming of Christ,\"\nwhen he gave an outline of the chief events that will precede and\naccompany that glorious event, and dwelt upon many important truths\nconnected with it. He spoke for an hour and 20 minutes. After Mr. Erdman\nhad followed with his subject, \"No Millennium until Jesus comes\" (for\nwhich here was very little time), \"Down life's dark vale we wander,\nTill Jesus comes\" was sung with great animation, and the meeting\nterminated.\n\nIn the evening, from 8 to 9, Mr. Mueller spoke again upon the second\nAdvent, when he expounded Daniel vii., and in the course of his address\nmade practical remarks connected with the subject, which took up so much\ntime, that Mr. Erdman (as before) was able to say a few words only, on\nthe topic allotted to him; but, as this dear brother in the Lord,\npossessed a gracious, Christ-like spirit, he only said--\"I rejoice that\nBrother Mueller should take the lead, for I feel like Timothy standing by\nthe side of Paul.\" As Mr. Erdman subsequently gave us a few interesting\nparticulars about his own conversion and experience which are\ninstructive, for the benefit of others, it may be desirable to record\nthem here.\n\nWhen quite a boy, he was an ardent lover of his Greek Testament, and\nused to read it habitually long before he really _believed_ the truths\nwhich the precious book contained; but, through his constant study of\nit, became at length a true disciple of the Lord Jesus. Some time after\nhis conversion, however, when the pastor of a church, he, like many of\nhis brethren in the ministry, was so thoroughly opposed to the doctrine\nof Christ's pre-millennial advent, that he debated publicly against it.\nStill, from his early youth he had always been a great lover of the\nsimple word of God, apart from human teaching, and now in the course of\nhis study of the Greek Testament, was led to see his standing in Christ\nmore clearly than he did when first converted. He found that, by\ntrusting in Jesus, he was pardoned and justified, that he was \"Accepted\nin the Beloved\"; and whilst rejoicing in a full assurance of his own\npersonal salvation, this thought began gradually to steal into his\nmind--\"Ought I not in the same way to take _simply_ and _literally_\n(whenever it is possible to do so) all the statements both in the Old\nand New Testaments that point to the _personal return of the Lord Jesus\nChrist_, and throw light upon that great event?\" This single ray of\nlight he diligently followed, and his study of the prophetic word\neventually led to his becoming as _certain_ that the second coming of\nChrist will be pre-millennial, as he is of any other truth revealed in\nthe Holy Scriptures.\n\nOn Dec. 12th, the Rev. Arthur Burson presided at the Conference, when\naddresses were given by Vice-Chancellor Blake and other brethren. The\nsubject for the Vice-Chancellor was--\"Watch\"; the Rev. J. Salmon's,\n\"Man, as seen in the Old and New Testaments\"; Mr. Erdman's, \"Eternal\nLife\"; and in the afternoon at Shaftesbury Hall, Mr. Mueller replied in\npublic, to nine written questions that had been handed in, one of which\nwas this--\"Are we to expect our Lord's return at _any moment_, or that\ncertain events must be fulfilled before He comes again?\" His answer\nwas--\"I know that on this subject there is great diversity of judgment,\nand I do not wish to force on other persons the light I have myself.\nThe subject, however, is not new to me; for having been a careful,\ndiligent student of the Bible for nearly fifty years, my mind has long\nbeen settled on this point, and I have not the shadow of a doubt about\nit. The Scriptures declare plainly, that the Lord Jesus will _not_ come\nuntil the apostasy shall have taken place, and the man of sin, the \"son\nof perdition\" (or personal Antichrist) shall have been revealed, as seen\nin 2nd Thess. ii. Many other portions also of the Word of God distinctly\nteach, that certain _events_ are to be fulfilled before the return of\nour Lord Jesus Christ. This does not, however, alter the fact, that the\n_coming of Christ_, and not death, is the great Hope of the Church, and,\nif in a right state of heart, _we_ (as the Thessalonian believers did)\nshall 'serve the living and true God, _and--wait for His Son from\nHeaven_.'\"\n\nIn the evening Mr. Mueller spoke for 40 minutes on \"Walking with God,\"\nsome valedictory addresses from the Vice-Chancellor and other brethren\nfollowed, and after singing--\"Till He come, oh let that word,\" etc., the\nPresident requested \"Our dear brother, Mr. Mueller, to give the\nbenediction,\" when the happy Toronto Conference terminated.\n\nDuring his concluding remarks, Vice-Chancellor Blake expressed his\nsurprise that pastors and servants of Christ, who minister in word and\ndoctrine, take so little notice of the second Advent, as nearly \"one\nthird of the Bible, either directly or indirectly, points to it.\" By\nmost of them the subject is ignored; but \"Christ crucified, Christ\nrisen, and Christ _coming_,\" _should_ be their theme. One important\nfeature in the Toronto Conference was--that instruction was given as to\nthe character of the dispensation in which we live. How important it is\nto understand that there will be _no_ universal blessing _now_, but that\nthe _very opposite_ of this is to be expected; for iniquity will abound\nand _increase_, in the professing _Church_ as well as in the world,\nuntil at last \"the man of sin will be revealed the son of perdition,\nwhom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall\ndestroy with the brightness of His coming.\" How earnestly should we seek\nto walk and to act _now_, as in the light of the great day of Christ's\nappearing!\n\nOn Sunday morning, Dec. 14th, Mr. Mueller preached at Elm Street\nMethodist Church; and at the great Metropolitan Church, addressed an\nimmense congregation in the evening, from John xiv. 16, 17. His subject\nwas the indwelling and power of the Holy Ghost, and he concluded his\nsermon with a word of warning to believers not to grieve the Spirit. The\nunconverted were also solemnly reminded, that--\"If any man have not the\nSpirit of Christ, he is none of His.\" That evening we heard from Mr.\nClarkson (pastor of the Sherbourne Street Methodist Church) that on\nSunday morning, Nov. 9th, when my husband preached for him, there were\nseveral conversions amongst his congregation. Referring also to himself,\nhe said--\"Your ministry, under God, has greatly quickened me.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, Dec. 20th, we left Toronto, and went, via Hamilton\nand Niagara Falls, to Buffalo, on the shores of Lake Erie, in the United\nStates, 120 miles distant. There, on the following day (Sunday), Mr.\nMueller preached at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the morning,\nand at the Central Presbyterian in the evening, where there was a \"union\nservice.\" During our visit to Buffalo, he held meetings also at the Hall\nof the Young Men's Christian Association, at Prospect Avenue Church, the\nNorth Presbyterian, First Baptist, and Lafayette Street Churches, at St.\nPeter's (a large German Church which was crowded to the utmost with a\nmass meeting of Germans, 2,000 being present) at the new Church of the\nEvangelical Association, and at Calvary Presbyterian Church. On Dec.\n30th, at a meeting for pastors, he addressed about 50 for an hour and 10\nminutes, who received him most affectionately, and on Jan. 4th, 1880,\npreached again at St. Peter's in German to a vast audience of 2,000. In\naddition to his English services, he held four large German meetings\naltogether.\n\nOn Jan. 5th we left Buffalo, and returning through Niagara Falls and\nHamilton, went via Paris, to Woodstock, Canada, where, during our short\nstay, my husband preached at the Baptist, Knox, and Methodist Churches,\nand gave an address at the Baptist College to the students. During our\nstay at Woodstock, a pastor from Hamilton related to us the following\ninteresting circumstance:--\n\nSeveral years ago John and Thomas Gain of Hamilton (two orphan lads)\nwere converted through going to a Sunday School, which they had been in\nthe habit of attending, and some time afterwards \"George Mueller's Life\nof Trust\" was given to them. In consequence of reading this book--having\ndetermined to begin business for themselves, and to carry it on by\nprayer and faith, according to the principles therein so strongly\nadvocated, they began to manufacture paper bags, with addresses printed\non them of the men of business by whom the bags were ordered. Desiring,\nhowever, to adhere closely to their principle of trust in God, they were\nmost careful to avoid undertaking orders that involved any departure\nfrom it, and all _kinds_ of business upon which they could not\nconfidently ask His blessing. This path of faith resulted in prosperity,\nfor the Lord so blessed them, that they became comparatively rich. John\nGain, who has since departed to be with Christ, died triumphantly; but\nhis brother Thomas is still living, and continues to carry on business\nat Hamilton. The gentleman who related these particulars, knew them both\nwell, as they were formerly members of the church of which he was the\npastor.\n\nOn Jan. 10th, we left Woodstock, and went to London, Ontario, where, the\nnext morning (Sunday), Mr. Mueller preached at Queen's Avenue Methodist\nChurch, and that evening and the next addressed large audiences at St.\nAndrew's. After this last service we were introduced to several persons,\namongst whom was the Rev. Josiah Henson, a venerable negro, with a\npleasant expression of countenance, and white hair, who shook hands with\nus most cordially. This was \"Uncle Tom,\" the hero of \"Uncle Tom's\nCabin,\" a well-known character to many.\n\nDuring the remainder of our short stay at London, Mr. Mueller held a few\nother meetings; and on Jan. 17th we left Canada for Detroit, Michigan,\nUnited States, where, on the afternoons of Sunday, the 18th, and Monday,\nthe 19th, he preached at Fort Street Presbyterian Church; and on the\nevening of the latter day, at St. John's, a German Lutheran Church,\nwhich was crowded. A number of German ministers too from the city and\nneighbourhood were present on this occasion. Whilst at Detroit, my\nhusband preached likewise at the First Baptist, Jefferson Avenue,\nCentral Methodist Episcopal, Simpson Methodist Episcopal, and Central\nPresbyterian Churches; held three more meetings for the Germans,\naddressed a number of pastors at Lafayette Street Church, spoke at the\nCentral Methodist Episcopal Church on Feb. 2nd, to about 500 Christian\nWorkers, and had five private interviews of two hours each with Dr.\nPierson (pastor of Fort Street Presbyterian Church) with reference to\nhis labours in the ministry.\n\nFrom Detroit, on Feb. 4th, we went to Ypsilanti (at which place Mr.\nMueller preached three times, and addressed about 200 students of the\nNormal School, or State College who were being trained for teachers),\nand from Ypsilanti proceeded to Ann Arbor, where, on Sunday morning,\nFeb. 8th, he addressed a union meeting of Germans in their own language\nat a German Church. On that evening also, at the great University Hall\n(the largest in the State of Michigan) he addressed a mass-meeting,\nconsisting of about 1,000 students out of the 2,000 who belong to the\nUniversity, and 1,800 persons from churches which had been closed, that\ntheir members might attend this service. From the platform of the Hall\n(a large semi-circular building), just before the sermon, Dr. Brown, of\nthe Presbyterian Church, made a short opening speech, and concluded his\nremarks by saying:--\"We have for years, Mr. Mueller, been acquainted with\nyour life and labours; we thank God for you; your work has been an\ninspiration to us, and we now most heartily welcome you to the\nUniversity and to the Churches of Ann Arbor.\" My husband then addressed\nthe vast audience for an hour, and spoke particularly to the students\nwho formed a large portion of the congregation.\n\nThe following brief account of this University may here be considered\ninteresting:--\n\n\"The University of Michigan, located in Ann Arbor, is one of the noblest\nInstitutions in the land. With fees little more than nominal, and with a\nstandard of scholarship as high as any College or University in the\ncountry, it numbers amongst its students natives of every part of the\nglobe. The University buildings occupy a square of ground, each front of\nwhich is nearly a quarter of a mile in length. There are no dormitories,\nall the space being devoted to purposes of instruction. The library is\nlarge and constantly increasing; the geological collection is one of the\nmost perfect in the country; there is a fine art gallery; and the\nmedical museum is complete.\" Before our departure, Mr. Mueller preached\nat the Presbyterian Church, and held a second German service on Feb.\n10th.\n\nOn the 11th we left Ann Arbor for Olivet, but, in consequence of a\nrailway accident, our journey was delayed; and having to pass one night\nat Jackson on the way, and to drive through Charlotte to another\nstation, we did not reach our destination until Thursday afternoon the\n12th. At Olivet, a little village, remarkable chiefly for its College,\nmy husband preached only twice; and on the latter occasion addressed the\nCollege students (of whom there were about 300) at the Church belonging\nto the Institution.\n\nOn Feb. 14th, we had a long drive to Marshall, 12 miles distant, and\nthen continued our journey by rail to Kalamazoo, 35 miles from Marshall.\nHere Mr. Mueller preached twice at the First Presbyterian Church, and\nheld two union meetings, one at the Wesleyan and the other at the\nBaptist Church. On the afternoon of Feb. 8th, he gave an address also\nat Mount Holyoke Seminary for Ladies, which stands upon a hill in a\nbeautiful situation, at a little distance from the town. On Feb. 19th,\nhe held a meeting for the 135 students of Kalamazoo College, and on the\n20th we left for Chicago, 142 miles from Kalamazoo.\n\nThere my husband preached at the First Congregational Church on Sunday\nmorning, the 22nd; addressed about 2,000 Germans at Mr. Moody's\nTabernacle in the afternoon; held German meetings at Farwell Hall, on\nthe evenings of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th; and on the 26th gave a\nfarewell address to the Germans of Chicago at Moody's Tabernacle in the\nevening. On Feb. 27th, at an evening meeting connected with the Sunday\nSchool Teachers' Convention for Cook's County, held at Farwell Hall,\nwhich was attended by delegates and superintendents from Chicago and\nother places; Mr. Mueller addressed 1,000 Christian workers for about an\nhour, and was followed by Major Whittle and Mr. Jacobs, who also gave\naddresses. On Sunday, Feb. 29th, my husband preached at the Tabernacle\nin the morning, from 2nd Tim. iv. 7, 8, with great help and power, and\nspoke in the afternoon on the Second Coming of Christ, from the parable\nof the ten virgins, at the same place.