| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 14 |
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Rev. C. R. Blackall, D.D., for many years editor of the Sunday school publications of the Baptist Church – a man ten years Dr. Miller’s senior, and in active service at the time – wrote his impressions for The Superintendent:
“There passed into rest on the second day of July last one of the most helpful and loving men I have ever known. Estimates of character and worth and work, to be fair, must be based very largely upon the hidden purposes of life, which unconsciously reveal themselves like bands upon a coat sleeve to any careful observer, and really show deep seated principles of action.
“Dr. Miller was not a theologian, and therefore was not controversial in thought or action; nor was he aggressive in dealing with practical questions of the day as related to Sunday school methods of work. I had the pleasure and the honour of a close and unbroken friendship with him through a long series of years. We often discussed questions of deepest and mutual interest. I invariably found him both frank and responsive. I sometimes though him too timid; I know better now, and that he shrank from anything that could hurt, even with the tenderness of a noble and pure woman.
“As editor and writer he will always be best known, the world over, for his true and unvarying helpfulness. He evidently believed that a true life is worth more to the world than a knotty disputation; that Sunday school teachers gain better spiritual results by best use of the great truths that lie upon the surface, and the honest application of these to the daily life; and this thought he faithfully and undeviatingly followed in his voluminous editorial articles and books.
“I loved him much. I shall surely meet him again, after the limitations of the flesh are forever overcome.”
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