| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 9 |
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From a deaconess in Toronto, Canada, came this encouraging note:
“Your books have been my favourites for years, and I have been echoing their helpful messages to all my patients in the seven hospitals of the city where my work calls me day by day; and also in our young people’s meetings. I have come in from my work with my heart almost crushed with the sorrows and miseries of this wicked world, but would pick up one of your books, and it would give me just the message I needed for the hour… A good friend was kind enough to say to me the other evening, ‘I know now the secret of your unselfish life; it is because you have read so many of Dr. Miller’s books.’ I want to say to you that they have helped me to get better acquainted with Christ.
It was one of Dr. Miller’s chief joys that his books were acceptable to people of all denominations and all phases of belief. He prized highly a letter written in 1887 by Bishop William Bacon Stevens, of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. After receiving “Practical Religion,” the Bishop wrote:
“Pardon me for thus writing to a stranger; and yet I feel that where our minds and hearts so run together, and find their common centre in the same precious Saviour, we are not strangers, but brethren in Christ, journeying, though it may be by different paths, yet each one leading to the same Gate of Pearl, and to the one Father’s house, of whom ‘the whole family in heaven and earth is named.’”
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