\n\nOn the evenings of the 1st and 2nd of March, he preached again at the\nTabernacle; held a meeting at the Second Presbyterian Church on the\nevening of the 3rd, gave an address at the lecture room of the First\nCongregational Church on the 4th, and on the 5th held a farewell meeting\nat the lecture room of Dr. Goodwin's Church. Before our departure the\nGerman pastors stated that his ministry had been made a great blessing\nto their congregations.\n\nOn March 6th we left Chicago for Milwaukee, the commercial capital of\nWisconsin, 85 miles distant, which contains a population of 130,000, two\nthirds of whom are Germans. On the following day (Sunday) Mr. Mueller\npreached both morning and evening at Immanuel Church, held a meeting on\nthe 8th at Plymouth Congregational Church, and on the evening of\nTuesday, March 9th, addressed a mass meeting of Germans at the Second\nCongregational Church. During our stay at Milwaukee, he held three other\nGerman meetings, and on the evening of the 11th preached at the\nMethodist Episcopal Church, which was his last service in that city.\n\nOn March 12th, at midnight, we left for St. Paul, Minnesota, 324 miles\nfrom Milwaukee; and, after travelling for many miles along the banks of\nthe _Upper_ Mississippi through a beautiful district, reached our\ndestination on the 13th, at 1.25 p.m. After our arrival the cold became\nso severe, that the thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero, that\nis, 42 degrees of frost. The next morning (Sunday, 14th), at Immanuel\nChurch, Mr. Mueller held a meeting for the Germans, who form more than\nhalf the population of St. Paul; and in the evening a mass meeting of\nGermans assembled at the Opera House, where he addressed them in their\nown language for an hour. On Monday morning, the 15th, he attended a\nmeeting of pastors, and on that evening and the next, preached to large\ncongregations of Germans. During the remainder of our stay at St. Paul,\nhe preached in English also at the Congregational, Methodist Episcopal,\nand Baptist Churches, and gave an address at a meeting of ladies one\nafternoon.\n\n\"St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, is on the river Mississippi, 2,082\nmiles from its mouth at New Orleans, and is the largest city in the\nState. The Mississippi rises in Minnesota; at its source it is 3,160\nmiles from its mouth, and passes over more than 18 degrees of latitude.\"\n\nDuring our visit to St. Paul the weather was intensely cold, but the air\nwas of the dryest, purest, most invigorating character, and is\nconsidered particularly healthy even for invalids.\n\nOn March 20th, we went to Minneapolis, where, on the morning of Sunday,\nthe 21st, Mr. Mueller spoke at the Hall of the Young Men's Christian\nAssociation, and preached in the evening at the Plymouth Congregational\nChurch, to about 1,800 people. On March 22nd, at a pastors' meeting, he\naddressed 50 of his brethren in the ministry, by whom he was most\naffectionately received; preached on the 24th at East Minneapolis, on\nthe opposite bank of the Mississippi; held a meeting for the Germans on\nthe 25th; answered written questions at the Methodist Episcopal\nCentenary Church the following evening, which had been handed in; and on\nthe 27th, addressed the students of the College at Minneapolis, 275 in\nnumber.\n\nThe following note from a pastor at Minneapolis was received after our\ndeparture:--\n\n\"Dear Brother in Christ,--I cannot express to you the pleasure I have\nenjoyed in listening to your addresses in this city, all of which, in\nthe English language, I have heard. My faith in God, as the hearer and\nanswerer of prayer, has been greatly strengthened, and I feel that,\nthrough his abounding grace, I have, during the last week, enjoyed\nespecial nearness to Him, and have been better fitted for the ministry I\nlove. I shall ever be thankful for your visit to Minneapolis, and think\nof you and your work with affectionate interest. For twelve years I have\nministered to the church which I now serve, and God has been pleased to\ngive me some souls as seals of my ministry; but I long to be more like\nmy Master, and more successful in my work. God bless you, dear Mr.\nMueller, and your beloved wife, your Orphanage in Bristol; and may He\nabundantly prosper all the labours of your hands. If it shall never be\nmy privilege to meet you again in this world, I shall hope to be filled\nwith your company in our Father's house above.\"\n\n                                      \"Yours, until He come.\"\n\nThe State of Minnesota, in which St. Paul and Minneapolis are situated,\nis remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil. The land is\ndivided into sections which contain many hundreds of acres each, and the\nfield operations carried on are conducted by hundreds of men, who form a\nlittle army, and work at the same time, with military order and\nregularity. The harvesting machines used are so constructed that the\ncorn is reaped, gathered into sheaves, bound into bundles, and thrown\naside by one single machine; and as there is no ploughing by hand--at\nthe time of seed sowing furrows, seven miles in length, are made across\nthe prairies by ploughing machines which turn up the soil, deposit the\ngrain in the earth, and then cover it over.\n\nOn March 27th we left by rail for Northfield, a village in Minnesota, 42\nmiles from Minneapolis, where (on our arrival at the Archer House) we\nfound the wife of a Baptist minister of Faribault kindly waiting to\nreceive us, who, when only 12 years of age, was converted at Bristol\nthrough my husband's ministry. The next morning (Easter Sunday) Mr.\nMueller preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church to a crowded audience\nfrom 1st Cor. xv.; in the evening, at the Congregational Church, he\naddressed a union meeting of the various Northfield congregations; and\nbefore our departure held a meeting for the Germans at a German Church.\n\nThe morning of March 31st was ushered in by heavy thunder storms,\naccompanied by high wind; but the weather moderated in time for us to\nreach the station at half-past 8. After passing through Faribault, we\nchanged trains at Austin, travelled thence to Plymouth Junction, on one\nof the great prairies, and at half-past 8 p.m. reached Cedar Rapids, on\nthe Red Cedar river (222 miles from Northfield) where we passed the\nnight. The next afternoon our journey was continued, and at 5 p.m. we\narrived at Mount Vernon, Iowa, where a rough, covered waggon conveyed us\nto the village inn. There, in the evening, and twice on the following\nSunday (April 4th) Mr. Mueller preached at the Methodist Episcopal\nChurch, to large attentive audiences; but, as engagements had been made\nfor other places, our visit to Mount Vernon was of brief duration only.\n\nOn April 5th, accordingly, we rose at half-past 4, and at 6 left for\nDavenport, Iowa; where (after waiting at De Witt for an hour and a half)\nwe arrived in the middle of the day. That evening, and on the 6th and\n7th, Mr. Mueller preached at the German Congregational Church; during the\nremainder of our stay at Davenport he held meetings at the Methodist\nEpiscopal, Congregational, and Baptist Churches; and addressed about 200\nstudents at the High School besides.\n\nBefore our departure, we visited Rock Island, in the Mississippi, upon\nwhich a town of the same name stands; and drove through Moline,\ncelebrated for its large arsenal. Rock Island is connected with\nDavenport by a bridge.\n\nOn April 13th we set off for Jacksonville, Illinois; and in the course\nof our journey south, found the weather become as hot as an English\nJuly. At this town (which is 85 miles from Davenport) we arrived at 9.20\np.m.; and, after alighting from the train, were driven to the Dunlap\nHouse, about a mile distant from the station. The next evening Mr.\nMueller preached at the Methodist Episcopal Church, to a large\ncongregation, where, as the thermometer was at 80, its 14 windows and\nthe front doors were left open, that no inconvenience might be\noccasioned from the oppressiveness of the heat.\n\nOn April 15th we visited the \"State Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb,\" a\nmost interesting institution, where the Principal (Dr. Gillett)\nconducted us to a large hall, in which the inmates of the Establishment\n(consisting of 460 deaf and dumb pupils, male and female, and 35\nteachers) were at dinner. All eyes being immediately directed towards\nus, Dr. Gillett explained at once by signs and finger language, who the\nvisitors were; and announced that at half-past one, Mr. George Mueller,\nof Bristol, England, would address the whole assembly in the Chapel;\nupon which, a young man (one of the deaf mutes) stood up, and with his\nfingers said--\"My ears itch to hear him.\" Our attention was then\ndirected to 'the happy family' seated at two adjoining tables, the\nmembers of which included a Pole, some Jews, a German, a Portuguese, a\nFrenchman, a negro, a Swede, an Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotchman,\nan American, and an Italian. At the hour appointed, we went into the\nChapel, which adjoins the Institution, and there, from a high platform\n(with Dr. Gillett standing close to him, who, with his fingers,\ninterpreted as rapidly as the words were uttered) Mr. Mueller preached\nthe gospel to the large community of deaf and dumb, and afterwards (by\nparticular request) gave a very brief account of the Orphan work on\nAshley Down, Bristol, and the other branches of the Scriptural Knowledge\nInstitution. At the close of his address, an attempt was made by\nthe--_hearers_ (can they be called?) to express their satisfaction by\napplause; but the desire was checked instantly by Dr. Gillett. We then\ndistributed some gospel tracts amongst them, and afterwards visited the\neducational and industrial departments of the Institution, including a\nroom devoted to drawing, painting, and other artistic employments, in\nwhich some of the deaf and dumb pupils excel. All the furniture used in\nthe Establishment, as well as the boots and shoes worn by its inmates,\nare made on the premises. This is the largest Deaf and Dumb Institution\nin the world.\n\nBefore our departure from Jacksonville, Mr. Mueller preached twice at the\nPresbyterian Church; but, having made engagements for other places, was\nunable to prolong his visit.\n\nOn April 17th, therefore, we rose at half past 4, set off by an early\ntrain for Bloomington, Illinois (90 miles from Jacksonville), and\narrived there the same morning at half past 10. The next day (Sunday,\nthe 18th), my husband preached morning and evening at the First\nPresbyterian Church, when the congregations were larger than could have\nbeen expected, considering the unfavourable weather, which was\noppressively hot, with very high wind and rain that fell at intervals in\ntorrents. These storms gradually increased, and on Monday, in the middle\nof the night, we were roused by a cyclone, which broke over the town.\nThe high wind then became a hurricane, the sky was in a blaze with\nlightning for hours, loud peals of thunder burst overhead, and rain,\nmixed with hail, swept down upon the streets in a complete deluge. Every\nmoment we expected our windows to be blown in, and feared that a\nfrightful crash in some part of the hotel would announce that great\ndamage had been done; but, happily, towards morning, the wind gradually\nabated, and at last (through the Lord's kindness) the storm ceased. For\na few days the newspapers contained alarming accounts of this tornado,\nand mentioned numerous places devastated by it, amongst which was\nMarshfield, where the destruction was overwhelming.\n\n\"This part of the country\" (said the \"Daily Sentinel,\" of Indianapolis)\n\"was visited last evening by one of the most terrific cyclones on\nrecord. After passing through several miles of country, it struck\nMarshfield about half past 6 p.m., when, an eye witness of the\napproaching storm, described it as a frightful-looking black cloud,\nlined with fleecy white. It was funnel shaped, and moved like a\nscrew-propeller with wonderful velocity, literally destroying and\nblowing away everything in its path, which was about half a mile wide,\nand carrying death and destruction with it. Seventy-eight people were\nkilled instantly, and eighty-five were wounded. Large trees were twisted\noff, telegraph wires were snapped, houses were blown from their\nfoundations, and what was a beautiful, peaceful, quiet town 24 hours\nago, is now a waste of desolation.\"\n\nBefore our departure from Bloomington, Mr. Mueller preached at each of\nthe two Presbyterian Churches, and held one German meeting.\n\nOn April 21st we went to Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana (166 miles\nfrom Bloomington) a beautiful city on the western branch of the White\nRiver, surrounded by an extensive plain. There my husband preached at\nthe Second and Third Presbyterian, the First Baptist, the Meridian\nStreet Methodist, and the German Methodist Churches, and attended a\nmeeting of pastors on the 26th, when he addressed many of his brethren\nin the ministry for an hour.\n\nFrom Indianapolis, on April 28th we proceeded to Cincinnati, Ohio,\nwhere, during our visit of 10 days, he preached three times at the Vine\nStreet Congregational Church, and twice at the Central Presbyterian\nChurch; gave an address at the Friends' Meeting House, conducted three\nservices in the city for the Germans (of whom there are many thousands\nin Cincinnati), addressed about 200 ministers at a pastors' meeting,\nand, on the evening of May 5th, preached in German at Immanuel Methodist\nChurch, Covington, Kentucky, about five miles distant. Besides these\nservices, on May 1st we visited Mr. Shipley's Home for Children, when he\ngave a short address to the young people.\n\nCincinnati is 861 miles from New York. It extends along the northern\nbank of the river Ohio, and has a population of between three and four\nhundred thousand.\n\nFrom there, on May 8th we went to Dayton, Ohio, 56 miles from\nCincinnati, where Mr. Mueller preached the same evening at a German\nChurch. During our stay, he held meetings also at the First Presbyterian\nand First Baptist Churches, and gave an address at the Hall of the Young\nMen's Christian Association.\n\nOn May 11th we visited the \"Central National Soldiers' Home,\" three\nmiles and a half from Dayton, which consists of a group of buildings\nmore than 40 in number, where (up to that time) 4,245 men had been\nreceived, all of whom were soldiers disabled or invalided by wounds,\nreceived during the late war. The Brick Hall (which seats 3,000) is the\nlargest dining hall in the United States. As numbers of these soldiers\nwere either walking or sitting about in the beautiful grounds belonging\nto the Institution, we were able to distribute tracts amongst them. The\naverage expenses of the Home are 400,000 dollars (or L80,000) per annum.