| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
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Professor W. Brenton Greene, D.D., of Princeton Seminary, chairman of the Board’s Editorial Committee, said:
“Dr. Miller was not a man to be estimated as I would estimate myself or other men. He was in a class by himself. I used to feel thus whenever I contemplated the work that he did. I do not refer to his combination of the pastorate of a great church with his editorial functions or his putting himself, in addition to all this, at the unlimited disposal of anyone who needed him; but I refer simply to his editorial functions. The Sabbath school literature of our Church, both in its extent and in its quality, literary and spiritual alike, is a monument of industry and ability that would be incredible if we had not ourselves witnessed them in operation so long as to have become accustomed to them. Yet he never seemed hurried; he was never nervous; he was never back in his work. At first I could only look on in wonder; I now look back in reverence.
“Then there was his progressiveness. Other men, as they grow older, even the best of them, drop from the head of the column. Dr. Miller never did. He died at the head of it. He was never fuller of plans for the improvement of our Sabbath school literature than during the last years of his earthly life.
“Perhaps, however, it is as a religious editor and writer that we think of him as greatest. He popularized religion in his books. Who else in our day have done it? Who of them, at all events, have done it as he did it? If we consider both the number and the sale of his books, I think that we must pronounce him the greatest religious writer of our day.”
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