When at last the unwearied worker had entered on his larger service in the world beyond, several of those who had been most intimately associated with him in his editorial work wrote of him and his achievement.
One of these was Judge Robert N. Willson, since 1889 President of the Board of Publication:
“Dr. Miller’s life touched mine in more ways than one, and my association with him ran through many years. His home was for a long time directly opposite my own, and his children and mine grew up together as close neighbours and friends. The ties thus formed of personal relationship were never forgotten in the close official connection which existed between Dr. Miller and myself for many years.
“Indeed it may be said that the characteristics he displayed as a man were largely responsible for the success which came to him in his capacity as editor and writer. Sincerity, simplicity, generosity, frankness and tact were conspicuous factors in his equipment for work. He possessed a rare faculty of fairness and poise of judgment and expression in regard to matter as to which opinions differed. His industry was indefatigable, and his devotion to the work of our Board which was entrusted to him was most marked. He was loyal to our Church, to its doctrines and polity, and he endeavoured with sincerity and integrity to discharge his duties as editor in that spirit of loyalty.
“He had a rare faculty for collecting and retaining for ready use incidents, illustrations and quotations of a simple, practical character, which he used with great effect in his brief articles, as well as in the books that came from his mind and heart.
“The simplicity of his style, and the sympathy, natural and overflowing, that was expressed by his words, made his utterances attractive and helpful to young and old. No religious writer, of whom I have knowledge, has ever touched the sorrowing heart with a softer and more comforting balm than did Dr. Miller.
“He was a great editor and a manly man. It would have been a great mistake if anyone had inferred from his mild and gentle conduct that he was without force of character or positiveness of opinion. These strong qualities he possessed, but in sure control, and under the cover of a warm heart and a kindly nature.
“Our Church, in my opinion, will never obtain a wiser, abler, or more successful editor of its publications.”
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