| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 7 |
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In a letter to a contributor he stated even more fully his ideals.
“No other young people’s paper in the land with the single exception of The Youth’s Companion, reaches so many young persons, or exerts such a wide influence. It is thoroughly wholesome. It is always optimistic – not a disheartening sentence is ever admitted to its columns. Its aim is never mere entertainment – every article, every story, every briefest paragraph, to be thought worthy of publication, must have some motive of helpfulness or inspiration. The paper thus starts every week a great wave of pure, wholesome and invigorating influence which goes round the world, and makes thousands of people braver, stronger and happier, and puts into their minds higher thoughts of life’s meaning, and loftier and more beautiful ideals.”
Readers of Forward soon learned to look on the editor as their personal friend to whom they could write freely about anything that troubled them. Once he wrote editorially of their letters:
“The editor refers to this matter to say that nothing in all the range of his work gives him more pleasure than this personal correspondence. There is no more sacred privilege given to anyone in this world than that of helping another in some actual experience of life. The Master puts no higher honour on any of his servants than when He sends younger souls to them to be guided through some perplexing way, sorrowing ones to be comforted in their hours of grief, or tempted ones to be strengthened to endure in sin’s fierce struggle. No other work which we can do for men or women is more really the very work of Christ himself than is this ministry in life’s deep experiences.”
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