Devotional Hours with the Bible: From the Creation to the Crossing of the Red Sea
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Omes are the divinely or...)
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Omes are the divinely ordained fountains Of H life. It is not by accident that men live in families rather than solitarily. The human race began in a family, and Eden was a home. The divine blessing has ever rested upon nations and communities just in the measure in which they have adhered to those original institutions and have kept marriage and the home pure and holy; and blight and curse have come just in the measure in which they have departed from these divine models, dis honoring marriage and tearing down the sacred walls of home.
Back of the home lies marriage. The wedding day throws its shadow far down the future; it may be, ought to be, a shadow of healing and benediction.
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WE are set in...)
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WE are set in this world to be happy. We should not falter in our great task of happiness, nor move ever among our fellows with shadows on our face when we ought to have sunlight.
We have a mission to others - to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves. We cannot teach what we do not know. We cannot give what we do not have.
In this little book a lesson is set for you, my reader. It may seem a hard lesson to learn; nevertheless, it is one you want to learn, and one you can learn, if you will surrender your life wholly to the great Teacher.
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The Sermons and Articles of J.R. Miller: A Collection of Over 750 Sermons and Articles
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James Russell Miller (1840 - 1912) was a highly successful minister in the American Presbyterian church. He helped grow the membership of churches in the Philadelphia area to include more than a 1,000 people. He also held a PhD in divinity and published over 50 books.
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By The Still Waters: A Meditation On The Twenty-third Psalm
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A sacred burden is the life ye bear. Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly; Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. Hat one thinks about life, what conception he has of that strange thing called exist ence - particularly What he thinks of his own indi vidual life - is a most Vital matter. Life is noble or ignoble, glorious or groveling, just as a right or wrong, a high or a low, conception is cherished in the heart. No man builds higher or better than his plans. N 0 artist surpasses in marble or on canvas the beauty imaged in his soul, and no one's life can rise in grandeur above the thoughts of life which live in his heart. No conception is true or worthy which does not.
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Intimate Letters on Personal Problems (Classic Reprint)
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The longing is now to be gratified. Among Dr. Miller's papers were more than a score of letter-books in which copies were made of messages to his personal correspondents, known and unknown. These letters have been care fully read, and a selection, made of a varied series, is printed in this volume.
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Glimpses Through Life's Windows: Selections From The Writings (1893)
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There are certain things essential in all building. Every structure requires a good foundation. 'without this it never can rise into real strength and grandeur. The most beautiful building reared on sand is insecure and must fall. There is only one foundation for Christian character. We must build on the rock; that is, we must have, as the basis of our Character, great, eternal principles.
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Family Prayers For Thirteen Weeks
James Russell Miller
Nelson, 1895
Religion; Prayerbooks; General; Devotional exercises; Families; Family; Prayers; Religion / Prayerbooks / General
James Russell Miller was an American clergyman, editor, and author. He was widely regarded as the most popular religious writer of his day.
Background
James Russell Miller was born on 20 March 1840, at Harshaville, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest of the seven children of James Alexander and Eleanor (Creswell) Miller who survived infancy. His father was a country miller and devout elder in the Associate Reformed Church. His mother's grandfather, Thomas McCarrell, a Scotch resident of Ireland, visited America in 1777 on his uncle's ship and remained to serve in the American army during the Revolution, and later to live in Washington County, Pennsylvania, as an elder in the "Seceder" Church. Among McCarrell's descendants were seven clergymen. James Russell Miller attributed to his boyhood home the religious impulses which signally characterized his life. A significant influence was his parents' lifelong habit of visiting the homes of neighbors far and near on every occasion of trouble and sorrow.
Education
Miller's education was received at district schools in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and near Calcutta, Ohio, to which state the family removed when he was about fourteen years old; at Beaver Academy; at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1862; and at Allegheny Theological Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church, where he completed the course in 1867.
Career
Early revealing a deep religious nature, in 1857 Miller united with the Associate Reformed Church, which in 1858 joined with other groups in forming the United Presbyterian Church. During his academy course, he taught a term of school at Industry, Pennsylvania, and one at Calcutta, Ohio. His seminary course was interrupted, 1863-65, by work among the soldiers for the United States Christian Commission, eventually as a general field agent with scores of workers under his direction. Ordained a minister in 1867, he was in charge of the First United Presbyterian Church, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1867-69, and of the following Presbyterian churches: Bethany, Philadelphia, 1869-78; Broadway, Rock Island, Ill. , 1878-80; Hollond, Philadelphia, 1881-83 and 1886-97; and St. Paul's, Philadelphia, which he organized, 1898-1912. His work was marked by unusual success with young people, by building weak churches into strong organizations, by remarkably effective and numerous pastoral calls, most of which were made at night, and by extensive personal correspondence, which required the writing of thousands of letters during his lifetime. In 1880, he began editorial work for the Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia.
Achievements
As the board's editorial superintendent from 1887 until his death, Miller edited hundreds of books and all the periodicals, to many of which he contributed regularly; he increased the number of Sunday-school publications from five to eighteen, and founded and edited the magazine Forward, which at his death had a weekly circulation of nearly half a million copies. His Week-Day Religion, published in 1880, was the first of more than sixty devotional books from his pen. One of the best known of these was his eight-volume Devotional Hours with the Bible (1909 - 13), which attained a sale of more than two million copies during his lifetime and was translated into many languages. In all his activities he was known for his manifold and tireless labors, his sound judgment, simplicity, sympathy, and boundless faith.
Quotations:
“Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others.
But where there is selfishness it mars joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of life in any home. It is like an ugly bush in the midst of a garden of flowers. It was selfishness that destroyed the first home and blighted all the loveliness of Paradise; and it has been blighting lovely things in earth's home ever since. We need to guard against this spirit. ”
“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. ”
“Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. ”
“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny, --she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her. ”
“Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory. ”
“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good. ”
“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves. ”
“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough great books to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best. ”
“We have a mission to others to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves. ”
Connections
On June 22, 1870, Miller married Louise E. King of Argyle, New York.
