| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 14 |
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The editor of The Continent called him “A Twentieth Century Saint,” and said:
“No man identified with the Presbyterian Church in America has ever been more profoundly or more widely loved than Dr. James Russell Miller, the Editorial Superintendent of the denominational Board of Publication – just now ‘gone on before.’ And well did he deserve love. In him the gentleness of manhood and the manhood of gentleness combined to make the simple life of an unmistakable modern saint – a saint of the Christ sort, attaining holiness not in ascetic withdrawal from the world nor in pretentious piety exhibited for admiration of the world, but in day by day service humbly rendered for the weal of just as much of the world as he could bring within his patient and laborious reach.
“It was in the beautiful church home of the latter congregation that Dr. Miller’s friends paid to him marvelous memorial tribute of love. The services were the simplest sort because Dr. Miller had so commanded that they must be. Just before his death he had even forbidden that flowers should be heaped upon his coffin. But the richer and lovelier flowers of a tender reverence from hosts of friends acknowledging his helpfulness bloomed around his bier, and the whole atmosphere of the church, which owed its very existence to his fidelity, was electric with spoken and unspoken tributes to the glorious success of a life that sought no other wealth than the wealth of a great opportunity to serve.”
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