Best Author on Practical Christian Living by J R Miller (1840-1912)

1.              A Gentle Heart

2.              A Life of Character

3.              A Parable of Christian Growth

4.              A Troubled Sea

5.              A Troubled Soul

6.              A Word about TEMPER

7.              After Bereavement—What?

8.              AFTERWARD

9.              Afterward You Will Understand

10.         Alone, Yet Not Alone

11.         AMUSEMENTS

12.         As it is in Heaven

13.         At the Full Price

14.         At the Proper Time We Will Reap

15.         Be of Good Cheer!

16.         Beautiful Old Age
(excerpt on old age)

17.         Because You Are Strong

18.         Behold, the Man!

19.         Being a Comfort to Others

20.         Being Christians on Weekdays

21.         Being Christians on Weekdays

22.         Blessings of Bereavement

23.         Books and Reading

24.         Broken Lives

25.         By the Still Waters

26.         Can We Learn to be Contented?

27.         Cheerful Counsel for Christians

28.         CHOICE EXCERPTS

29.         Choosing to Do HARD Things

30.         Christ and I are Friends

31.         Christian Essentials

32.         Christian Manliness

33.         Christian Motherhood

34.         Christmas Making

35.         Christ’s Deposit with Us

36.         Christ’s Reserve in Teaching

37.         Comfort in Christ’s Knowledge of Us

38.         Comfort Through Personal Helpfulness

39.         Coming to the End

40.         Compensation in Life

41.         Copying but a Fragment

42.         Counsel and Help

43.         Crowding Out the Best

44.         Dangers of Discouragement

45.         Daniel’s Principles

46.         David and Goliath

47.         David’s Confession (Psalm 51)

48.         David’s Joy over Forgiveness

49.         Do Nothing Rashly

50.         Do the Next Thing

51.         Does God Care?

52.         Don’t Worry!

53.         Every Day an Easter

54.         Face to Face with One’s Own Life

55.         False and True Discipleship

56.         Faults and Ideals of Young Men

57.         Faults and Ideals of Young Women

58.         Finding God’s Comfort

59.         Finishing Our Work

60.         For a Busy Day

61.         Forward, and Not Back

62.         Friendship with Christ

63.         Fruit in Its Season

64.         Getting Christ’s Touch

65.         Getting Help From Criticism

66.         Giving What We Have

67.         Glimpses at Life’s Windows

68.         Glimpses of the Heavenly Life

69.         Go Forward!

70.         God’s Works and Word (Psalm 19)

71.         Guarded from Stumbling

72.         Hands: a Study

73.         Hearing and Doing

74.         Heavenly Worship

75.         Helpful People

76.         Helping by Not Hindering

77.         His Brother Also

78.         How Jesus Comforts His Friends

79.         How to Live a Beautiful Christian Life

80.         How to Meet Temptation

81.         I Am the Only One Left!

82.         If Two of You Shall Agree

83.         In Perfect Peace

84.         In That Which Is Least

85.         In the Everlasting Arms

86.         In Time of Defeat

87.         In Time of Loneliness

88.         Into the Desert

89.         Iron Shoes for Rough Roads

90.         Isaiah’s Call to Service

91.         Israel often Reproved

92.         Jesus and I are Friends!

93.         Jonah Sent to Nineveh

94.         Judge as We Judge

95.         Judging Others

96.         Kindness That Comes Too Late

97.         Learning Our Lessons

98.         Learning to Love

99.         Life as a Ladder

100.    Life’s Open Doors

101.    Living up to our Prayers

102.    Living Victoriously

103.    Looking at the Right Side

104.    Looking One’s Soul in the Face

105.    Looking Unto the Hills

106.    Losing SELF in Christ

107.    Losses

108.    Loving Your Neighbor

109.    Loyalty to Christ

110.    Making Life a Song

111.    Manly Men

112.    Minding the ‘Rests’

113.    Ministries that Bless

114.    Mistaken Ministering

115.    Misunderstood

116.    More than Conquerors

117.    More White than Black

118.    Mutual Forbearance

119.    My Will—or God’s Will?

120.    Naaman the Leper

121.    Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

122.    Nevertheless, Afterward

123.    Numbering our Days

124.    Obedience that Pleases Christ

125.    On Loving Others

126.    On the Bearing of Our Burden

127.    One Day at a Time

128.    Other People

129.    Our Daily Bread

130.    Our New Edens
(the Christian home)

131.    Our Unanswered Prayers

132.    Our Undiscovered Faults

133.    Our Deposit with Christ

134.    Paul Before King Agrippa

135.    Paul’s Advice to Timothy

136.    Paul’s Charge to Timothy

137.    Paul’s Counsel to the Thessalonians

138.    Paul’s Last Words

139.    People as a ‘Means of Grace’

140.    People who Fail

141.    Personal Beauty

142.    Pictures in the Heart

143.    Portions for Those Who Lack

