During the last year of his life Dr. Miller wrote what was – for him – an unusually personal message to one who sought to know his idea of consecration. He wrote:
“I have regarded myself as reaching the most real things of Christian life and privilege when I have let Christ possess me wholly, living in me and through me. I have felt that my work is simply to interpret Christ to others, to let Christ’s love pour out through my love, to let Christ’s cheer for others voice itself through my words, and to live out as far as I can the unselfishness of Christ in self forgetful service of others. Increasingly, during recent years, God has trusted me with the helping of hundreds and thousands of people. He has sent them to me that I may do for them what the Master Himself would do for them if He were here in the flesh. He is here in the flesh to me, and in a small degree, at least, I am to let Him live in me and live through me. Persons come to me for advice and for guidance and for comfort and for help in almost ever experience, and for rescue, ofttimes when it seems almost to be impossible. Increasingly, also, I have found that God is ready to use me for the helping of those who come to me, sometimes in almost startling ways. The real answering of prayers in a great many cases has been something that has awed me.”
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