...my father's desire was, that I should become a clergyman: not, indeed, that thus I might serve God, but that I might have a comfortable living - George Müller

Dec. 31. My health is much better than for years. My mental powers also are as good as they have been at any time during the last three years. I ascribe this to God’s blessing, through the instrumentality of early rising, and plunging my head into cold water when I rise.

Indeed step by step has the Lord prospered me in my feeble endeavours, mixed with sin as every one of them has been, and made it manifest, that, this time also, He had sent me to Germany.

No situation, no business will be given to me by God, in which I have not time enough to care about my soul (Matthew vi. 33).