| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 11 |
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Many of these cases were brought to his attention by visitors who came to the office. They came singly and together, for morning to night, all through the year. They were never denied admission, but were received by the secretary who admitted them at once to Dr. Miller’s room, – unless there was already a visitor there. The secretary’s room frequently looked like the anteroom of a famous specialist. It was a noticeable fact that few of the waiting men and women spoke to one another. Most of them were entire strangers. They came from all parts of the city, from other cities and states, and even from abroad. Frequently one came a long distance on purpose to confer about some life problem that was troubling him.
“What tales those walls could tell,” one of Dr. Miller’s friends once said, “tales of tears, of blighted lives, of discouraged parents, of ambitious youths, of anxious business men, of downhearted Christian workers, of penitent sinners! I wish I dared to tell of a few of the incidents that I know, illustrating what has resulted from these short conferences. Aspiring young people are assisted to an education; the needy are tided over hard places; the transgressor is helped back to manhood and truth; homes are healed of dissensions that seemed fatal.”
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