The Blessing of Cheerfulness

By JR Miller

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.
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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Tree Publishing
• Release date: Mar 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781912529704

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About the Book

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.

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.

The Blessing of Cheerfulness

JR Miller

(1840-1912)

eBook ISBN: 978-1-912529-70-4

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Book

About the Author

Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

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Author Biography

James Russell Miller was an amazingly prolific Christian author. In addition to having the post of Editorial Superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, he was the pastor of several Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania and Illinois during his working life. He was born on March 20, 1840 near Frankfort Springs, Pennsylvania. His parents had a total of ten children, but his older sister died before he was born. When James was about fourteen years old, his father moved to a farm near Calcutta, Ohio. In the new home James was as popular among his schoolmates as he had been in his Pennsylvania home.

We can see when reading about James Miller’s early family life, how it is that he was able to write with great understanding and sympathy about the needs of individual Christians. His biographer, John T. Faris, (The Life of Dr. J. R. Miller: Jesus and I Are Friends 1912) tells us that, "The young people of the neighborhood