| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 10 |
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One whom Dr. Miller had encouraged in his struggle to secure an education against odds wrote, years after his graduation:
“Just a line to express my deep gratitude for all that you have been to me during the years that have elapsed since we first met. In going over my effects I found letters of encouragement from you at the completion of my college and seminary career, and letters of cheer to greet a homesick boy arriving at Salt Lake City. In fact there were no experiences of joy or sorrow that met me that you did not share with me. I have treasured these letters all these years.
“What little good I have done in the Master’s cause is largely due to the stimulus of your influence.”
On learning of the sudden death of a missionary, Dr. Miller wrote at once to the parents, although he had never met them. Not long after he received grateful acknowledgement from the father:
“I write, thanking you for your most cordial, timely and useful letter of condolence. It comforted both of us. Your allusions and illustrations were, as customary with you, most apt and telling. We have, in fact, felt more exultation and deep joy than grief, in hearing of our son’s work, and its triumphant close – on earth. Your letter, so prompt, apt and extended, and from a source more appealing to us than you could know, went far to confirm and heighten in us the feelings named. That you could find time to write it, and that you took the time and thought, meant much to us, and lent emphasis to your kind and wise words. You doubtless do not need this response as an encouragement to like future ministries to others, but the circumstances forbid our silence: you ought to be told, sometimes, what flavour God lends to your words, and thus what power they carry for good.”
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