\n\nFrom Dayton, on May 12th, we went to Cleveland, Ohio, 190 miles distant,\nwhere, on that evening and the next, my husband preached at the United\nGerman Church.\n\nOn the 14th we left for Buffalo, and the following day continued our\njourney to Dansville, Livingstone County, New York (283 miles from\nCleveland) where, at \"Our Home on the Hill Side\" (a Hygienic\nInstitution) we spent eleven days, having received an invitation from\nDr. Jackson, the Principal of the Establishment, to be his guests.\n\nThere, on Sunday morning (the 16th) Mr. Mueller preached at \"Liberty\nHall\" (the Chapel belonging to the Institution) to the patients, and the\nother inmates of the Home; and in the evening addressed a large, crowded\naudience, at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dansville. During the week,\nhe conducted morning family worship at \"Our Home,\" gave one or two\naddresses at the prayer meetings; and on the following Sunday (May 23rd)\npreached at the English and German Lutheran Churches.\n\nThis Hygienic Institution consists of one large main building, and a\nnumber of smaller detached residences, which belong to it. Here, \"all\nthe natural agencies, such as air, water, food, sunlight, electricity,\nexercise, rest, and recreation are brought into use for the restoration\nof the sick, and obedience to the laws of nature is enjoined, as one of\nthe first requisites for recovery.\"\n\nOn the morning of May 27th, Mr. Mueller gave a farewell address to the\ninmates of \"Our Home;\" at half past 3 we left for Rochester, and in the\nevening went on to the Sanatorium, at Clifton Springs, 90 miles from\nDansville. There he preached at the Chapel on the evening of the 28th,\nconducted family worship on the mornings of Saturday the 29th, and\nSunday the 30th, and preached on the evening of the 30th at the Chapel\nto a large congregation. On Monday evening (May 31st) he preached again\nat the Chapel of the Sanatorium, gave a farewell address at the same\nplace the following morning; and, at a little prayer meeting in the\nevening, we were both commended to the Lord for our approaching voyage\nto England.\n\nAs the time for our departure from the United States had now arrived, on\nWednesday, June 2nd, at 9.22 a.m., we started (via Syracuse, Richland,\nand Watertown) for Cape Vincent, at the north-east extremity of Lake\nOntario; reached our destination at half past 6, and, embarking in the\nboat which was waiting, after a pleasant little voyage of eleven miles\nacross the lake, landed at Kingston at half past 8, and went to the\n\"British American Hotel.\"\n\nOn the following morning we rose at half past 3, went on board the\nsteamer \"Spartan\" and started for Montreal. The vessel was crowded with\npassengers, but, the weather being fine, the voyage was delightful.\nAfter leaving Lake Ontario, we passed through the \"Lake of the Thousand\nIslands\" (as the first 40 miles of the river St. Lawrence are called)\nsurrounded by the most beautiful scenery, reached Ogdensburg in a few\nhours, and at 4 o'clock went down \"the Rapids,\" a dangerous passage,\nformerly considered impracticable, but now, by the help of Indian\npilots, successfully accomplished. In the evening, at the close of a\nlong day's voyage, we arrived at Montreal, changed steamers there, and\nafter a favourable night passage, on Friday morning, June 4th, at half\npast 7, landed at Quebec.\n\nOn the evening of that day Mr. Mueller preached at the Hall of the Young\nMen's Christian Association, but there was no time for him to hold\nfurther meetings before our departure for England.\n\nThe next morning, Saturday, the 5th of June, at 9 o'clock, we went on\nboard the \"Sardinian\" (Allan Line), and soon after 10 began our voyage\ndown the river. In the evening, at 7 o'clock, a meeting was held in the\nforecastle for the sailors, to whom my husband spoke for 20 minutes, and\nat 8 o'clock he conducted a Bible reading in the Chart Room. On Sunday\nmorning, June 6th, he preached in the saloon, and every day had a Bible\nreading with the passengers. After entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence, we\npassed through six hundred miles of fogs and icebergs, which so greatly\nhindered the progress of the ship, that the voyage occupied eleven days\ninstead of only eight or nine. On Sunday morning, June 13th, Mr. Mueller\npreached again in the saloon, and spoke in the afternoon from Job xvii.\n9, at a little meeting in the Chart Room.\n\nOn Wednesday, the 16th, at 3 p.m., we landed at Liverpool, proceeded the\nnext day to Bristol, and arrived on Ashley Down at half past 4; where\nthe dear Orphan boys and girls received and welcomed us with hearty\ncheers. Near the lodge a number of Christian friends also had assembled\nto witness our arrival, and, at New Orphan House No. 3, we had the\npleasure of greeting and shaking hands with nearly all our numerous\nhelpers.\n\nThus ended our sixth missionary tour (marked in every way by the loving\nkindness of the Lord), in the course of which my husband preached 299\ntimes at 42 different places.\n\n\n\n\nSEVENTH TOUR.\n\nCANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.\n\n_From Sept. 15th, 1880, to May 31st, 1881._\n\n\nAfter Mr. Mueller had laboured for ten months in word and doctrine during\nhis first visit to America, though he preached 308 times, he had to\nleave the country with 108 written invitations which he was not then\nable to accept. This led him to go to the United States a second time,\nwhen he stayed nine months, and spoke in public 299 times altogether;\nbut on leaving found, that 154 written invitations remained unaccepted.\nOn this account therefore, after staying in Bristol from June 17th,\n1880, to Sept. 15th of the same year (where he laboured continually at\nthe Orphan Houses, and in pastoral work belonging to the three chapels\nwith which he is connected)--believing it to be the will of God that he\nshould return to the United States, on Thursday, Sept. 16th, we embarked\nat Liverpool for Canada in the \"Sardinian;\" and, after a favourable\nvoyage, on Sept. 26th, at 11 a.m., landed at Quebec.\n\nDuring the passage, he held eight meetings; spoke at three Bible\nreadings, and circulated about 200 little books amongst the passengers\nand crew. On the evening of the 26th, he preached at the Baptist Church,\nQuebec; and during the seven days that we remained held eight other\nmeetings in the city. Whilst at Quebec, a Roman Catholic gentleman of\nhigh position, attended nearly all the services; we conversed with him\nafterwards; and he gladly accepted the three volumes of my husband's\nNarrative.\n\nOn Oct. 4th, at 8 p.m., we left Quebec by rail, arrived at Boston, in\nthe United States, at 10 minutes past 5 on the following afternoon, and\nremained there five weeks. During that period, Mr. Mueller preached many\ntimes at the different places of worship, and attended the \"Market men's\nprayer meeting\" at noon, where he habitually gave addresses. This\nmeeting was frequented chiefly by men of business, who met every day for\nprayer and exhortation from 12 to 1 o'clock. My husband preached also at\nEast Cambridge, Chelsea, Newton, and Newtonville; addressed the students\nof the Theological Seminary at Newton Central, seven miles from Boston,\nand on Oct. 27th held a meeting for the students of the Theological\nSeminary of the University of Boston.\n\nOn Oct. 29th we went to Wellesley College, 16 miles from Boston, where,\non that evening and the next morning, he addressed the 360 lady students\nwho belong to it, many of whom were Christians. Neither in Great\nBritain nor on the Continent of Europe, have we ever seen educational\nestablishments for young ladies equal to the Colleges which are to be\nfound in the United States. When visiting four of these Institutions, we\nheard that the pupils are not only instructed in the various branches of\na first-class education, but that the young ladies are carefully trained\nin a knowledge of housekeeping also, and of the numerous domestic duties\nconnected with home life. By turns, they each do the portion of the\ndaily work of the establishment assigned to them, both for the sake of\nlearning _how_ it should be done properly, and also that physical\nexercise may be healthfully combined with the culture of the mind. The\nreligious training at these Colleges too is excellent, and the spiritual\ninterests of the young ladies are carefully attended to.\n\nBefore our departure from Boston, we visited Plymouth, New England, 37\nmiles distant, where Mr. Mueller preached at the \"Church of the\nPilgrims,\" an interesting place of worship, because it represents the\nChurch erected by the \"Pilgrim Fathers\" on their first arrival in the\nUnited States. Plymouth is noted as being the place where they landed on\nthe 22nd of Dec., 1620, and as containing the site of the first house\never built in New England. At \"Pilgrims' Hall\" are many interesting\nrelics that belonged to them, brought over to America in the\n\"Mayflower,\" which conveyed the strangers across the Atlantic to their\nnew home. At Boston and in the neighbourhood my husband spoke 38 times\nin public altogether.\n\nAfter leaving this city, Milford, Massachusetts, was our next resting\nplace, where four meetings were held; and on Nov. 13th we left for\nAmherst. Here, on the following afternoon, at the College Chapel, Mr.\nMueller addressed 339 students; in the evening, at the Congregational\nChurch, he preached to a crowded congregation, and the next morning\nattended a pastors' meeting, when he addressed fifteen of his fellow\nlabourers in the ministry, whom he sought to encourage in their service\nfor the Lord.\n\nFrom Amherst we went to Northampton, where, at Smith's College, he\naddressed 260 of the lady students. In this town. President Edwards\nresided for many years, and the Church, at which he ministered, was\npointed out. On Nov. 18th we paid a second visit to Mount Holyoke Female\nSeminary, South Hadley, founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon, where, that\nevening and the next morning, Mr. Mueller addressed the 250 lady students\nwho belong to it. From this Institution, many godly young women have\ngone forth as missionaries; and some Christian school-teachers of note,\nwere trained and educated at Mount Holyoke. On the evening of Nov. 19th,\nmy husband preached at South Hadley Church, early on the morning of the\n20th, he gave a third address to the young ladies at the Seminary, and\non the forenoon of that day we left for Hartford, Connecticut, 52 miles\nfrom South Hadley, where he preached six times, and addressed thirty of\nhis brethren in Christ at a pastors' meeting. He held three meetings\nalso in this city for the Germans.\n\nOn Nov. 27th we went to New Haven, Connecticut (the seat of Yale\nCollege, founded in the year 1700); and whilst there, through the\ncourtesy of the President and of the University chaplain, Mr. Mueller had\nopportunities of addressing a considerable number of the students, for\nwhom he held two meetings. This was an important service, which he\ngladly undertook, having heard of great blessing resulting from his\nlabours amongst the students of Colleges, Theological Seminaries, and\nUniversities, both in Europe and America.\n\nAt New Haven he preached twelve times, and once at Fair Haven in the\nvicinity. Four of these meetings were in German; at one he addressed a\nnumber of pastors, and at another spoke to 140 children belonging to the\nOrphan Asylum.\n\nOn Dec. 8th we left New Haven for New York, and remained there fourteen\nweeks and three days; because, during our two former visits to America,\nhaving been able to give but little time, to this, the largest city in\nthe United States, Mr. Mueller considered it right to remain as long as\npossible, that he might do what he could for the spiritual welfare of\nthe people. The population of New York is about one million four hundred\nthousand. It contains upwards of three hundred thousand Germans, and as\nat Brooklyn there are two hundred thousand more, he had abundant\nopportunity of labouring amongst them. The English-speaking population\nof this city, Brooklyn and the neighbourhood, is about one million and a\nhalf. We remained therefore at New York from Dec. 8th, 1880, to March\n19th, 1881.\n\nDuring the whole of this period, my husband preached 69 times in the\ncity, 15 times at Brooklyn, once at Harlem, twice at Hoboken, New\nJersey, twice at Tremont, once at Washington Heights, and twice at Union\nHill, New Jersey--92 meetings altogether, 38 of which were in German.\nThat winter was the coldest that had been known in New York for thirty\nyears, and the many long drives my beloved husband took at night to\nBrooklyn and other places, seven, eight, or nine miles from our hotel,\nwhen the weather was most severe, were very trying, especially as it was\nnecessary to cross a ferry, where the ice was occasionally so thick,\nthat it was with difficulty a passage could be forced through it by the\nsteamer. Constrained by the love of Christ, however, he persevered in a\nservice, that would have been considered, by most persons of his age, an\narduous undertaking; but though he _felt_ the cold, was not allowed to\nsuffer from it in the least.\n\nOn March 19th we went to Newark, New Jersey, a city of about 120,000\ninhabitants, amongst whom there are more than 30,000 Germans. Before our\narrival, a series of services for them had been arranged, so that for\nthree weeks Mr. Mueller preached exclusively amongst the Germans, and not\nuntil a later period, at the large American churches of the city. During\nour visit to Newark, he preached three times at Elizabeth, twice at\nOrange, twice at Bloomfield, gave long addresses at two meetings for\npastors, held three meetings for Christian workers, conducted one\nservice for Theological students, and preached 26 times at Newark.\n\nOn April 18th we went to Port Chester, where he preached four times; on\nthe afternoon of April 22nd we left for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 464\nmiles distant; and on the morning of April 23rd, arrived at the\nMonongahela Hotel, Pittsburg, after travelling all night. There, my\nhusband held nine meetings in English, and nine in German (as Pittsburg\nand Alleghany, an adjoining city, contain about 60,000 Germans) and\nattended two meetings of German and American pastors whom he addressed.\n\nPittsburg (which is a very large manufacturing city) was enveloped in\none vast cloud of smoke, and fine particles of dust, so that, although\nthe weather was at times sultry and oppressive, it was necessary always\nto keep the windows shut. \"This city is at the head of the river Ohio,\nat the confluence of the Alleghany and the Monongahela, and is situated\nin a district extremely rich in mineral wealth, whilst its vicinity to\ninexhaustible coal and iron mines, has raised it to great distinction as\na manufacturing place. The immense extent of its manufactures, and of\nthe coal and oil trade of the city can be realized, from the fact, that\nwithin the limits of what is known throughout the country as Pittsburg,\nthere are 35 _miles_ of manufactories of iron, glass, steel, copper,\noil, woods, cotton, and brass, without including manufactories of\nvarious other materials.