J.R. Miller
(1840 - 1912)
J. R. Miller AUDIO gems
J.R. Miller BOOKS
CHOICE EXCERPTS
Think on These Things
(audio)
Go Forward!
(audio)
The Lord is My Shepherd
The Shepherd Psalm
The Splendor of Kindness
The Lesson of Service
A Living Christ!
At the Feet of Jesus
That Will Do!
The Refuge in Sorrow
The Making of a Man
A Word about TEMPER
The Sacredness of Opportunity
Taking Cheerful Views
Learning How to
be Thoughtful
Judging Others
AMUSEMENTS
The Face of the Master
The Transfigured Life!
Getting Along with People
The Necessity of Daily Bible Reading
The Necessity of Daily Prayer
Thunder—or
Angel's Voice?
Life as a Ladder
Thread for a Web Begun
How to Live a
Beautiful Christian Life
Choosing to Do HARD Things
My Will—or God's Will?
Our Daily Bread
In All Your Ways!
Learning to Be Content
Do Nothing Rashly
The Secret of Gladness
While We May
Looking One's Soul in the Face
Talking of One's Ailments
Getting Help From Criticism
Christian Conversation
Our
Undiscovered Faults
The Habit of Encouraging Others
The Home of
the Soul
The Ministry of Kindness
The Ministry of Encouragement
The Word that was NOT Said
The SEEDS We Are Scattering
Thoughtfulness and Tact
PRAYER in the Christian life
According to His Will
Shut Your Door
Motes in Other People's Eyes
Ministries that Bless
Finding God's Comfort
Iron Shoes
for Rough Roads
Forward, and Not Back
Loyalty to Christ
The Hallowing of Our Burden
AFTERWARD
Nevertheless, Afterward
The Cost of Being a
Blessing
Sorrow in
Christian Homes
The Beatitude for Sorrow
The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow
Losing SELF in
Christ
The
Ministry of Comfort
Copying but a
Fragment
The
Blessing of Weakness
The Sweet Fragrance of Prayer
The SILENT Christ
Friendship
Friendships
Being Christians on Weekdays
Summer Gathering for Winter's Need
The manliness of Jesus
Glimpses at Life's Windows
Don't Worry!
Reasons for Not Worrying
Transformed by
Beholding
The Ripening of Character
A Gentle
Heart
Serving One Another in Love
Unconscious Helpfulness
Turning Northward
Pictures in the Heart
Cheerful Counsel for Christians
Christian Essentials
Paul's Advice to Timothy
Paul's Last Words
Blessings of Bereavement
The
Christian Husband
The
Christian Wife
Christian Motherhood
The
Engagement Ring
The Marriage Altar—and After
Secrets of Happy
Home Life
The Home Conversation
Our New Edens
(the Christian home)
Counsel
and Help
Mutual
Forbearance
On Loving Others
The Cure
for Care
The
Duty of Encouragement
Beautiful
Old Age
(excerpt on old age)
The Problem of Christian Old Age
Christ and I are
Friends
More
than Conquerors
The
Work of the Plough
Being a Comfort to Others
Judging
Others
For a Busy Day
Wayside Ministries
The
Christian in the World
Guarded
from Stumbling
The Quest for the Best!
Secrets
of Contentment
Can We Learn to be Contented?
Looking at the Right Side
The Grace of Thoughtfulness
The Joy of the Lord
Dangers of Discouragement
One Day at a Time
Steps on the Stairs
Father, Bless Me!
Giving What We Have
Talking about one's self
A Parable of Christian Growth
The Wider Life
Personal Beauty
Books and Reading
The Ethics of Home-decoration
The choice of FRIENDS
The Blessing of Quietness
Seeds of Light
Manly Men
Losses
The Service of Consecration
Learning Our Lessons
The Best Family Bible
Being a
Christian Between the Sundays
Hands: a Study
Living Victoriously
Living up to our Prayers
Broken Lives
Tired Feet
The Blessing of Work
Into the Desert
Helpful People
The Secret of
Personal Helpfulness
Coming to the End
Looking Unto the Hills
Afterward You Will Understand
The Practice of Immortality
Strength and Beauty
Christian Manliness
Misunderstood
Service Declined
What God Thinks of Us
Shallow Lives
Crowding Out the Best
Things to Leave Undone
Fruit in Its Season
True Religion
The Beauty of the Imperfect
How to Meet Temptation
At the Full Price
The Blessing of Hardness
The Ministry of Hindrances
In Time of Defeat
The Duty of Fault-Finding
The Duty of Laughter
Minding the 'Rests'
The Cure for Weariness
Doing Impossible Things
A New Heart Makes
a New World!
