[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0817":3},"AUGUST 17\r\nI believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me (Acts 27:25).\r\nI went to America some years ago with the captain of a steamer, who  was a very devoted Christian. When off the coast of Newfoundland he\r\nsaid to me, \"The last time I crossed here, five weeks ago,\r\nsomething happened which revolutionized the whole of my Christian life. We had George Mueller of Bristol on board. I had been on the\r\nbridge twenty-four hours and never left it. George Mueller came to me, and said, \"Captain, I have come to tell you that I must be in\r\nQuebec Saturday afternoon.\" \"It Is impossible,\" I said. \"Very well,    if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way. I have    never broken an engagement for fifty-seven years. Let us go down into the chart-room and pray.\"\r\nI looked at that man of God, and thought to myself, what lunatic\r\nasylum can that man have come from? I never heard of such a thing\r\nas this. \"Mr. Mueller,\" I said, \"do you know how dense this fog\r\nis?\" \"No,\" he replied, \"my eye is not on the density of the fog,\r\nbut on the living God, who controls every circumstance of my life.\r\n\"\r\nHe knelt down and prayed one of the most simple prayers, and when he had finished I was going to pray: but he put his hand on my\r\n\r\nshoulder, and told me not to pray. \"First you do not believe He\r\nwill answer, and second I BELIEVE HE HAS, and there is no need whatever for you to pray about it\"\r\nI looked at him, and he said, \"Captain, I have known my Lord for\r\nfifty-seven years, and there has never been a single day that I\r\nhave failed to get audience with the King. Get up, Captain and open the door, and you will find the fog gone.\" I got up, and the fog\r\nwas indeed gone. On Saturday afternoon George Mueller was in Quebec for his engagement --Selected.\r\nIf our love were but more simple,\r\nWe should take Him at His word;\r\nAnd our lives would be all sunshine, In the sweetness of our Lord.",1783499793307]