\"\n\nOn May 12th we left Pittsburg, and, after passing one night at\nPhiladelphia, returned to New York on the 13th, where Mr. Mueller\nfulfilled a few preaching engagements, before our embarkation for\nEngland on the 21st. During this our third tour in the United States, he\npreached 244 times altogether. At eighteen of these meetings, he\naddressed German or American pastors; fifteen were held for the students\nof Universities, Theological Seminaries, and Colleges; and seven for\nChristian workers.\n\nOn Saturday, May 21st, we embarked for England in the \"Britannic,\" and,\nafter a most favourable passage, landed at Liverpool on May 30th. The\nnext day we returned to Bristol; and, on reaching Ashley Down in the\nafternoon at half-past 4, were cordially welcomed home by many hundreds\nof the Orphan boys and girls, who, with several Christian friends and a\nlarge staff of helpers at the Orphan Houses, were waiting our arrival.\nThus ended this seventh missionary tour, a long journey by land and\nwater, which (like our previous travels) was marked from beginning to\nend by innumerable mercies.\n\n\n\n\nEIGHTH TOUR.\n\nEGYPT, PALESTINE, ASIA MINOR, TURKEY, AND GREECE.\n\n_From August 23rd, 1881, to May 30th, 1882._\n\n\nAfter remaining in Bristol for eleven weeks, on August 23rd, 1881, we\nset off for Dover on our eighth missionary tour; crossed over to Calais\non the 24th, went on to Paris, and, having started for Switzerland on\nthe 25th, arrived at Berne on the 27th.\n\nAfter Mr. Mueller had preached many times there, had held meetings at\nMaennedorf, Waedenschwyl, Zuerich, Basel, and Stuttgart, having been led\nthrough the advice of a brother in Christ, to decide on visiting the\nHoly Land, on Thursday, Oct. 20th, at 2 p.m., we embarked at Marseilles\nin the steamer \"Said,\" for Alexandria. My husband had had it\nparticularly laid upon his heart to comfort and encourage the\nmissionaries from Great Britain, America, Germany, Switzerland, and\nother countries, who labour in the East, because their trials and\ndifficulties are great; and he desired to visit some of the German\ncolonies, that he might preach amongst them, and encourage the German\npastors in their work. After leaving Marseilles, for eighteen hours the\nweather was very rough, but as the wind gradually abated, the sea became\ncalm; we anchored in the Bay of Naples for a few hours, and at half-past\n2 on the afternoon of Oct. 26th, landed at Alexandria.\n\nHere the Scotch minister, the German pastor, and the German deaconesses\nshowed us much kindness; and, during the ten days that we remained, Mr.\nMueller had a considerable amount of work. He preached repeatedly in\nGerman at the Prussian Hospital, held meetings in English at the Scotch\nFree Church, addressed the children of the Scotch Jewish Mission\nSchools, and the children of the American United Presbyterian Mission\nSchools, and preached at the German Church.\n\nOn the afternoon of Nov. 3rd, we went by rail to Ramleh, six miles\ndistant, which has a cooler climate than Alexandria, and contains a few\nhandsome residences, where some of the wealthy inhabitants of the city\nlive. On the way, we passed four cemeteries, one Jewish, another\nCatholic, a third Greek, and the fourth Mahometan. The tombs in the\nMahometan burying ground were of an Oriental character, and very unlike\nmonuments erected over graves in European cemeteries. We passed a palace\nbelonging to the Khedive or Viceroy of Egypt also. A large grove of palm\ntrees laden with dates had a most luxuriant appearance. At Ramleh, at a\nsmall chapel, Mr. Mueller addressed a congregation of Catholics, Jews,\nand Protestants who understood English; and on the 4th, at the Scotch\nMission School, conversed with several Jewish girls, by means of Arabic\ntranslation.\n\nIn going to and from the meetings, we noticed the great variety of\ncostumes worn by persons who passed us in the streets. Loose, white\ngarments, and red turbans with gold ornaments, were worn by the Turks;\nmost of the women were closely veiled, so that their eyes only could be\nseen; and a few had veils arranged in such a manner, that one eye alone\nwas visible. Brass ornaments too, fixed between the eyes, were generally\nworn by _un_-veiled women, which disfigured their countenances much.\nMost of the poor walked about barefoot, and some Arabs, in thin\nclothings, slept soundly, as they lay stretched at full length by the\nside of the pavement in the streets. During our short stay at Alexandria\nthe heat was great; as late in the year as the beginning of November,\nthe thermometer sometimes registered 90 degrees, and the flies and\nmosquitos were most troublesome.\n\nOn Nov. 4th Mr. Mueller preached a farewell sermon at the Prussian\nHospital, in German, and on the 5th we went by rail to Cairo, where he\npreached for the German pastor, and held meetings in connection with the\nAmerican Mission; openings for service being numerous in this city as\nwell as at Alexandria.\n\nOn Nov. 9th, we set off early in an open carriage, with a dragoman as\ninterpreter, to see the Pyramids, ten miles from Cairo, which are\nreached by a good road under a shady avenue of trees; and a little\nbefore noon alighted near \"the great Pyramid of Cheops, 460 feet high,\nwhich was erected as a tomb, about 30 centuries ago, when its\nconstruction employed 100,000 men for twenty years. The exterior of this\nPyramid was once smooth, but it is now rough and uneven, presenting 206\nsteps from one to four feet high, by which an ascent to the summit is\nmade. From this point the view includes the Nile, the minarets of Cairo,\nthe plain where the French defeated the Mamelukes, the site of Memphis,\nthe great African Desert, a multitude of tombs, and two other Pyramids.\nFrom Gizeh to Memphis on the west side of the Nile, about 70 Pyramids\ncan be counted, all burial places of kings, with tombs and chapels\nadjoining them. A quarter of a mile from the nearest Pyramid, lies the\nSphinx, a stone lion 102 feet long, now heavily buried in sand, having a\nhuman face 18 feet in length; but the head and part of the neck only are\nnow visible.\" Our walk to the Sphinx was oppressively warm, for the sun\nshone with a brightness that was dazzling. The heat and glare too from\nthe sandy ground on which we trod, made the atmosphere around like the\nhot air issuing from an oven. Troups of Bedouin Arabs congregate in the\nneighbourhood of the Pyramids, who flock around strangers and volunteer\ntheir services as guides.\n\nBesides visiting the Pyramids, before our departure from Cairo, we\nwalked through the Museum, which contains a valuable collection of\nEgyptian curiosities, consisting of statues, pottery, manuscripts of the\nPharaohs, and other relics, some of which are supposed to be nearly\n4,000 years old; but the most remarkable objects in the Museum are the\nmummies. These are embalmed bodies (principally of Egyptian Kings),\nrecently discovered, and amongst them (it is said) is the mummy of that\ngreat oppressor of the Israelites, the Pharaoh, during whose reign they\nhad so much to suffer, until delivered by Jehovah through His servant\nMoses.\n\nOn Nov. 11th, we left Cairo for Ismailia, and from there proceeded in a\nsmall mail steamer (via the Suez Canal) to Port Said, where we arrived\ntwo hours after midnight. At this town Mr. Mueller preached twice in\nEnglish, and on Sunday, Nov. 13th, at the former of these two services,\nwere fourteen English sailors who had recently been shipwrecked. Their\nlives therefore having been so mercifully preserved, he took advantage\nof the circumstance to press upon them the acceptance of the gospel. At\nPort Said he held only one German meeting, upon which occasion, fifteen\nyoung men and women from Bohemia (who gained a livelihood by exercising\ntheir talent for music) were present, all of whom were Roman Catholics.\nTo each a copy of the Bible or New Testament in German was given, and\nthe fourteen sailors were presented with Bibles or Testaments in\nEnglish. After this German service was over, a meeting was held also\nfor the breaking of bread, where Mr. Mueller gave an address in English.\n\nOn the following day, at 2 p.m. we went on board a large Russian mail\nsteamer bound for Jaffa, and found that, besides the saloon passengers,\nthere were about 100 Russian pilgrims in the steerage of the ship,\naccompanied by their priests of the Greek Church, who were all\ntravelling on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. These pilgrims performed their\nreligious services on deck, where they bowed, crossed themselves\nrepeatedly, and turned their faces eastward towards the Holy Land. They\nlooked very poor, and were dirty in their habits and appearance. Each\nindividual belonging to this company was supplied with a copy of the\nHoly Scriptures in Russ, at a nominal price, by a Scotch Evangelist, and\na colporteur, who labour for the Lord habitually at Port Said.\n\nAfter a favourable passage, on Nov. 15th, at 8 a.m., we arrived off\nJaffa, on the coast of Palestine and (as there is no harbour to the\ntown) anchored about a mile distant from the shore; but on account of\ncholera at Mecca, had to remain there for quarantine four and twenty\nhours. On the 16th, however, at 8 a.m., the Turkish doctors permitted us\nto land; but the passage from the steamer to the shore, in a boat rowed\nby eight Arabs, was exceedingly unpleasant, the waves at Jaffa being\ntremendous when the wind is high.\n\nFrom the ship's deck, the town had a striking and even beautiful\nappearance; but, on walking through the streets, we found them only\nfilthy lanes, and were glad to take up our abode at the Jerusalem Hotel,\nsituated in a pleasant locality, at some distance from the shore. As\nthere is a large German colony at Jaffa, and American and English\nmissionaries reside in the town, Mr. Mueller was able to preach both to\nGerman and to English congregations, and with Arabic interpretation,\nwhen neither of these languages was understood. He preached also at\nSarona, another German colony, three miles distant, and held meetings in\nGerman at the house of a Russian Baron residing at Jaffa. On Nov. 21st,\nat the residence of the English clergyman, he addressed about 60 persons\nat half-past 4; and on the following day preached at a Hall belonging to\nMiss Arnot (a Christian lady from Scotland) who has a large school for\nArabic children. On the morning of the 24th he spoke at the Dispensary\nto a congregation consisting of Mahometans, Jews, and members of the\nGreek Church, when the Syrian doctor (a Christian) translated for him\ninto Arabic; and on the 25th addressed 100 individuals, including\nnatives, and English-speaking persons, with Arabic translation, at the\nsame place. On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 27th, he gave an address at\nthe Baron's house in German, and in the afternoon preached (for the\nEnglish clergyman,) on the second coming of Christ.\n\nDuring our walks at Jaffa, we greatly admired the plantations of orange\nand lemon trees which flourish there luxuriantly; and the high, thick\nhedges of prickly pears, cactus, etc., which abound, show that the\nwarmth of the climate is semi-tropical; but the town itself consists of\npoor bazaars, dismal houses, and dirty, crooked lanes, which repel\nvisitors instead of inviting them to sojourn there.\n\nAfter a sojourn of twelve days at Jaffa, at 7 o'clock on the morning of\nNov. 28th, we started for Jerusalem in an open Russian waggon, drawn by\nthree horses (the only kind of conveyance to be obtained), and noticed\nthat between Jaffa and Ramleh--where we stopped for an hour--the land\nwas tolerably well cultivated, and looked fertile. At half-past 12, as\nthe horses required further rest, we alighted at a little roadside inn,\nand in two hours our journey was resumed. Now we travelled through a\ndistrict called in Scripture, the \"Mountains of Judaea,\" where the aspect\nof the country became wild and desolate. Palestine (spoken of in the Old\nTestament as--\"A land flowing with milk and honey,\" and as--\"The glory\nof all lands\") is now barren, rocky, and uncultivated; and it is evident\nthat the curse of God rests not only upon the Jews, but upon their\n_country_ also, which is now under Turkish rule.\n\nNevertheless, the day is coming when Jehovah will remember the _land_\nalso; for at the return of the Lord Jesus, when Israel as a nation will\nbe converted and restored, \"The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the\nrose.\"\n\nAt length, after a trying journey of twelve hours, over a rough, rugged\nroad, nearly covered with large, loose stones, at a quarter-past 7, we\nreached Jerusalem and alighted _outside_ the Jaffa gate, because\ncarriages cannot enter the city, as the streets are far too narrow and\ntoo badly paved, for conveyances of any kind to be driven along them. At\nthe Mediterranean Hotel, we engaged a pleasant corner room upon the\nfirst floor, from which there was a fine view of the Mount of Olives;\nand the terrace on its flat roof (where we took our daily walks)\ncommanded an extensive prospect. It included the Mosque of Omar on Mount\nMoriah, where the Temple formerly stood, the Church of the Holy\nSepulchre, the Mosque on Mount Zion, which contains the tomb of David,\nthe site formerly occupied by Herod's Palace, the Hospital of St. John\nof Jerusalem, The Citadel, or Tower of David, most of the public\nbuildings in the city, and the Mount of Olives. During our stay at\nJerusalem, Mr. Mueller held numerous meetings in English and in German,\nand preached habitually in these two languages, both with and without\ninterpretation into Arabic. At a church where Arab Christians assemble\nfor worship he preached with translation into that language; at Zion\nSchool (founded by Bishop Gobat) he addressed the teachers belonging to\nit; spoke in English and in German at the Jewish School of Industry;\npreached six times in part of a building called St. John's Palace, now\nfitted up as a German chapel; gave an address at the lecture room of the\nEnglish Church; spoke to the children of a Syrian Orphanage outside the\ncity, two miles distant, with Arabic interpretation; addressed 108 Arab\ngirls in German twice at the Talitha Cumi boarding school; spoke in\nEnglish, without translation, to 135 boys and several gentlemen and\nladies at Bishop Gobat's school; attended a Dorcas meeting two\nafternoons, where he addressed a considerable number of ladies, in\nGerman; spoke a second time at the Syrian Orphanage with Arabic\ninterpretation, and upon two different occasions addressed the patients\nat a small hospital for lepers outside the city. He spoke twice also to\nthe patients of another hospital.