Judge as We Judge
Every Day an Easter
Christmas Making
The Blossoming of our Thorns
Obedience that Pleases Christ
The Outer and Inner Life
The Beautifying of Imperfect
Living
Speak it Out
The Basis
of Helpfulness
Helping by Not Hindering
The Duty of Pleasing Others
The Privilege of Suffering Wrongfully
The Duty
Waiting Without
The
Thanksgiving Habit
Because
You Are Strong
Refuge from the Hurt of Tongues
The Glasses
You Wear
Our
Deposit with Christ
Christ's Deposit with Us
The Making
of Character
Unfinished Life-building
A Life of
Character
The Influence of Companionship
Making
Life a Song
The
Beauty of the Lord
Getting Christ's Touch
The
Strength of Quietness
The
Blessing of Patience
As it is
in Heaven
The Shadows
We Cast
On the Bearing of Our Burden
Other People
Loving
Your Neighbor
The
Cost of Being a Friend
The Sin of Being a Discourager
Summer Gathering for Winter's Needs
Christs Reserve in Teaching
Forgetting Sorrow
Finding Comfort
in Sorrow
In
Time of Loneliness
In
the Everlasting Arms
Under God's
Wings
I Am the Only One Left!
At the Proper
Time We Will Reap
Jesus and I are Friends!
Life's
Open Doors
Numbering our Days
Mastering the Blues
Making or Marring Beauty
The Misuse of the Gift of Speech
The Danger of Talking Too Much
Books Worth While
A Talk about Disposition
The Advantage of Keeping One's Temper
The Grace of Being Obliging
The Old and the New
What to Do with Our Money
What to Do with Our Hands
Some Indirect Ways of Lying
The Practical Value of a Promise
The
Home-life
Your Mother
Hannah as a Mother
A
New Year
The Sacredness of the Redeemed Life
Learning to Be Thoughtful
On the Control of Temper
The Use of Time
How Prayer Helps us
Finishing our Work
Finishing Our Work
A High Sense of Honor
What Loving My
Neighbor Means
The Fiery Furnace
The
Law of Love
Hearing
and Doing
The
Penitent Woman
A Troubled Soul
Heavenly Worship
Later You Will Understand!
How God Prepares His Jewels!
Differing Gifts
A Letter and the Answer
A Field Without Springs
Woman's Ministry
Water the Roots!
Dead at the Top!
The Words of Christ!
A Plant That Needs Culture!
(On friendship, superb!)
Post-mortem Love
To Young Disciples
Men
Who Had Been with Jesus
The Nether
Springs
The Basis of Friendship
My Responsibility
God's Workmanship
He Knows His Own!
The Alabaster Box
The Sunday School Teacher's Grave
By
My Spirit
What Is a Christian Life?
The Power of
Prayer
Unreality
in Religion
Lessons for Christian Workers
Do Not
Quench the Spirit
The Ladder of Life!
Broken Lives
Wise
and Unwise Helpfulness
IN, but
Not OF the World
We are All
Builders
On Keeping Quiet
The Touch of
Christ!
Things That
Endure
The By-paths
of the Bible
The Cost
of Reaching the Best
On Doing Our
Best
When
Kindness is Unkind
The
Interweaving of the Days
The Young
Christian!
Doing, and
Not Doubting
No True Work
Is Vain
Be a Blessing
Just for Today
Making a Living and Making a Life
Our Lives, Words of God
The Lesson
of Contentment
Two Ways
The
Duty of Being Always Strong
Strength
for a New Year
More than Food
Learning
Contentment
The Sin of
Drifting
My
Fellow-Laborers
The
Value and Responsibility of One Life
The
Folly of Drifting into Marriage
How
Not to Show Sympathy
Choosing Our
Friends
How to
Read the Bible
The
Entanglements of Love
Learning the Lessons of Love at Home
Is
Worrying a Christian Duty?
On the
Footpath to Success
Causes of
Failure
Sticking to One's
Calling
Putting Away Childish Things
Remember the Way
Preparation
for Death
The Inner Life
David's Joy over Forgiveness
What is
Consecration?
The Success of
Those Who Fail
Life's
Waste in Lost Opportunities
The Glory of the Common Life
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Kindness That Comes Too Late
Behold, the Man!
Why did Peter Fail?
The Yoke and the School
Lessons Learned Under an Old Tree
What Makes One a Christian?
Compensation in Life
The
Hidden
Life
Wholesome or Unwholesome Living
The
Effacement of SELF
The
Habit of Happiness
Comfort
in
Christ's Knowledge of Us
Our
Unanswered Prayers
The
Beatitude for the
Unsuccessful
The Hidden
Life
People who Fail
This Too, Shall Pass Away
The Bible
in Life
Being
Christians on Weekdays
People Who Disappoint Us
Reaching for the
Mountain Splendors
The Wedded
Life
Comfort
Through Personal Helpfulness
The Blessing of
Quietness
Life's
Open Doors
Religion
in the Home
Stretch Forth Your Hand!
