| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 7 |
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During these last years of Dr. Miller’s service, when he seemed busier than ever in manifold ways, a friend asked him to tell the secret of his ability to get so much done. His answer was, “I never worry, and I try never to lose a minute.” A brother editor, commenting on these words, said:
“Here was a divinely guided economist in the art of life. There was no burning of the brakes, no overstraining of the engine, no inordinate repair needed after the daily journey, but a mechanism closely geared to its word with as little lost motion as possible, and a spirit within the machine that was so much in fellowship with the Spirit of God that his life was not subjected to the terrific and sinful strain of anxious concern over the outcome of any day. Now he did not achieve this life course by daily struggle, but rather by daily yielding to the daily guidance and control of his heavenly Father.”
A briefer statement of the reason for Dr. Miller’s efficiency was given by Dr. M.C. Hazard, long editor of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, when he said:
“He came as near as man may to embodying what is said about love in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. ‘Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up… seeketh not its own… taketh not account of evil; … believeth all things… endureth all things. Love never faileth.’”
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