| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 10 |
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A letter from a stranger attracted Dr. Miller’s special attention because it gave him the hint for which he was always looking – the hint that a letter from him would be helpful. So he wrote:
“Your stationary shows that you are in sorrow. I may not intermeddle with your grief, but I may say at least that my heart goes out in sincere sympathy to you; whatever the grief may be which has touched your life. No doubt you have learned that sorrow is a great revealer. We never should see the stars in the sky, if the sun kept shining always; and the Bible is like a sky full of stars – stars of comfort, of divine revealing, of spiritual help, of which we never should know experimentally did not the sun go down for us and the darkness come on. Very much of the Bible remains like a sealed book to God’s children until they are called to pass into the shadows of grief. That is what our Master meant in the Beatitude for sorrow, ‘Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.’ Comfort is one of God’s highest and best blessings. But we never can have comfort till we mourn.”
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