| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 9 |
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Another letter told of an evening gathering of men and women in a home for the aged to listen to the reading aloud of selected books. One of the listeners said:
“Nothing which has passed through our hands has been as acceptable as ‘Finding the Way.’”
From Melbourne, Australia, came a letter from a Christian Endeavourer who told of the purpose of his society to spend “An Evening with Dr. Miller.”
The English Consul at Kieff, Russia, told of a service held in the schoolhouse every Sunday afternoon for several years, at which a chapter from one of Dr. Miller’s books was read. No sermon was allowed by the authorities, but the printed words of the American pastor met their needs.
From a stranger in London, England, came these encouraging tidings:
“A friend, an architect in Bombay, India, informs me that at Christmas he purchased three hundred copies of your ‘Come Ye Apart’ and distributed them among his friends and native clients. One of them went to a Mohammedan prince, for whom he had recently constructed a palace and in whose house he had great freedom. He afterwards said that the volume was being read with much interest both by the prince and his wife. Another copy was sent to a Mohammedan merchant, and on calling at his office the giver found the book lying on the table, it having been brought from the residence. I though you would like to know of these silent influences at work.”
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