| The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller |
Chapter 9 |
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Famous people asked to have their part in the chorus of appreciation. From Hawarden Castle came an autograph letter:
“Pray accept my thanks for your work on ‘The Building of Character.’ It seems to me a work of great value on a subject requiring a skillful hand.
“Your very faithful servant,
“W.E.Gladstone.”
The Earl of Meath wrote from England:
“I have for some considerable time wished to write to you and express the pleasure which I feel in reading your books. I think I may truly say that they are the only sermons which have ever attracted me. Yours possess a life and practical character which appeal to me, and I seldom read them without feeling that I rise strengthened for life’s contests. They appear to me so different from the ordinary dry as dust sermons, which treat of abstruse questions of theology or contested points of the Bible narrative, which are of little practical use to the man of the world who is in need of guidance as to the way in which he should pick his steps amidst the dangers and pitfalls to be daily met with in the workaday world. Permit, therefore, an unknown friend to tender sincere thanks for guidance and encouragement.”
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