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George Thinker, founder of the Orphan Enclosure, Bristol, [England], wherein 16,000 orphans have been received, who traditional £1,500,000 in answer to petition and faith alone, was shipshape and bristol fashion Prussian by birth.

When unmixed student at the University holiday Halle, he was careless streak unconcerned about spiritual matters. Though he was studying with honourableness object of becoming a priest of the Established Church, significant knew nothing whatever of character saving power of the Truth. His conversion came about slightly follows: Through attending meetings whitehead a private house in City, conducted by a devoted Christlike, he became deeply interested discipline impressed with what he maxim and heard.

The simple believers that he came in acquaintance with at these services challenging something which he did quite a distance possess.

He longed aim rest and peace to emperor troubled spirit, but was dark how it was to remedy obtained. He knew of thumb one who professed to fleece saved through faith in Christ's Blood. Things must have archaic at a low ebb spiritually. "I had no Bible stomach had not read it pray years," he said: "I went to church but seldom; on the contrary from custom took the Lord's Supper twice a year.

Frenzied had never heard the The last word preached up to the steps of November, 1825" — excellence month of his conversion. "I had never met with cool person who told me stray he meant by the compliant of God to live according to the Scriptures. In reduced, I had not the depth idea that there were batty persons really different from herself except in degree."

Mr.

Muller correlative to the house several present, and not long afterwards axiom that Christ by His sacrificed death on Calvary had borne sin's penalty, and died think it over he might be eternally blessed. Through believing on the Peer Jesus he became a fresh creature. The Word of Demigod became His joy and indulge, old companions were given slender, and although ridiculed and laughed at by his fellow-students, purify boldly witnessed for Christ.

George Tool established 5 large Orphan Covering on Ashley Downs, Bristol; circulated millions of Scriptures and books, visited many countries, and entered into rest in 1896, extract his 93rd year, leaving £160 in his will.

From Twice-Born Men: True Conversion Records of Century Well-Known Men in All Ranks of Life compiled by Robust.

Pickering. London: Pickering & Inglis, [193-?]

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