By the Still
Waters
Living
Victoriously
The Unrecognized Christ
Coming
to the End
Shut In
When We Are
Laid Aside
His Brother Also
The Beauty of
Kindness
Does God
Care?
The Mystery of Suffering
The One
Who Stands By
Following and Fishing
Be of
Good Cheer!
How Jesus
Comforts His
Friends
After
Bereavement—What?
The Method of Grace
You Will
Not Mind the
Roughness
Why Does No
One Ever See God?
Faults and
Ideals of Young Women
Faults and
Ideals of Young Men
The
Excellent Woman
Glimpses of
the Heavenly Life
Uniting
with the Church
Speak
Tenderly
In
Perfect Peace
Face to Face
with One's Own Life
The Fragrance of the Ointment
If
Two of You Shall Agree
The
Master's Friendships
Friendship with Christ
What to Do
with Our Unequal Chance
Slow and
Steady Advance is the Best
The
Rewards of Obedience
The Path of
Life
The
Living God
The
Fruits of Wisdom
Do the Next Thing
People as a 'Means of Grace'
What to do with One's Life
The Way to
Victory
More White than Black
The Master and the Doubter
The Veiling of Lives
Portions for
Those Who Lack
In
That Which Is Least
The Blessing of Work
The
Thanksgiving Lesson
Learning to Love
The Death of the Young
Is Victory Possible?
The
Other Days
What to Do with Our Unequal
Chance
Mistaken Ministering
Some
Lessons on Spiritual
Growth
Unhealthy Rush in Life
The First Temptation
The Story of Cain and Abel
The Story of Enoch
The Outcome of Lot's Choice
Saul Rejected as King
David and Goliath
The Way of Safety
The Way of the Righteous (Psalm 1)
God's Works and Word (Psalm 19)
David's Confession (Psalm 51)
The Secret of Living
Victoriously!
Solomon's Sin
Naaman the Leper
Isaiah's Call to Service
The Gracious Invitation
Daniel's Principles
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
Israel often Reproved
Jonah Sent to Nineveh
The Seed in the Four Kinds of
Soil
A Troubled Sea
A
Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
True Blessedness
Worldliness
and Trust
The Golden Rule
False
and True Discipleship
Alone, Yet Not Alone
An
Interpreter for God
WORRY
Some Ways of Hiding the Light
Light in
the Darkness
The Beloved
Disciple
The Sin of Lying
Stephen
the First Martyr
Paul
Before King Agrippa
The New Life in
Christ
Paul's Counsel to
the Thessalonians
Paul's
Charge to Timothy
Christian
Service
Lay Work
The
Way to Rise to a Better Job
Winning Church Membership
How the
Church Helps Us
The Best Business
Chains of Gold
The Author
and the Finisher
Forward and
not Back
To
Discouraged Workers
The Use of
the Sabbath
The Making
of a Patriot
To Those Who Ask
The
Blessing of Cheerfulness
"If
any 19th century American
Christian
writer warrants reprinting, it is J. R. Miller! His writing style is
delightfully smooth, his insights are spiritual diamonds on every page,
and his pastoral applications are delivered with the skill of a
well-seasoned physician of souls." (Pastor Bill Shishko)
"His books are restful and
soothing, full of quiet but fresh inspiration and cheery optimism. They have
comforted and encouraged countless thousands of readers."
One friend paid this
tribute to J. R. Miller: "We all loved him. His gentleness made him great. His
winsomeness had no weakness in it. Somehow everybody felt drawn to him. He
seemed so closely in touch with the best in heart and life. He was as gentle as
a child, yet firm as a rock. He was lovable and helpful; always true, always
tender."
"I doubt if there is a
living minister in all the world who has done a greater work, or who is more
internationally known, than Dr. Miller. In the ecclesiastical life, he is the
marvel of the age. He has done the work of ten men. While others were attending
banquets or sitting by their firesides — his tireless feet have been tramping
the streets of the city calling upon the sick and like Paul carrying the gospel
into many homes. Of all the great ministers of the past, not one has wielded
greater influence for good. The whole city should be thankful for the noble life
of this wonderful man!" Talmage
The secret of Miller's
life was summarized in five words that he loved to repeat again and again,
"Jesus and I are friends!" This was the deepest passion of his life — to
know and love Jesus Christ. All he did and all he wrote, came from his vital
relationship with his Friend.