\n\nJerusalem, when compared with European cities, is now only a small town\n(round which the traveller may walk in less than 50 minutes) containing\na population of about 28,000, which includes the Jews, of whom there are\n8,000. These Israelites are generally very poor, and settle in\nJerusalem, because money is frequently sent there from Europe by\nwealthier Jews for the relief of their poorer brethren in Palestine; but\nat the present time, there is no indication whatever of any gathering of\nJews on an extensive scale from other countries to their own land. The\nmissionaries who labour amongst them, meet with comparatively little\nencouragement in their work, for the number of true converts from\nJudaism to Christianity is _extremely_ small, a fact mentioned, not as a\ndiscouragement for service, but to stir up Christians to prayer. Since\nour return from Palestine, however, these brethren have (it appears)\nbeen more successful in their labours, and have had great cause for\nthankfulness.\n\nOn the afternoon of Dec. 3rd, we joined a party of English friends, and\nrode on donkeys to Bethany, a mile and a half distant, the English\nclergyman kindly acting as our guide. On our way we crossed the Brook\nKidron, saw the Garden of Gethsemane, now enclosed by a wall; and\nvisited the cave, hewn out of a rock, where it is supposed Lazarus was\nburied. An old ruined house, said to have been the dwelling place of\nMartha, Mary, and Lazarus, was also pointed out. From the summit of the\nMount of Olives the view embraced a portion of the Dead Sea, 25 miles\ndistant, the plain of Jordan, the well-watered plain which Lot chose for\nhimself, the Mountains of Moab in the distance, the neighbourhood of the\nCave of Adullam, and a small part of the river Jordan which flows into\nthe Dead Sea. The weather was magnificent; after sunset the whole scene\nwas lighted up by the full moon which shone brilliantly, and coming down\nthe Mount of Olives, we had the finest view of Jerusalem, that is to be\nobtained from any point. The Garden of Gethsemane, containing eight\nvery old olive trees (considered by some, from their ancient\ncharacteristics, to be coeval with the period of our Lord's history on\nearth) we passed both on our way to and from the Mount.\n\nOn the morning of Dec. 9th, we rode on donkeys to Bethlehem, six miles\nfrom Jerusalem; and, after lunching in a cloister of the Latin Convent,\nvisited a church erected on the spot, where (according to tradition) the\nmanger stood, in which after His birth our Lord was laid. During our\nstay at Jerusalem, we had opportunities also of visiting the various\nplaces of interest for which the city is celebrated. The Via Dolorosa,\nthe Mosque of Omar, (built on the site formerly occupied by Solomon's\nTemple,) the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (erected, according to\ntradition, on the spot where our Lord was crucified), Absalom's Pillar,\nthe Pool of Bethesda, the site of Herod's palace, the ruins of the\nCastle to which Paul was taken, and the Pool of Siloam, were all visited\nin turn. One of the most memorable places in the city is--\"The Wailing\nPlace of the Jews\"--where, every Friday afternoon, shortly before\nsunset, they assemble to bewail the calamities that have befallen their\nland and city. On Dec. 2nd we saw about 200 Israelites gathered close to\nsome immense old stones--the remains of the Temple it is supposed--which\n(after praying and bowing repeatedly) with tears in their eyes, they\nkissed.\n\nAbout one third of the present small population of Jerusalem (28,000)\nconsists of Mussulmans; the rest are Jews, Christians of the Greek,\nArmenian, and Roman Catholic Churches, and a very few Protestants. There\nare 25 Convents, 10 Monasteries, and three large Synagogues within its\nwalls. The Jaffa Gate, situated near the Citadel or Tower of David, is\none of the principal entrances to the city, and the southern portion of\nthe town (between the ancient Temple and part of Mount Zion) is the\nquarter occupied by the Jews.\n\nIn the streets of Jerusalem, day after day, we saw numbers of men,\nwomen, and children standing about half-naked, or clothed in miserable\nrags; and strangers cannot walk a short distance even, without being\nbesieged for alms by the beggars that abound, not a few of whom are\nlepers. They hold up their disfigured hands and arms, and, pointing to\ntheir dreadful sores, follow visitors persistently, entreating them, in\npiteous, lamentable tones of voice, to have compassion on, and help\nthem.\n\nWhilst at Jerusalem, from the windows of our room, we saw many funeral\nprocessions pass, when the remains of the deceased were borne along,\neither in open coffins, or in coffins with glass covers to them; and on\nDec. 23rd, the funeral of a child, belonging to the Greek Church, took\nplace outside the city walls, whose body, was lowered into the grave\n_without_ a coffin.\n\nAs there are no carriage roads in Palestine, with the exception of the\none from Jaffa to Jerusalem; being unwilling to undertake long journeys\nof many miles on horseback, in order to visit the numerous places of\ninterest usually resorted to by strangers, we did not travel any further\ninto the interior of the country; but, after remaining at Jerusalem for\nnine weeks and two days, on Feb. 1st, 1882, returned to Jaffa. There,\nheavy gales of wind, and violent storms of rain, which lasted several\ndays, detained us until Feb. 8th; the weather became also unusually\ncold, and as there were neither stoves nor fireplaces in the rooms of\nour hotel--because fires are seldom wanted in Palestine, we suffered\ngreatly from the wintry climate.\n\nDuring this our second visit to Jaffa, Mr. Mueller again held meetings\nfor the Germans; and on Wednesday, Feb. 8th, the violence of the gales\nhaving to some extent abated, we embarked for Haipha (or Kaifa) on the\ncoast of Palestine, about 70 miles north of Jaffa. Our passage, however,\nin a small boat, to the Austrian steamship \"Flora\" (lying at a\nconsiderable distance from the shore) during weather still tempestuous,\nwas most trying and even dangerous; for, after riding over heavy\nbreakers, and getting clear of the rocks, our boat was tossed about upon\nthe waves for nearly half an hour; and, after at last we reached the\nship, a favourable opportunity of getting a footing on board (to be\nseized just at the right moment as the boat was lifted upwards by the\nwaves) had to be closely watched for, when one after the other, at the\nrisk of our _lives_, we had _to spring_ on to the steep ladder\nstaircase, that led up towards the deck. At 2 o'clock the vessel sailed,\nand on the evening of that day, at half-past 9, we arrived off Haipha,\nwhere, in consequence of the roughness of the sea, and our distance from\nthe shore, it became a question whether we should disembark _at all_;\nbut after considering the matter, and praying over it, we resolved to\nbrave the disagreeables and land. Some time elapsed before the boat,\nwhich had been sent ashore with passengers, returned; but soon after\nmidnight we stepped into it, and, with less discomfort than had been\nexperienced at Jaffa, were rowed safely to the beach. There, some German\nbrethren were waiting our arrival with an open waggon, in which, during\ntorrents of rain, we were conveyed to the Hotel du Mont Carmel, a mile\nand a half distant, where we arrived soon after one o'clock.\n\nThe little town of Haipha is beautifully situated, on the sea shore,\nclose to the foot of Mount Carmel. During the twelve days of our visit\nthere, Mr. Mueller preached 14 times amongst the large colony of Germans,\nsettled at this place, and here the Lord was pleased to grant a\nparticular blessing upon his labours; for his ministry was the means of\nbringing about a complete revival amongst the people, who had previously\nbeen in a very dead state, spiritually. On Feb. 13th, accompanied by\nsome German brethren, we rode on donkeys up Mount Carmel, and when near\nits summit, alighted at a Monastery, where the monks entertained us\nwith cups of black coffee without milk, and glasses of mulberry wine,\nflavoured with lemon juice. They afterwards showed us into a Church\ncontaining (according to tradition) the cave in which Elijah dwelt, and\nfinally led the way to a lighthouse standing on a rock, that we might\nsee, from this elevated point, the magnificent prospect which extended\nfar and wide. It embraced Mount Tabor in the extreme distance, Brook\nKishon, the Valley of the Sea of Tiberias, the Bay and town of Haipha,\nwith the houses of the German colony, the town of Acre the other side of\nthe Bay, the plain of Esdraelon, and the vast expanse of the\nMediterranean, stretching away as far as the eye could reach, which\nlooked as unruffled as a sea of glass, and offered a striking contrast\nto the troubled waves at Jaffa. Being favoured with bright sunshine, and\na beautifully clear atmosphere, the whole scene was viewed under\nparticularly favourable circumstances. The place where Elijah slew the\nfalse prophets of Baal, and by prayer brought down fire from heaven to\nconsume his sacrifice upon the altar, is situated near Haipha; and after\nthe drought of three years and six months, during which there had been\nneither rain nor dew--it was upon Mount Carmel he prayed, that Jehovah\nwould again send rain upon the earth.\n\nBefore our departure from Haipha, we intended to visit Nazareth; but as\nthere was no carriage road even _tolerably_ good, and as riding on\nhorseback for nearly 40 miles would have been objectionable, serious\ndifficulties were in the way. We desired to engage a Russian waggon, and\ndid our utmost to obtain one, but the Brook Kishon (through which our\nroute lay) being swollen from the recent heavy rains, and as the\nadjacent country was partially under water, its owner refused to let us\nhave it, because the journey was impracticable. Though Haipha possessed\nattractions of its own, there were discomforts also connected with our\nvisit; for the hotel accommodation was inferior and uncomfortable. Our\napartment for instance had a rough, dusty, uneven stone floor, without\nany carpet; and even in cold, rainy weather, as it possessed neither\nfireplace nor stove, no fire could be had. The room too, from being\nscantily furnished, was comfortless in appearance; and though the\nsleeping accommodation was clean it was hard and uninviting. The meals,\nhowever, were good, and for wholesome, nourishing food we felt most\nthankful; but let no one visit small towns or villages in the Holy Land,\nand expect to find that they contain European comforts. The English\nclergyman at Nazareth (who had resided there for a considerable time)\ninformed us, that throughout the winter he had one constant series of\n\"domestic miseries\" to contend with. Through the flat roof of his house,\nthe rain leaked in, fuel was scarce and expensive, provisions were dear\nand not easily obtained, meat was tough and of inferior quality, and\noften little besides goats' flesh could be procured. He remarked also\nthat visitors to the Holy Land, who frequent the best hotels at Jaffa\nand Jerusalem, and carry their comforts about with them, can form no\nconception of the real poverty of the country, and of the degraded\ncondition of the _native_ population, as seen in the little towns and\nvillages of the interior. As far as the hotels at Haipha, however, are\nconcerned, they must be superior to the inn accommodation in some parts\nof _Asia Minor_, which, according to the guide books, is \"_execrable_.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of Feb. 20th we left Haipha, in an open waggon; and,\nafter alighting on the sea shore, were carried on the shoulders of Arabs\nacross some shallow water to a boat, which conveyed us to a large\nAustrian steamer bound for Beyrout, Syria. At half-past 8 p.m. the\nvessel sailed; at 7 o'clock the next morning we reached our destination\n(where a most unpleasant rough landing in a small boat awaited us), and\nwere afterwards conducted by a guide to the Hotel de l'Orient, at a\nshort distance only from the landing place.\n\nThere we remained twenty-one days, and besides preaching many times at\nthe Anglo-American Mission Church, and at the Church of the Deaconesses'\nInstitution, Beyrout, both in English and in German, Mr. Mueller\naddressed the students of the Syrian College with Arabic interpretation,\nspoke to the Theological students for an hour, conducted a service for\nthe Moslem girls at Miss Taylor's school, and held three meetings for\nChristian workers, in German. At the residence of Mr. Mott (a mansion on\nthe hill) he held a large drawing-room meeting also, which was attended\nby a number of the principal residents and visitors of Beyrout,\nincluding His Excellency Rustem Pasha, Governor-General of the Lebanon,\nPasha Rickards, Mrs. Eldridge, wife of the British Consul-General, the\nEnglish clergyman and his wife, the Presbyterian minister, some visitors\nfrom the hotels, and many other persons.\n\nThe climate of Beyrout is delightful. Whilst there, we walked through\nthe beautiful gardens which belong to the Pasha, and took a long drive\non the Damascus road, to the foot of the mountains of Lebanon, the tops\nof which were covered with snow. A visit to Damascus, which we had in\ncontemplation, was abandoned, because it would have been necessary to\nrise at 3 o'clock, in order to travel by an early diligence. The journey\nof 70 miles too over a very rough road would have been very fatiguing;\nand having before us the prospect of much more travelling both by land\nand water, we decided upon giving up this excursion. Three days before\nwe left Beyrout an exceedingly heavy sea rolled in for many hours upon\nthe shore, making it impossible to undertake a passage from the land to\na steamer in a small boat; it seemed probable therefore that our\ndeparture might be delayed; but as the wind gradually abated, on March\n14th, we sailed for Smyrna, in Asia Minor, by the Austrian steamship\n\"Jupiter.\"\n\nOn the following morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, we anchored off\nCyprus, in the Levant, which, after Sicily and Sardinia, is the largest\nand most important island in the Mediterranean; and from our cabin\nwindow had an excellent view of it. Larnaca, its chief port, is built on\nflat ground close to the sea; but high mountains rise behind the town,\nand a long range of hilly country extends for miles beyond it. Cyprus\n(of which Nicosia is the capital and seat of Government) is 120 miles in\nlength and about 50 broad.\n\nAfter remaining stationary for some hours, in the afternoon our voyage\nwas continued, and on Thursday, March 16th, we sailed between the\nislands of the Archipelago, where, as the currents are swift and\npowerful, the sea became extremely rough; but towards evening the vessel\ngot into smoother water, and at 10 o'clock we arrived off Rhodes, an\nisland visited by the Apostle Paul, when returning from his third\nmissionary journey.