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Things to Live For

By J.R. Miller


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   Chapter 1 - Things That are Worth While - THINGS TO LIVE FOR by J. R. Miller, 1896 "So that you may be able to discern what is best--and may be pure and blameless until the day of Chr ...read
   Chapter 2 - The Seriousness of Living - All life is serious. We are not butterflies, to flutter a little while in the air and then drop into the dust. The words we speak and the things we do ...read
   Chapter 3 - Wholesome or Unwholesome Living - The word wholesome means whole, sound, having perfect health. It is applied usually to conditions. Thus we speak of a wholesome climate, meaning a cli ...read
   Chapter 4 - The Duty of Being Strong - There is a duty of being strong. Strength is not a mere happy gift that falls to the lot of certain favored people, while others are doomed to weaknes ...read
   Chapter 5 - The Blessing of Simple Goodness - After all, there are few ways in which most of us can do better service for Christ in this world--than just by being good. Sir Walter Scott's farewell ...read
   Chapter 6 - Living up to Our Privileges - "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I ...read
   Chapter 7 - The Lesson of Service - Jesus taught that we should live, "not to be served--but to serve" This is a lesson that it is very hard to learn. It is easy enough to utter sentimen ...read
   Chapter 8 - The Grace of Thoughtfulness - "I didn't think!" is what people say ofttimes when they suddenly become aware of the pain which some heedless act or careless word of theirs has given ...read
   Chapter 9 - The Seeds we are Scattering - In one sense, when a baby is born--its life is only a patch of soil in which, as yet, nothing is growing. A mother's hand is the first to plant seeds ...read
   Chapter 10 - Knowledge and Love - Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider. --Quarles One of Paul's pithy sayings is, "Knowled ...read
   Chapter 11 - Dangers of Discouragement - We are not apt to think of discouragement as either dangerous or sinful. Some people seem to think it rather a pleasant experience than otherwise; at ...read
   Chapter 12 - Talking About One's Self - "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So w ...read
   Chapter 13 - Why Did You Fail? - It grieved Jesus to have his disciples fail in their faith. One reason was personal. The joy of being trusted is one of the holiest experiences that c ...read
   Chapter 14 - Passing by on the Other Side - "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, le ...read
   Chapter 15 - Over-Waiting For God - A great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God's delays. Much of ...read
   Chapter 16 - The Only Safe Committal - In one of the psalms is a sentence of committal, the full force of which is not usually noted. The words read: "Into your hand I commend my spirit. Yo ...read
   Chapter 17 - The Beatitude for Sorrow - A great preacher has said, "It is worth our thought how small that audience must be that would assemble, life through, to listen to a gospel that said ...read
   Chapter 18 - Blessings of Bereavement - At first we would be disposed to say that no blessings can come out of bereavements. But the grace of God has such wondrous power, that even from the ...read
   Chapter 19 - How They Stay With Us - DEATH is ever bearing away the fresh and fair and beautiful ones of earth--and leaving hearts bleeding, and homes desolate. Apart from the religion of ...read
   Chapter 20 - The Hallowing of our Burden - We miss much, by not giving heed to the marginal readings in our reference Bibles. Ofttimes a new light falls upon a verse or a word, when we have not ...read
   Chapter 21 - The Cost of Helpfulness - Every blessing that comes to us--is made sacred by its cost. To us it may be given freely; but, before it could be given, a price was paid for it! One ...read
   Chapter 22 - Loving and Hating One's Life - Our Lord's teaching is that only the life which is lost in love--is really saved. The illustration is in the little parable of the grain of wheat. "I ...read
   Chapter 23 - Taking God Into Counsel - "I will commit my way, O Lord, to Thee, Nor doubt your love, though dark the way may be, Nor murmur, for the sorrow is from God, And there is comfort ...read
   Chapter 24 - This Life and the After Life - The continuity of life hereafter, is a Bible teaching. There is no real break in life. Jesus said, "Whoever lives and believes in me shall never die." ...read

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