George Müller lived a wicked life as a young man in Germany before he was converted at about age 20. Later, as a preacher in England, he made a decision: he would never take a salary or ask anyone directly for money. He would tell his needs to God alone. In 1834 there was room for only about 3,600 orphans in all of England. Müller started taking them in at Bristol, and over his lifetime he built five large orphan houses and cared for 10,024 children. He never took out a loan or went into debt, and neither he nor the orphans ever went hungry. When he died in 1898, his own possessions were worth only a few hundred dollars.