\n\nAt the expiration of a few hours, our voyage was resumed, and the next\nevening we touched at Chios, an island which in 1881 was fearfully\ndevastated by earthquakes. There we remained four hours, and then went\non to Smyrna, where on Saturday, March 18th, we arrived at 5 a.m.\n\nHere Mr. Mueller found work immediately, and, during our stay, preached\non the Lord's days twice, and every afternoon or evening in the week,\nbut generally with interpretation into Armenian, Turkish, or modern\nGreek; and once, when addressing a congregation of Spanish Jews, with\ntranslation into Spanish. On the morning of Sunday, April 2nd, he\npreached to an Armenian congregation with Turkish interpretation, and in\nthe afternoon at the Scotch Church, in English. These services were held\nat different places, including the Hall of the Smyrna Sailors' Rest, the\nDutch Chapel, the Deaconesses' Institution, the Presbyterian Church, and\nthe Armenian School Room.\n\nOn Tuesday, April 4th, we rose early; at 8 o'clock started by rail for\nAyasaloup (a little village 48 miles from Smyrna, close to the ruins of\nEphesus), and on our arrival at half past 10, took a guide to the Mosque\nand to the Temple of Diana, which are the principal ruins in that\nparticular locality. The Mosque bears traces of having been a large,\nmagnificent building, and contains granite columns from the Temple of\nDiana. It is now in a dilapidated state; but the view from it (which\nconsists of extensive mountain ranges, and a long, wide, vast plain,\nextending far away for many miles, until lost sight of, in the distant\nsea) is grand and striking. At no great distance from the Mosque, in a\nvery large hollow, sinking a little below the general level of the\nground, are the ruins of the Temple of Diana; but the devastation there\nis so complete, that no trace whatever (as to form or outline) exists\nof the celebrated building which once occupied this site. One stone can\nscarcely be found upon another, and all that is left of this famous\nTemple are quantities of stones, either lying in heaps, or scattered\nabout in the greatest confusion, and giving not the slightest idea of\nwhat the edifice must have been which stood there many centuries ago.\nEphesus (and the whole neighbourhood for miles around) abounds with\nruins of Theatres, Temples, Aqueducts, Towers, Tombs, Mosques, etc.\nThere is a building to be seen also, called \"Paul's prison,\" now in a\nruinous condition; and a variety of ancient architectural curiosities,\nof a remarkable character, invite the inspection of travellers. The\n_solitude_ and _silence_ of the entire locality, however, are mournful\nand depressing; these numerous relics of departed magnificence, all\ncrumbling away to dust, fill the mind with feelings of solemnity; and\nthe whole scene affords a striking illustration of the vain,\nunsatisfying character of all that this poor world calls great and\nglorious. Happy are they, and they _only_, who, through faith in Christ,\nhave _God Himself_ for their present and eternal portion! In the\nafternoon we returned to Smyrna, and on the following day, at 3 p.m.,\nMr. Mueller preached a farewell sermon at the Hall of the \"Sailors'\nRest,\" where a large number of persons assembled to hear him.\n\nThe next day (Thursday, April 6th), in the evening, we left Smyrna by\nsteamer, reached the entrance of the Dardanelles the following\nafternoon, crossed the Sea of Marmora during the night, and at a quarter\npast 5 a.m. on Saturday, April 8th, reached Constantinople, where, at 6\no'clock, we disembarked, and, accompanied by a guide, walked up a high,\nsteep hill, to the Hotel d'Angleterre, at Pera.\n\nOn the morning of Sunday, April 9th, Mr. Mueller preached in German at\nthe Chapel of the Scotch Jewish Mission, and in the afternoon in\nEnglish, at the Presbyterian Church. On the 11th he spoke in English at\nthe Bible House, and the following evening preached again at the Chapel\nof the Scotch Jewish Mission. On the 13th he addressed an Armenian\ncongregation, at the Bible House in English, with Turkish\ninterpretation, when about 450 persons were present.\n\nThe next day he spoke to the children of an Orphan Institution,\nconnected with the Scotch Mission, and on the 15th held a meeting for\ntwo hours at the Deaconesses' German Hospital, intended especially for\nChristian Workers. On Sunday (April 16th) we went to Bebek (a beautiful\nvillage on the Bosphorus, five miles distant) where my husband preached\nmorning and afternoon in English, at the American Presbyterian Church;\nand the following morning at Haskiog, near Constantinople, addressed the\nchildren belonging to the school of the London Jewish Missionary\nSociety, the orphans of a small Institution, and the children of the\nPresbyterian Jewish Missionary Society. The young people in these three\nschools (about 700 altogether) were Jews. On April 18th he spoke in\nFrench, German, and English, to three different departments of Jewish\nSchools, belonging to the Scotch Jewish Mission; and on the 19th\npreached in German at the Chapel of this Mission, to an assembly\nconsisting principally of Jews, from Lamentations iii. 22-26. On the\n20th he had a congregation of 500 Armenians, whom he addressed with\nTurkish interpretation, and this service was his last at Constantinople.\nDuring our stay of twelve days (including a few meetings which have not\nbeen specified) he spoke eighteen times altogether.\n\nWhilst at Constantinople, we saw the exterior of a few of the principal\npublic buildings in the city, and from the Mosque of San Sophia, which\nstands upon high ground, overlooking the Bosphorus, had a distant view\nof the Barracks at Scutari, where Florence Nightingale and her helpers\nso nobly attended the sick, wounded, and dying soldiers, who fought\nduring the Crimean war. An ancient Egyptian Obelisk from Cairo, about\n3,000 years old, covered with hieroglyphics, was also pointed out. The\nBazaars of Constantinople, consisting of lofty stone cloisters or\narcades, lighted from the top by domes, are extensive, numerous, and\nvery oriental in appearance. Each trade has its particular quarter, and\nthe various dealers have small shops with rooms behind them for their\nwares, which are often of a costly and valuable description.\n\nOn the afternoon of April 14th, a religious service of the dancing\nDervishes was held at one of their Convents, within a few minutes walk\nof our hotel. There were 18 performers altogether, who wore brown\nmantles, and high, round caps made of felt. At a particular signal, they\nall fell flat upon their faces; but afterwards rose, and walked a few\ntimes round the room, with folded arms, bowing and turning slowly many\ntimes. Their mantles were then suddenly cast off, when they appeared in\nlong, full, bell-shaped petticoats and jackets, and, after stretching\nout their arms to the utmost, began gravely and deliberately to dance\nand revolve (that is, to spin round and round like a top) for about\nfifteen or twenty minutes, as rapidly as possible. The sight was\ninstructive, inasmuch as it gave rise to a feeling of the deepest\ngratitude to God that the wild, religious delusions of these poor\nDancing Dervishes were not ours. \"Who maketh _thee_ to differ from\nanother, and what hast _thou_ that thou didst not receive,\" should ever\nbe the language of our hearts. The howling Dervishes we did not see, but\nheard that they carry on their religious performances at Scutari.\n\nOn April 18th we took a drive to \"Sweet Waters\"; on the 19th went by\nsteamer up the Bosphorus, to the entrance of the Black Sea, 20 miles\nfrom Constantinople; and on the 20th visited the great Turkish Cemetery,\nand the English Military Burying Ground at Scutari, in Asia Minor. The\nformer is an enormous grave yard, where many hundreds of thousands of\ncorpses lie interred. It contains numbers of cypress trees, under which\nare the graves of the departed Mussulmans, marked by innumerable high,\nnarrow tombstones, standing upright, and huddled so closely and\nindiscriminately together, that they formed a perfect labyrinth. Most of\nthe graves had each two upright stones, partially painted over with\nbright colours--blue, green, red, or yellow, and bore Turkish epitaphs\nin characters of gold inscribed upon them. On the top of many of these\ntombstones, a carved Turkish fez cap and tassel also stood out in bold\nrelief. The Cemetery was not enclosed, and the vast number of graves it\ncontained, presented such a wretched, confused, disorderly appearance,\nthat no Christian passer-by would ever wish his last earthly\nresting-place to be in a Mahometan Cemetery, amongst Mussulmans!\n\nAfter leaving this burial ground, we passed the Barracks (used as an\nEnglish Hospital during the Crimean war, the scene of Miss Nightingale's\nmemorable labours), and then reached a spot from which there was a fine\nview of the Sea of Marmora, Prince's Islands, and Stamboul (as the\nancient part of Constantinople is called), the Golden Horn, the town of\nChalcedon, etc. A short drive further brought us to the British Military\nCemetery--a beautiful enclosure, planted with trees and shrubs--which\nwas laid out with grass nicely mown, and neat gravel walks. A few\nflowers also were in bloom, and the whole was kept in perfect order,\neither by a gardener, or the lodge-keeper at the entrance. Part of the\nground sloped gradually towards the Sea of Marmora, the sun shone\nbrightly upon the Cemetery, and the whole enclosure looked so peaceful,\nquiet, and even _hallowed_, compared with the Turkish burial-ground we\nhad just quitted, that the superiority of Christianity to Mahometanism\nwas vividly conspicuous. This Cemetery contains the graves of 8,000 of\nthe British officers, soldiers, and sailors, who died of wounds received\nin the Crimean war; and the bodies of British residents in\nConstantinople may likewise (by permission) be interred therein. Upon\nthe first monument that attracted our attention was the following\ntouching epitaph:--\"In memory of Julian Henry Layard, Lieut. 37th N.\nHampshire Regiment, assistant military attache to the British Embassy at\nConstantinople, who died of typhoid fever while on duty with the Turkish\nforces under Suleiman Pasha in the Shipka Pass. Born 15th May, 1850,\ndied Sept. 24th, 1877. This monument has been erected by his parents\nCol. Frederick and Ida Layard, in testimony of their undying loss.\nPitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts, oh! Lord.\" Further on was a\nlarge, handsome, white marble monument, a column between 20 and 30 feet\nhigh, which had angels carved upon it, with folded arms, drooping wings,\nand down-cast countenances; and on one of its four sides was the\nfollowing inscription:--\"A la memoire des officiers, des soldats, et des\nmarins de l'armee Anglaise, et de la flotte, morts pour la patrie, dans\nla guerre de la Russie en 1854, 1855, et 1856. Ce monument a ete eleve\npar la reine Victoria et son peuple, en 1857.\" After leaving the\nCemetery, we took a drive through Scutari before returning to the Hotel\nd'Angleterre. Constantinople, including Stamboul and the suburbs of\nGalata, Pera, Tophana, and Scutari, contains a population of upwards of\na million.\n\nOn April 21st, at 5 p.m., we left for Athens in the \"Minerva\"; arrived\nat the Piraeus, Greece, at 6 a.m. on the 23rd, after a favourable voyage,\nand proceeded immediately by rail to Athens, which is only seven miles\ndistant. There, on the evening of that day, Mr. Mueller preached at the\nChapel of the American Congregational Mission, in English, from Phil.\niv. 6, 7, with translation into modern Greek. On the 26th he spoke at\nthe house of an American Baptist minister, with translation also into\nGreek, and on the following evening, at 8 o'clock, preached at the\nAmerican Presbyterian Mission Chapel, from Romans viii. 28, when Dr.\nKalopothakos translated for him. On the 28th he addressed 257 Greek boys\nat \"The Ragged School,\" in the presence of their teachers and a number\nof gentlemen interested in the Institution; and, after having spoken to\nthe boys, particularly impressed upon these gentlemen (privately) the\nimportance of introducing religious instruction into the school. On the\nmorning of the 29th, at one of the prisons in Athens, he addressed 275\nmale prisoners, for half an hour, who were all assembled in a yard, and\nwent afterwards to a second gaol, where he preached the gospel to 155\nother prisoners. These men, who were very quiet and attentive, listened\nwith much interest to the instruction given. On Sunday the 30th Mr.\nMueller preached at the American Presbyterian Mission Chapel in the\nmorning; and in the evening, at the same place, addressed the largest\ncongregation that had ever assembled in the Chapel during the ten years\nit had been open. On May 1st he spoke there again, and on the 2nd\naddressed the 700 children belonging to Mrs. Hill's School, in German;\nupon this occasion (as at all other times) with translation into Greek.\n\nWhilst at Athens we visited the Areopagus, or Mars Hill;--stood on the\nspot where Paul preached, explored the Acropolis, and saw the ruins of\nmany idol temples, celebrated ancient buildings, etc., some of which are\nsaid to be nearly 4,000 years old. We ascended Mount Lycabettus also,\nand admired the beautiful view obtained from it of Athens and the\nneighbourhood. During the whole of our visit, Dr. Kalapothakos and Mr.\nSakkalarios (two missionary brethren) were most kind and attentive to\nus.\n\nOn Wednesday, May 3rd, we rose at 4, went by rail to the Piraeus, and\nthere embarked for Kalamaki, on the Isthmus of Corinth, 40 miles\ndistant. At 11 o'clock we reached our destination, crossed the Isthmus\nin a carriage (a drive of seven miles) and at Corinth, the other side of\nit, went on board a Greek steamer, bound for Brindisi in the south of\nItaly. At half past 1 we sailed from Corinth, and after touching at\nCorfu on the evening of the 4th, on May 5th, at noon, landed at\nBrindisi. From this town, via Foggia and Caserta, we went on direct to\nRome, arrived in that city on the 8th of May, and remained there until\nthe 18th.\n\nDuring this our third visit to Rome, Mr. Mueller held twelve meetings,\nwhen he preached occasionally in English without translation, but\ngenerally with interpretation into Italian. On May 12th we attended one\nof Mrs. Wall's interesting meetings for Italian beggars (held once a\nweek), when Mr. Mueller addressed them with translation by Mr. Wall. On\nMay 18th we visited Tivoli, 18 miles from Rome, and on the 19th went on\nto Florence (our third visit to that city), where my dear husband had\nfive precious, happy meetings. There, it was our intention to have\nremained longer, but finding it would be desirable that we should return\nto England a little earlier than usual, on May 25th we left Florence for\nTurin, arrived at Paris on the 27th, continued our journey to Dover on\nthe 29th, and arrived at Bristol on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 30th,\nat half-past two.