| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 3 |
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With what joy he turned from a record like that to a letter to the secretary of the Christian Commission, in which he said:
“Again we have to thank God for another month of prosperity and success. Everywhere his Spirit has been preached and his glory advanced in the salvation of souls. Such a great outpouring of the Spirit amid the rude and ghastly scenes of war, imparts a new and holy light to the cause for which we are struggling.”
In this letter workers were mentioned by name, and much is said of their success as winners of souls. Of himself, as the leader of the work, he said nothing, although in the last paragraph he revealed his agency in inspiring the workers in the only true way:
“I have always believed that the secret of the greatest success of preaching the gospel in the army is in the fact that the gospel only is preached. We have no time or opportunity for pulpit embellishments. Men are taught their true condition, and told of the only Saviour. The personal conversation, the earnest prayer meeting, the brief and simple sermon, and the Bible lesson are the means which God sees fit to bless.”
Thus in the closing month of the war Mr. Miller’s time and thought were largely taken up with the problems to which he was to devote his life – the problems of the hearts of men.
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