144.    PRAYER in the Christian life

145.    Reaching for the Mountain Splendors

146.    Reasons for Not Worrying

147.    Refuge from the Hurt of Tongues

148.    Religion in the Home

149.    Saul Rejected as King

150.    Secrets of Contentment

151.    Secrets of Happy Home Life

152.    Seeds of Light

153.    Service Declined

154.    Shallow Lives

155.    Shut In

156.    Shut Your Door

157.    Slow and Steady Advance is the Best

158.    Solomon’s Sin

159.    Some Lessons on Spiritual Growth

160.    Sorrow in Christian Homes

161.    Speak it Out

162.    Speak Tenderly

163.    Stephen the First Martyr

164.    Steps on the Stairs

165.    Strength and Beauty

166.    Summer Gathering for Winter’s Needs

167.    Taking Cheerful Views

168.    Talking about one’s self

169.    Talking of One’s Ailments

170.    The Basis of Helpfulness

171.    The Beatitude for Sorrow

172.    The Beatitude for the Unsuccessful

173.    The Beautifying of Imperfect Living

174.    The Beauty of Kindness

175.    The Beauty of the Imperfect

176.    The Beauty of the Lord

177.    The Beloved Disciple

178.    The Bible in Life

179.    The Blessing of Hardness

180.    The Blessing of Patience

181.    The Blessing of Quietness

182.    The Blessing of Weakness

183.    The Blessing of Work

184.    The Blossoming of our Thorns

185.    The choice of FRIENDS

186.    The Christian Husband

187.    The Christian in the World

188.    The Christian Wife

189.    The Cost of Being a Blessing

190.    The Cost of Being a Friend

191.    The Cure for Care

192.    The Cure for Weariness

193.    The Duty of Encouragement

194.    The Duty of Fault-Finding

195.    The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow

196.    The Duty of Laughter

197.    The Duty of Pleasing Others

198.    The Duty Waiting Without

199.    The Effacement of SELF

200.    The Engagement Ring

201.    The Ethics of Home-decoration

202.    The Excellent Woman

203.    The Fiery Furnace

204.    The First Temptation

205.    The Fragrance of the Ointment

206.    The Fruits of Wisdom

207.    The Glasses You Wear

208.    The Glory of the Common Life

209.    The Golden Rule

210.    The Grace of Thoughtfulness

211.    The Gracious Invitation

212.    The Habit of Happiness

213.    The Hallowing of Our Burden

214.    The Hidden Life

215.    The Home Conversation

216.    The Home of the Soul

217.    The Influence of Companionship

218.    The Joy of the Lord

219.    The Law of Love

220.    The Lesson of Service

221.    The Living God

222.    The Lord is My Shepherd

223.    The Making of Character

224.    The manliness of Jesus

225.    The Marriage Altar

226.    The Marriage Altar—and After

227.    The Master and the Doubter

228.    The Master’s Friendships

229.    The Method of Grace

230.    The Ministry of Comfort

231.    The Ministry of Encouragement

232.    The Ministry of Hindrances

233.    The Ministry of Kindness

234.    The Mystery of Suffering

235.    The New Life in Christ

236.    The One Who Stands By

237.    The Outcome of Lot’s Choice

238.    The Outer and Inner Life

239.    The Path of Life

240.    The Penitent Woman

241.    The Practice of Immortality

242.    The Privilege of Suffering Wrongfully

243.    The Problem of Christian Old Age

244.    The Refuge in Sorrow

245.    The Rewards of Obedience

246.    The Ripening of Character

247.    The Sacredness of Opportunity

248.    The Seed in the Four Kinds of Soil

249.    The SEEDS We Are Scattering

250.    The Service of Consecration

251.    The Shadows We Cast

252.    The Shepherd Psalm

253.    The SILENT Christ

254.    The Sin of Being a Discourager

255.    The Sin of Lying

256.    The Story of Cain and Abel

257.    The Story of Enoch

258.    The Strength of Quietness

259.    The Sweet Fragrance of Prayer

260.    The Thanksgiving Habit

261.    The Thanksgiving Lesson

262.    The Unrecognized Christ

263.    The Veiling of Lives

264.    The Way of Safety

265.    The Way of the Righteous (Psalm 1)

266.    The Way to Victory

267.    The Wedded Life

268.    The Wider Life

269.    The Word that was NOT Said

270.    The Work of the Plough

271.    The Yoke and the School

272.    The Hidden Life

273.    The Other Days

274.    Things to Leave Undone

275.    This Too, Shall Pass Away

276.    Thoughtfulness and Tact

277.    Thread for a Web Begun

278.    Thunder—or Angel’s Voice?

279.    Tired Feet

280.    Transformed by Beholding

281.    True Blessedness

282.    True Religion

283.    Under God’s Wings

284.    Unfinished Life-building

285.    Uniting with the Church

286.    Wayside Ministries

287.    What God Thinks of Us

288.    What is Consecration?

289.    What to Do with Our Unequal Chance

290.    When We Are Laid Aside

291.    While We May

292.    Wholesome or Unwholesome Living

293.    Why did Peter Fail?

294.    Why Does No One Ever See God?

295.    Worldliness and Trust

296.    You Will Not Mind the Roughness