\n\n\n\n\nNINTH TOUR.\n\nEUROPEAN: INCLUDING VISITS TO GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, BOHEMIA,\nRUSSIA, AND RUSSIAN POLAND.\n\n_From August 8th, 1882, to June 1st, 1883._\n\n\nBefore our departure from England to begin another Continental tour; on\nAugust 8th, 1882, we went to Weymouth, where Mr. Mueller preached four\ntimes. On the 14th we left for Dover, crossed over by steamer to Calais\nthe next morning, and taking the train for Brussels which was waiting,\nreached that city in the afternoon at 5 o'clock. On the 17th we\nproceeded to Duesseldorf, where my husband held eight German meetings,\nand on the 26th left for Neukirchen, a village about two miles from\nMoers. There, on Sunday the 27th, he preached in the morning at the\nparish Church, and in the afternoon attended a meeting (held at a large\nHall, in connection with the dedication of the Mission House), at which\nhe was the chief speaker. His address occupied from 4 till 5 o'clock,\nbut the whole meeting, which was crowded to overflowing, lasted for\nfour hours. Early the following morning he conducted family worship in\nthe large dining-room of Pastor Doll's parsonage; where, besides its\ninmates, a congregation from the village had assembled. At 10 o'clock we\nleft for Homberg in a carriage, crossed the Rhine by ferry steamer, and\nwent on by rail to Muelheim an der Ruhr, at which place, on the evening\nof that day, he addressed a large audience of 1,600 persons at the\nVereins Haus. On August 29th, a religious festival was held at this\nVereins Haus, when the building was crowded in every part of it; and at\nhalf-past 2, Mr. Mueller addressed a multitude, numbering from 1,600 to\n1,800. In the evening at half past 8, he spoke at the Vereins Haus for\nthe third time, and again addressed (if possible) a more crowded\naudience than had assembled there in the afternoon.\n\nOn August 30th, early in the morning, we started for Cologne; proceeded\nthence by rail to Bonn, and embarking on board a steamer for Coblentz,\nwent up the Rhine. After a pleasant voyage, surrounded by beautiful\nscenery, at half past 5 we passed the Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, and\nin a few minutes reached our destination. At Coblentz we remained two\nnights; on the morning of Sept. 1st continued our voyage up the Rhine,\nand soon after 5 o'clock landed at Biberich, near Mayence, from which\nplace an open carriage conveyed us to Wiesbaden, five miles distant.\n\nThere Mr. Mueller held eight German meetings, including six at the\nVereins Haus, an address at the Paulinen Institute of German\nDeaconesses, and a service on Sunday morning, Sept. 10th, at the\nprincipal German Protestant Church at Wiesbaden, a large building like a\nCathedral, where he preached at half past nine.\n\nWiesbaden is a beautiful spot, abounding in parks, avenues of trees,\nfountains, flower gardens, etc., and is much resorted to by visitors. It\ncontains 30 different kinds of hot mineral springs, which supply 850\nvarieties of baths.\n\nOn Sept. 11th, we left Wiesbaden for Mannheim, where my husband preached\nfour times; and on the 16th started for Heidelberg, at which place, on\nSunday, Sept. 17th, he preached at the Evangelical Capelle both morning\nand afternoon. During our stay at Heidelberg, he held four other\nmeetings at the same place of worship, and on the 22nd we went to\nMunich, in Bavaria, 210 miles from Heidelberg, a very popish place,\nwhere, though _some_ openings for service presented themselves, none\nwere of a very extensive character. On Sunday, the 24th, in a Hall, at 3\np.m., Mr. Mueller addressed a company of about 200, including children,\nteachers, and young persons, and at 5.15 the same afternoon gave an\naddress to a congregation of 200, at the Hall of \"The Herberge zur\nHeimath.\" On the 27th and 28th he spoke again at this Hall; preached at\nthe Evangelische Hauptkirche on the 29th, and on Sunday afternoon, Oct.\n1st, held another meeting at the same church at 3 o'clock. At half past\n5, he preached at the Deaconesses' Institution also, which was his last\nservice at Munich.\n\nOn Oct. 2nd we left for Vienna (272 miles from Munich) where he held a\nnumber of meetings and we remained 18 days. He preached repeatedly at\nMr. Millard's Hall, at the German Reformed Church, at the Presbyterian\nChurch (in English), at the German Methodist Church, and gave an address\nalso to colporteurs and to other Christian workers. As Vienna is full of\npopery, service for the Lord there is connected with many difficulties.\nOne regulation (by order of the Government) is, that three days' notice\nmust be given to the police before extra religious meetings can be held;\nbut the work of God is carried on, and prospers to some extent, though,\non account of the little religious liberty that exists it is often\ngreatly hindered.\n\nSeveral years ago, the spread of the gospel in Austria was resolutely\nopposed by the Government; for the agent of the British and Foreign\nBible Society, after being turned out of Vienna with all his Bibles, was\nconducted by a military escort to the frontier, and told that he must\nleave the country. Though it is not as difficult to hold Protestant\nservices in Austria now, as was formerly the case, scarcely any real\nreligious liberty is to be found in that land. The Presbyterian minister\nat Vienna said, that, during his comparatively short residence in this\ncity, he had been obliged to appear seven times before the magistrates,\nto give an account of the services at his church, and to answer\nquestions put to him.\n\nVienna is a large splendid city on the Danube; it contains upwards of\none million one hundred thousand inhabitants, and is considered one of\nthe finest capitals of Europe.\n\nOn Oct. 20th, we left and went to Pesth (called also Buda-Pesth) the\ncapital of Hungary, 172 miles from Vienna, where, on Sunday the 22nd,\nMr. Mueller preached at the German Reformed Church in the morning, and at\nthe Baptist Chapel in the evening. During our stay he held seven other\nmeetings also, including a service in English at the Presbyterian\nChurch, a meeting for Christian workers at the School House of the\nJewish Mission, and an address to 50 patients at the Hospital of the\nKaiserwerth Deaconesses, when from 30 to 40 gentlemen and ladies were\nlikewise present. At some of these services, there were many Catholics\namongst the hearers.\n\nOn Monday, Oct. 30th, early in the morning, we started for Bruenn,\nMoravia, 229 miles from Pesth (on our way to Prague), but remained there\ntwo nights only, and on the 31st, walked up to the Spielberg (an ancient\nfortress at Bruenn, upwards of 1000 years old, situated on the top of a\nhill, nearly 900 feet high,) intending only to look at the view obtained\nfrom that elevation; but having (very courteously) been invited by the\nCommander of the garrison to enter the Citadel, we mounted the\nramparts, from which the prospect was extensive. Amongst other places,\nAusterlitz, 14 miles distant, could be seen, where, on Dec. 2nd, 1805,\nNapoleon Buonaparte (whose head quarters were at Bruenn) gained a victory\nover the Russians and the Austrians. Our guides (an officer and a\nsoldier) afterwards conducted us down several flights of steps into the\ndungeons of the Spielberg, and, with a lighted torch, led the way\nthrough those infamous abodes of the cruelty of years gone by. Here,\nBaron Trenck, General Mack, and Silvio Pellico were imprisoned long ago;\nthe dreadful tortures, formerly inflicted upon robbers, murderers, and\npolitical offenders, as well as upon Protestants (there is reason to\nbelieve), were minutely described to us; and the horrible scenes, which\nthen took place in these places of confinement, were specially detailed.\nOne of these dark vaults contained a stone figure, representing a man\nstretched out at full length upon a rack, with his arms drawn up above\nhis head, to show the manner in which the limbs of victims used to be\ngradually torn from their bodies, by means of machinery, which ruptured\ntheir blood vessels also, and dislocated their bones. Then, on the walls\nwere iron rings, to which, with outstretched arms, condemned criminals\nwere fastened in such a way that it was impossible to move; and there,\nwithout food or water, they were left to perish. In another of the\ndungeons was a second figure, of a man in chains, standing upright, but\nfettered so cruelly that, if it had been a living human being, the agony\noccasioned by the bonds would have been excruciating. Some of the\nprisoners, not killed by cold and hunger, were partially devoured by\nrats, whilst others were slowly put to death by atrocities that rivalled\neven the dread punishments of the Inquisition. A wall smeared with\nblood, which has left indelible stains, was also pointed out, together\nwith a trap-door in the roof of these dungeons, through which the\ncondemned were let down into their dreary sepulchres beneath.\n\nIt may seem almost strange to dwell even for a moment upon such horrors;\nbut it should be remembered that the terrible deeds just adverted to\nwere _facts_. Many of the Lord's people too, in years gone by, have had\nto pass through fiery trials such as these. Deep gratitude should\ntherefore fill our own hearts, that _we_ do not live at a time when, and\nin countries where, such outrages can legally be perpetrated. The\npresent Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph I. (as our guides informed\nus) once caused himself to be shut up for a few hours in the dungeon\nwhere the second figure was, in order that he might be able, practically\nto enter into the terrible character of these prisons; and afterwards\ngave orders, that no condemned criminals should in future be subjected\nto such punishments.\n\nOn Nov. 1st we left Bruenn, and went to Prague, the capital of Bohemia,\n135 miles distant, where Mr. Mueller preached six times, including an\nEnglish meeting on Nov. 3rd, at the Presbyterian Church, and two\nservices on the 6th and 7th, in German, at the American-Bohemian Chapel,\nwith translation into the Bohemian language, by the pastor, Mr. Clark.\nAt most of these meetings, nearly half the hearers were papists, several\nof whom (we heard) were deeply impressed by the preaching of the gospel.\nInformation also reached us, whilst at Prague, that much blessing\nresulted from my husband's ministry at Pesth.\n\nPrague has a population of about 163,000, out of which number 12,000 are\nJews, who live in the Judenstadt. The city contains 50 Churches, 22\nChapels, 17 Convents, 2 Protestant Churches, 11 Synagogues, and more\nthan 300 Factories. John Huss used to preach at St. Gallus Church; but\nhe, and his friend Jerome of Prague, were eventually burned at\nConstance, as heretics.\n\nAfter a visit of a few days only, on Wednesday, Nov. 8th, early in the\nmorning, we left for Dresden, Saxony, via Bodenbach, on the Bohemian\nfrontier; travelled through a district (called from its mountainous,\npicturesque character the \"Switzerland of Saxony\"), and reached Dresden\nin the afternoon. There, in consequence of letters not having reached\nthe persons for whom they were intended, no meetings could be arranged\nfor Mr. Mueller until Sunday evening, Nov. 12th, when he preached in\nEnglish at the Presbyterian Church. On the 14th he gave an address in a\ndrawing-room, at the house of Col. Rose, and on the 15th held a meeting\nin the large saloon of Braun's Hotel.\n\nOn Nov. 16th we went to Leipsic, where, the following evening, he spoke\nat a drawing-room meeting, held at the house of Dr. Koenig; and on the\n18th addressed about 200 students at a Hall in the city, in the presence\nof some of their professors, and a few other gentlemen. On the morning\nof Sunday, the 19th, he spoke to 300 children, some students and other\npersons, at Dr. Koenig's Sunday-school; and in the afternoon at 5\no'clock, preached at the American Chapel, in English.\n\nDuring our short visit to Leipsic, the winter set in with great\nseverity, and snow fell the greater part of each day that we remained.\nThis city is the great centre of the German book trade; it has 300\nbooksellers' Establishments, representing 4,500 firms; 300 hand- and\nsteam-presses, and a Booksellers' Exchange.\n\nOn Monday, Nov. 20th, we left Leipsic for Halberstadt, and early in the\nafternoon walked through the town (a quaint, old-fashioned one) to the\nCathedral School, which is near the spot, formerly occupied by the\nbuildings, where, in his youthful days, my husband went to school. We\nvisited the fine, old Protestant Cathedral also, containing the altar,\nat which, when a young man, he received the Lord's supper for the first\ntime.\n\nThe next morning, a carriage conveyed us to Kroppenstaedt (where he was\nborn), twelve miles distant, when he remarked that the road leading to\nthis town looked much the same as it did when he was a boy, except that\nfruit trees have since been planted on each side of it, instead of\npoplars. At Kroppenstaedt (visited on this occasion for the first time\nsince his childhood), Mr. Mueller held two meetings at a large Hall, when\n(by particular request) he gave an account of his life and labours, and\npreached the gospel also, fully and faithfully at the same time, to the\ninhabitants of his native place, who flocked to hear him in such numbers\nthat the building was crowded to overflowing. These two meetings were\nvery precious ones. Early on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 23rd, we\nvisited the house in which he was born, and then drove to Heimersleben,\nthree miles distant; where the pleasant dwelling that became his home\nafter his parents had removed from Kroppenstaedt, looked much the same as\nit did many years ago.\n\nOn the afternoon of that day we left Heimersleben, and proceeded to\nBerlin, 110 miles distant, where, on Sunday evening, Nov. 26th, he\npreached at St. Johannes Kirche, Alt Moabit, to a large congregation;\nand held meetings at Christus Kirche the three following evenings. On\nthe 30th Nov. he spoke at the Vereins Haus, and on Dec. 1st preached at\nthe Hall of the Moravian Brethren. The afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 3rd,\nwas devoted to a meeting for 100 Sunday School children, at the house\nof some Christian ladies; and in the evening at 6, he preached again at\nSt. Johannes Kirche, Alt Moabit. At a drawing-room meeting held at the\nhouse of Mr. Gaertner, on Dec. 2nd, he addressed about 80 gentlemen and\nladies, and on the 5th preached at Jesus Kirche in the evening, from\nJohn xiv. 13, 14. On the 6th and 8th he held meetings again at this\nchurch; spoke at the Hall of the Moravian Brethren on the 7th; and on\nSunday, Dec. 10th, preached at Jesus Kirche in the morning, and at St.\nJohannes, Alt Moabit, in the evening. The congregations at all these\nservices were generally large.