"Again and again," writes Mr. Mueller, "I have had cheques amounting
even to L5000, from individuals whose names I knew not before
receiving their donations."
Other paragraphs in the report read thus: "Received anonymously five
large cheeses; received a box of dessert knives and forks, a cruet, a
silver soup ladle and a silver cup; from Clifton, twelve tons house
coals; from Bedminster, a monster loaf, 200 lbs. in weight, and ten
feet long and twenty-one inches broad".
On 1st August L82 5s. came "from a Christian gentleman in Devon, who
for more than forty-five years has from time to time helped us, though
I have never seen him".
"To-day," writes Mueller on 7th September, "our income altogether was
about L300--a plain proof that we do not wait on the Lord in vain; for
every donation we receive is a direct answer to prayer, because we
never ask a single human being for anything." On 29th October Mr.
Mueller writes: "For several days very little has come in for the
support of the various objects of the institution. To-day, again, only
about L15 was received by the first four deliveries of letters; at
5:45 I had for the third time that day prayer with my dear wife,
entreating God to help us, and a little after 6 p.
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