| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 10 |
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A few samples of these letters serve not only to illustrate the story of the writer’s helpful ministry of the pen, but they reveal many of the secrets of his marvelous life. One day a letter came to his desk from a Sunday school girl who asked for counsel as to her life work. After urging patience before beginning the larger work she planned, he wrote:
“I am glad to know that you have given yourself to Christ fully and wholly, that you desire not only to live for Him, but to live to be a blessing to others in His name… Your best course is to put yourself in the hands of Christ, as I am sure you want to do, not only regarding the consecration of the work, but regarding the detail of the work. Do not be in haste. Do not feel that you must enter at once upon this larger work. The first thing for a worker is careful and substantial preparation. Meanwhile you will not be idle, but you will be doing Christ’s work and taking a part in Christian work from the very beginning. You will practice, for example, in Sunday school work and in every line of work in which girls can engage with helpfulness to others. Let Christ choose the way and choose the line of work for you. I have had experience with a good many young people who have felt just as you feel now, having the beautiful spirit of consecration and great earnestness, and I assure you that the course I recommend will be the wise one for you – not to be in a hurry, but to do the work of this day faithfully as a preparation for the work of the morrow.”
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