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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