Easter Season: Great time to buy George Müller's biography: get it for $15 along with 11 other FREE

Rosie Perera · April 2010

The 12 volume George Müller collection has made it across the 100% hurdle in community pricing. This means you are guaranteed to be able to have it for at most $18 if you order it before Friday at noon. But if enough people do this (perhaps only a couple; we're so close) the price will come down to $15. Consider that the purchase price for a great biography of a great man of faith (best known for his orphanages and the way he trusted God for the financing of them), and get another 11 works by and about Müller thrown in for free. And this is a great time of year to do it, as you'll see below.

George Müller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson, was one of the first biographies to appear after Müller’s death. Pierson wrote it in order to update Müller’s own 4-volume autobiography. Where Müller’s autobiography is written in chronological order, Pierson’s biography is arranged topically, examining the broad themes and spiritual principles of Müller’s life. This illustrated volume also contains an introduction by Müller’s son-in-law, James Wright.

Here is a fascinating episode from Müller's life, of which this Easter season is the 190th anniversary. The story whets our appetite to find out how he made it beyond this stage in his life to the great faith he was known for:

"When he came to the age for confirmation he had to attend the class for preparatory religious teaching; but this being to him a mere form, and met in a careless spirit, another false step was taken: sacred things were treated as common, and so conscience became the more callous. On the very eve of confirmation and of his first approach to the Lord's Table he was guilty of gross sins; and on the day previous, when he met the clergyman for the customary 'confession of sin,' he planned and practised another shameless fraud, withholding from him eleven-twelfths of the confirmation fee entrusted to him by his father!

"In such frames of mind and with such habits of life George Müller, in the Easter season of 1820, was confirmed and became a communicant. Confirmed, indeed! but in sin, not only immoral and unregenerate, but so ignorant of the very rudiments of the Gospel of Christ that he could not have stated to an inquiring soul the simple terms of the plan of salvation. There was, it is true about such serious and sacred transactions, a vague solemnity which left a transient impression and led to shallow resolves to live a better life; but there was no real sense of sin or of repentance toward God, nor was there any dependence upon a higher strength: and, without these, efforts at self-amendment never prove of value or work lasting results."