George Müller was born September 27, 1805 and lived almost the entire nineteenth century, dying March 10, 1898, at the age of 92. He saw the great awakening of 1859 [an outgrowth of the 1857 awakening that began in New York City, which, he said, “led to the conversion of hundreds of thousands.”

It began as a small prayer meeting for businessmen in lower Manhattan. Within six months, 10,000 people gathered every day over the noon hour for prayer...And that was only the beginning. It spread throughout the US and then jumped the pond to Ireland and spread though Europe and Africa.