| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 12 |
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But the larger portion of each letter was given to a discussion of the problems and progress of the Presbyterian Church in particular and religion in general in the places visited. At Pasadena he told of preaching for Dr. Fife at the Presbyterian Church. From Oakland, California, he wrote of a service in Dr. Coyle’s church, and a Sunday afternoon visit to Mills College, where several hundred young women gathered to listen to him. From San Francisco he described Chinatown briefly, as if in a hurry to pass on to what he evidently considered a far more important subject – the praise of consecrated men and women who were giving their lives to take the gospel to the transplanted heathen.
Again from Tacoma he wrote of holding a church service. At Salt Lake City he preached one Sunday, and on Monday he excused himself when the party went to visit a silver mine, that he might visit the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, speak to the pupils, and meet the teachers. At Kansas City he preached in the Second Church and after service was waited on by six students from Park College who had walked the nine miles from Parkville to emphasize the letters of urgent invitation to visit the college which he had been receiving for two weeks. At seven o’clock Monday morning two of the faculty and four of the students greeted him and Mr. Wanamaker at the Kansas City station and escorted them to the college town, where they were met at the train by the entire faculty and almost the entire student body. An hour was spent at the chapel, where both visitors talked.
At the close of each service held along the way there was an informal reception. Many people wanted to say a word to Dr. Miller about his books, and tell him how his words had helped them. As always, he was astonished at the evidence of feeling. He acted as if he thought the words were meant for some one else.
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