| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 9 |
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A young Negro minister in the South evidently spoke from his heart when he said:
“While at the seminary I got a plenty of doctrine, but little of practical things, little words suited to cheer the weary and heavy hearted, but in your books I find many things that are good for the sufferings of my race. And I thank God for your life.”
The day before the author’s death a maid servant in England wrote:
“I want to try in writing to thank you for the great help I have received from reading books written by you, namely: ‘Silent Times Series.’ I have had the great privilege of being able to read and re-read, for years now, some of these. I find in counting up that I have read seventeen of the most beautiful and helpful books. Again and again I have thanked God for placing them within my reach. Again and again I have asked Him to reward you, though at the same time I know you have had already your reward. I cannot express in words my heartfelt thanks for the help I have received from them, and the joy it has given me to be able to lend to others the three volumes I possess as my own. I would like to have every one you have written as my very own. I hope yet to be able to read those I have not read. I am a domestic servant and, you will understand, not well enough off to purchase them all for my own. But my mistress is as fond of them as I am, and it is through her kindness that I won three of them. For some time I have felt I would like to thank you, and I didn’t know if your were in heaven above or in heaven below, for I know after being able to write such books, you must have know the blessed experience of heaven on earth. So I inquired of the publishers and they sent me your address. Dear Sir, please accept again my sincere gratitude for those books. I pray that millions of them may be bought, and I know they cannot fail to be a blessing to all who read them. I say all, because I believe no one who is saved can read them without being blessed. Some day, when I meet the blessed Master, I will thank Him face to face, and you, too.”
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