George Müller and the Empty Breakfast Table
On a gray morning in 1838, three hundred orphans sat at long wooden tables in Bristol, England. The plates were empty. The cups were empty....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 146:5-10.
On a gray morning in 1838, three hundred orphans sat at long wooden tables in Bristol, England. The plates were empty. The cups were empty. There was no food in the kitchen and no money in the account. George Müller, a Prussian-born pastor who had opened his orphanage on nothing but prayer, bowed his head and thanked the Almighty for the breakfast He was about to provide.…
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