Making the Most of Life
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A Word of Introduction.
To have the gift of life is a solemn thing. Life is God's most sacred trust. It is not ours to do with as we please; it must be accounted for—every particle, every power, every possibility of it.
These chapters are written with the purpose and hope of stimulating those who may read them to earnest and worthy living. If they seem urgent, if they present continually motives of thoughtfulness, if they dwell almost exclusively on the side of obligation and responsibility, if they make duty ever prominent and call to self-renunciation and self-sacrifice, leaving small space for play—it is because life itself is really most serious, and because we must meet it seriously, recognizing its sacred meaning and girding ourselves for it with all earnestness and energy.
If this book shall teach any how to make the most of the life God has entrusted to them, that will be reward enough for the work of its preparation. To this service it is affectionately dedicated, in the name of Him who made the most of his blessed life—by losing it in love's sacrifice, and who calls us also to die to self that we may live unto God.
J. R. Miller
Part 1
1. Making the Most of Life
2. Laid on God's Altar
3. Christ's Interest in Our Common Life
4. The Possibilities of Prayer
5. Getting Christ's Touch
6. The Blessing of a Burden
7. Heart-peace Before Ministry
8. Moral Curvatures
9. Transfigured Lives
10. the Interpretation of Sorrow
11. Other People
12. The Blessing of Faithfulness
Part 2
13. Without Axe or Hammer
14. Doing Things for Christ
15. Helping and Over-helping
16. The Only One
17. Swiftness in Duty
18. The Shadows We Cast
19. The Meaning of Opportunities
20. The Sin of Ingratitude
21. Some Secrets of Happy Home Life
22. God's Winter Plants
23. Unfinished Life-building
24. Iron Shoes for Rough Roads
25. The Shutting of Doors
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