\n\nEarly on the morning of the 11th we left Berlin, and travelling by rail\nvia Schneidemuehl, arrived at Dantzic (a large, fortified town in\nNorthern Prussia, beautifully situated close upon the Baltic, 284 miles\nfrom Berlin), in the evening at 6.45. Here Mr. Mueller preached twice at\nthe Hall of the Moravian Brethren, four times at the Garrison Church,\nand once at the Baptist Chapel. At Dantzic he found two of his old\nChristian University friends, both of whom, after having been 50 years\nministers in the town, had celebrated their Jubilee. The intercourse he\nhad with them was of a very pleasant and profitable character.\n\nOn Thursday, Dec. 21st, we rose soon after 5; left Dantzic by an early\ntrain for Dirschau, and arrived at Koenigsberg in the afternoon at\nhalf-past 2. There, on Dec. 21st and 22nd Mr. Mueller preached in the\nevening at a large Hall to upwards of 500 persons; on the 23rd he gave\nan address at the Moravian Church, and on the 25th (Christmas day) spoke\nagain at the same place. On the morning of the 26th (second Christmas\nday in Germany,) at half-past 9, he addressed an immense audience of\n3000 people at the Tragheimer Kirche, a large building which was crowded\nto the utmost; and in the afternoon spoke at the Moravian Hall, where\nhundreds could not get in for want of room. On the 27th he preached\nagain at the Tragheimer Kirche; and on the 28th held a meeting at the\nsame church, which was his closing one at Koenigsberg.\n\nOn Friday, Dec. 29th, at 12.36 in the middle of the day, we left for St.\nPetersburg, and at half-past 4 reached the Russian frontier, where an\ninspection of passports and the usual Custom House examination of\nluggage occasioned a detention of two hours. At half-past 6, however, we\nobtained a comfortable sleeping compartment in a Russian train, heated\nwith warm air, containing two couches, double windows and a little\ntable, in which we passed the night; and the next morning awoke, to find\nourselves travelling through a vast wilderness of snow, with which every\nthing around was laden. On the evening of that day (Dec. 30th), at 6\no'clock, we reached St. Petersburg after a journey of 685 miles from\nKoenigsberg, and found Colonel Paschkoff, and Princess Lieven at the\nstation, kindly waiting to receive us. The latter (a beloved sister in\nthe Lord), pressed us immediately to make her house our home, but though\nwe at first declined the invitation,--after passing two nights at an\nhotel, as she still urged us to become her guests, we accepted this\noffer of hospitality, and were entertained at her mansion with the\nutmost kindness and affection during the whole of our long visit to St.\nPetersburg.\n\nOn Sunday morning, Dec. 31st, Mr. Mueller preached morning and evening in\nEnglish, at the British and American Chapel, with much help; and, as\nlong as we remained, was engaged day after day in important service for\nthe Lord. During our stay he preached 16 times at the British and\nAmerican chapel, in English; 8 times in German at the German Reformed\nChurch, 11 times in German at the Moravian Church; held three meetings\nfor the Swedes at the British and American Chapel, with translation into\nSwedish, attended three pastors' meetings, held 5 large drawing-room\nmeetings at Col. Paschkoff's mansion, conducted two at the residence of\nCount Korff, and held 35 at the house of Princess Lieven. Besides these\nservices he received visitors as inquirers every day, and had about 40\nprivate interviews of an hour, one hour and a half, or two hours, with\nthree, four, and five Christian workers at a time, either for the\npurpose of answering questions that had been sent in, or in order to\nconverse with them about different portions of the word of God. At an\nEvangelical Hospital in St. Petersburg, on the afternoon of Feb. 2nd, he\ngave two addresses also (in German) to the patients, who occupied four\nwards; spoke to about 40 children, belonging to a separate Institution\nunder the same roof afterwards; and addressed 30 deaconesses, who labour\namongst the patients and the children. On the evening of Friday, Feb.\n9th, at 9 o'clock, we were somewhat startled by a visit from the police,\nwith a summons for my husband to appear early the next morning before\ntheir chief officer; when, on presenting himself at the Police Court, he\nwas charged with having held meetings with translation into Russ, for\nwhich no permission had been given by the Minister of the Interior.\nThough he was treated with great courtesy by this functionary, who shook\nhands with him, and offered a sort of half apology for acting as he did;\nfrom that time the services at Col. Paschkoff's house were stopped; but\nMr. Mueller was allowed to continue his other labours without hindrance.\nThere is, however, so little real religious liberty in Russia, that the\nspread of the Gospel is lamentably prevented by the absence of it.\n\nDuring our visit to St. Petersburg, the cold was occasionally very\nsevere, and more intense than we ever found it in Canada, or in the\nUnited States. On March 13th we visited the Church of St. Peter and St.\nPaul, which contains the tombs of the Russian Emperors, and passed the\nspot where Alexander II. was murdered by the Nihilists. A visit in a\nsledge also, to a little settlement of Laplanders encamped on the Neva\nupon the ice, gave some idea of the habits of these poor people. A party\nof Lapps (clothed in skins and furs, with the warm side turned inwards\nand looking as if _sewn up_ in their thick garments) were standing near\na tent. They wear no under linen (we were told), and never wash\nthemselves nor change their clothes, except when they fall off from dirt\nand constant use. The interior of a Laplander's hut too, upon the ice,\npresented a miserable, uncomfortable appearance. It consisted of a tent\nmade of skins, with the fur turned inwards, and had an opening at the\ntop, which answered the double purpose of chimney and of window. An iron\npot, containing soup, was suspended over a small fire in the centre of\nthis tent, and the floor of ice in the hut was covered by rugs; but all\nthe domestic arrangements inside were of a most repulsive character, and\nmade us feel unspeakably thankful for the mercies and comforts of our\nown Christian home.\n\nThe population of St. Petersburg is about 800,000. \"This city is\nsituated on the river Neva, near its entrance into the gulf of Finland,\n15 miles from Lake Ladoga, where it is divided by islands into four\nchannels called the Great and Little Neva. The dead flat, on which the\ncity now stands, was once a morass, occupied by a few fishermen's huts,\non the site of which Peter the Great began to build in 1703, by erecting\na small hut for himself, and some wooden hovels near the Old Fort. The\nbest streets are broad and spacious, and the Nevski Prospekt, is nearly\nthree miles in length.\"\n\nThe last time Mr. Mueller held a meeting in _English_ at St. Petersburg\nwas at the British and American Chapel, where on Sunday evening, March\n11th, he preached a farewell sermon to a large congregation from Prov.\niv. 23; \"Keep thine heart with all diligence, for out of it are the\nissues of life.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, March 20th, at half past one p.m., we left for Warsaw, in\nRussian Poland, and arrived there the following evening at 10 minutes\nafter 8, after a long, fatiguing journey of 700 miles. On the morning of\nMarch 25th (Easter Sunday) my husband preached in German at a Baptist\nChurch; during the week he held four meetings at private houses, and on\nthe following Sunday (April 1st) preached again at the Baptist Church;\nbut as the Russian authorities would not allow him to use the German\nReformed Church, our stay at Warsaw was of brief duration only. This\ncity contains 401,000 inhabitants, 127,500 of whom are Jews. There are\n217 Synagogues and 653 Talmudical schools at Warsaw, and throughout the\nwhole of Poland (where there are more Israelites than in any country in\nthe world) the Jews number upwards of a million.\n\nHaving received a kind invitation to the house of Mr. Janatz, a\nconverted Jew, who lives in the country, 14 miles from Warsaw; on Monday\nmorning (April 2nd), we went by rail to Pruszkow, from which place, a\ncarriage and four conveyed us over four miles of ploughed fields, and\nacross much marshy ground to his residence. After remaining there two\nhours, a meeting was held in the afternoon, at an Orphanage, a mile and\na half distant, where my husband addressed a large company, including\norphans, country people, and the workmen on Mr. Janatz's estate.\n\nOn the morning of April 4th, at a quarter past 10, we left our friend's\nhouse, returned by carriage to Pruszkow and there took the 11.45 train\nfor Lodz (a large manufacturing town in Poland, the second in size to\nWarsaw and 100 miles from it), where, after changing trains at Koluszki,\nwe arrived at 4 o'clock. There, during the twelve days that we remained,\nMr. Mueller preached twelve times at the German Baptist Church, upon each\noccasion to a most crowded congregation, for evening after evening\nthroughout the week, as late as half past 8, about 1,200 hearers\nassembled, who listened to him with the deepest interest. On the morning\nof April 10th he received a note in German, of which the following is a\ntranslation:--\"I, and almost the whole population of this town, in the\nname of the Lord Jesus, entreat that you will have the kindness to\nremain with us till after next Sunday. In the name of many thousands I\nthank you for your ministry.\"\n\nAs every evening during our stay, this church continued to be crowded to\nthe utmost, and avowed infidels even were moved to tears; as the\npreaching too was the theme of conversation in the factories, public\nhouses, and in many private families, our visit to Lodz was prolonged\nuntil April 15th, on which day we rose at a quarter before 5, and after\na long journey of 325 miles, arrived at Breslau (Silesia) at half-past\n10 that night. There, during the three weeks that we remained, having to\ngive himself in earnest to the writing of the new Report, and to write\nnumerous letters of importance, my husband did not engage at all in the\npublic ministry of the Word. On the morning of May 7th, we left for\nDresden; arrived there at 5 minutes to 4 in the afternoon, and in the\nevening went to the Scotch Church, where he preached in English to a\nvery small congregation compared with the multitudes who had thronged\nthe church at Lodz. On the 8th we proceeded to Hanover; remained there\nuntil the 11th, and then, continuing our journey to England (after\npassing one night at Cologne, a day and a half at Antwerp, and sleeping\nat Calais, where we arrived at one o'clock in the middle of the night),\non the afternoon of May 14th, at half past one, embarked in the\n\"Calais-Douvres,\" and landed at Dover at 3 o'clock. From there we went\non immediately to London, where Mr. Mueller spoke seven times at the\nMildmay Conference Hall, preached once at Upper Clapton, and once at\nKilburn Hall, at the West End of London. On May 26th he held a meeting\nin German, for a large company of Jews at Whitechapel, and on the 29th\nwe spent a few hours at Belstead, near Ipswich, where he gave an address\nat a large school for young ladies; the service was attended also by\nsome of the clergy and many residents from the town and neighbourhood.\nThe meetings just mentioned brought this ninth tour to a close. In the\ncourse of his nine missionary journeys, my husband has preached or\notherwise spoken in public about Two Thousand Four Hundred times, and we\nhave travelled sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight miles\nby land and water altogether. On June 1st we left London at 3 p.m.,\nreached Bristol at 5.36, and, upon our arrival on Ashley Hill, were most\nheartily welcomed home, by a very large company of the Orphan boys and\ngirls, whose warm, affectionate greetings almost melted us to tears.\n\nAs these nine long tours are now ended, we desire most gratefully to\nrecord our praises and thanksgivings to the Lord for all the mercies and\nblessings connected with them, and earnestly commend ourselves to the\nprayers of the believing reader for any future service of the same\ncharacter in which we may be engaged, desiring especially that help and\nguidance may be granted us with reference to our approaching missionary\nvisit to India, for which country (God willing) we purpose to embark on\nSept. 26th of the present year (1883).\n\n\n\n\nJUST PUBLISHED.\n\nA Brief Account\nOF\nTHE LIFE AND LABOURS\nOF\nGEORGE MUeLLER.\n(of BRISTOL.)\n\nBy MRS. MUeLLER. Price 1s. Nisbet & Co., London; Bible and Tract\nWarehouse, 34, Park Street, Bristol; and through all Booksellers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOOKS BY MR. MUeLLER.\n\nNarrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller, in 3\nvolumes, 9s. 6d.\n\nJehovah Magnified. Addresses by Mr. Mueller. Cloth flush, 2s.; embossed\ncloth, 3s.; cloth elegant, gilt edges, 4s.\n\nCounsel to Christians. Addresses by Mr. Mueller. Cloth limp, 1s.; cloth,\nboards, 1s. 6d.; bevelled boards, 2s.\n\nAnswer from the Holy Scriptures to the Four most Important Questions.\n1-1/2d.\n\nThe Privilege and Blessedness of Giving. 1d.\n\nThe Second Coming of Christ. 1d.\n\nAddress to Young Converts. 1/2d.\n\nSecret of Effectual Service. 1/2d.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTranscriber's Notes:\n\nPunctuation has been standardised.\n\nCommas were removed after Bible chapter references; for example, Rom.\nviii., 18 changed to Rom. viii. 18\n\nTable of Contents, changed \"2\" to \"3\" (page number for Second Tour)\n\nPage 13, changed \"P.M.\" to \"p.m.\" (at 3 p.m. to about)\n\nPage 18, changed \"nly\" to \"only\" (sun shines only)\n\nPage 24, changed \"Amsterdan\" to \"Amsterdam\" (industry of Amsterdam)\n\nPage 29, changed \"millons\" to \"millions\" (millions of tons)\n\nPage 77, changed \"Cateract\" to \"Cataract\" (Cataract of Diamonds)\n\nPage 82, changed \"afternon\" to \"afternoon\" (On the following afternoon)\n\nPage 110, changed \"Gulich's\" to \"Gulick's\" (held at Mr. Gulick's church)\n\nPage 118, changed \"Marseille\" to \"Marseilles\" (stopped at Marseilles)\n\nPage 128, changed \"quantites\" to \"quantities\" (quantities of lava)\n\nPage 147, changed \"pre-milenial\" to \"pre-millennial\" (Christ's\npre-millennial advent)\n\nPage 150, changed \"Sherborne\" to \"Sherbourne\" (pastor of the Sherbourne)\n\nPage 164, changed \"Indianopolis\" to \"Indianapolis\" (Sentinel,\" of\nIndianapolis)\n\nPage 179, changed \"Zurich\" to \"Zuerich\" (Zuerich, Basel, and)\n\nPage 207, changed \"intruction\" to \"instruction\" (introducing religious\ninstruction)\n\nPage 225, changed \"Pruskow\" to \"Pruszkow\" (carriage to Pruszkow)\n\nPage 226, changed \"a\" to \"at\" (landed at Dover)\n\n\"Kalapothakos\" and \"Kalopothakos\" both used in this text.","title":"The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George M\u00fcller (of Bristol)","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":58656}