George Müller
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first heard Aug 2026
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What then was to be done?
For the children, especially the younger infants, I felt deeply concerned that they might not suffer through want of warmth.
but how were we to obtain warmth the introduction of a new boiler would in all probability take many weeks the repairing of the boiler was a questionable matter on account of the greatness of the leak but if not nothing could be said of it till the brick chamber in which it is enclosed was at least in part removed but that would at least as far as we could judge take days and what was to be done in the meantime to find warm rooms for three hundred children
It naturally occurred to me to introduce temporary gas stoves, but on further weighing the matter it was found that we should be unable to heat our very large rooms with gas, except we had many stoves which we could not introduce, as we had not a sufficient quantity of gas to spare from our lighting apparatus.
Moreover, for each of these stoves we needed a small chimney to carry off the impure air.
This mode of heating, therefore, though applicable to a hall, a staircase, or a shop, would not suit our purpose.
I also thought of the temporary introduction of Arnott's stoves, but they would have been unsuitable, requiring long chimneys, as they would have been of a temporary kind, to go out of the windows.
on this account the uncertainty of their answering in our case and the disfigurement of the windows led me to give up this plan also but what was to be done gladly would i have paid a hundred pounds if thereby the difficulty could have been overcome and the children not be exposed to suffer for many days from being in cold rooms at last i determined on falling entirely into the hands of god
who is very merciful and of tender compassion and i decided on having the brick chamber opened to see the extent of the damage and whether the boiler might be repaired so as to carry us through the winter the day was fixed when the workmen were to come and all the necessary arrangements were made the fire of course had to be let out while the repairs were going on
But now see, after the day was fixed for the repairs, a bleak north wind set in.
It began to blow either on Thursday or Friday, before the Wednesday afternoon, when the fire was to be let out.
now came the first really cold weather which we had had in the beginning of that winter during the first days of december what was to be done the repairs could not be put off i now asked the lord for two things viz that he would be pleased to change the north wind into a south wind
and that he would give to the workmen a mind to work.
For I remembered how much Nehemiah accomplished in fifty-two days while building the walls of Jerusalem, because the people had a mind to work.
Well, the memorable day came.
The evening before, the bleak north wind blew still, but on the Wednesday, the south wind blew, exactly as I had prayed.
The weather was so mild that no fire was needed.
The brickwork is removed, the leak is found out very soon, the boilermakers begin to repair in good earnest.
about half-past eight in the evening when i was going home i was informed at the lodge that the acting principal of the firm whence the boilermakers came had arrived to see how the work was going on and whether he could in any way speed the matter i went immediately therefore into the cellar to see him with the men to seek to expedite the business in speaking to the principal of this he said in their hearing the men will work late this evening and come very early again to-morrow
We would rather, sir, said the leader, work all night.
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