of the Apostle Paul; and the Spirit of God and Paul's spirit witnessed one with another. You get the idea then of our text, that our spirits bear witness with God's Spirit, and this brings happiness and joy while here in this pilgrimage, and when we come to die and to cross the river of death, it will be a rod and a staff to comfort us.

One more thought in regard to the subject and then we are done. The apostle says God's Spirit bears witness with our spirit to prove that we are the children of God. Don't get too limited an idea of this subject. This is a relationship that we want enjoyed by you all. And oh, we want more than that. We want the fact that we are the children of God proven to the world. God is bearing witness with our spirits, proving to the world that we are the children of God. There should be sufficient in your lives to convince the world that you are the children of God. How important that our lives as individuals, that our actions and conduct, all together should be a witness before the world, proving that we are the children of God! There should be harmony. Oh! If God would give his own Son as a . Witness; if in God's Spirit there was so much love, that he would give his only Son to save the world, our spirits should come in harmony with that Spirit. We should know that Spirit; get the power of that Spirit, and work as God did for the salvation of men.

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This gives us the idea of our work. This gives us the idea of our spiritual relation to God. should ever lead us beyond the mere pursuit of

earthly things. It should turn us to the immortal Spirit that lives eternal; that makes our fellowship and communion with God. It should turn us to our race and help us to look at it. We may see them drunk and degraded in every form, and we may probably turn away with a feeling of indifference. But don't do that! There is a spark of divinity in all men, however debased, and it is your duty to bring them back to the image and likeness of God. Bring your spirits, desires, affections and energies all in harmony with the Spirit of God, and prove to the world that you are his children, and let every effort be put forth to save sinners. May God bless and enable you to gather up the indifferent, and take them with you, and bring them into a practical relationship with God, is my prayer.

CHAPTER X.

LATER LIFE AND DEATH.

When we closed the direct narrative of Brother Robert's life in chapter one, his home had been broken up. The mother had gone. to join her four children on the other side of the river. The father and four children were left to mourn the departure of the dear ones for eternity. A mother's love and care were gone, and without this there can be no happy home. For one and a half years the family circle was thus incomplete. Then it was reestablished by an event of which D. P. Saylor tells the readers of the Gospel Preacher, Sept. 27, 1881:

"Married,-By Elder D. P. Saylor, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 1881, at the home of the bride's mother near Ladiesburg, Md., Elder R. H. Miller, of Ashland City, Ashland County, Ohio, and Sister Emma Norris, of Frederick County, Maryland.

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While we regret the loss of our dear sister from among us, we congratulate our Brother Miller in his happy choice of so amiable a sister for his wife. Our best wishes and prayers go with her to her new home in Ohio, where she will be a comfort to her husband and a light to the church. God bless the happy pair. D. P. S."

After a few months of happy married life at Ashland, Brother Robert resigned the presidency

of the college and editorship of the Gospel Preacher. Soon after this he made arrangements to move to North Manchester, Ind. To this place he moved his family in the spring of 1882. After a short residence in the city, he moved to a farm which the brethren assisted him to buy.

His task in the North Manchester church was no easy one to perform. There were all classes of members, from radical Old Order Brethren to radical progressives. It was just at that period when both extreme elements were leaving the church. How to handle a church of some three hundred members, where such conditions prevailed, was a serious question. As it was, the church at North Manchester lost many members; with a less skillful leader the loss would have been much greater. His unquestioned loyalty to the church and his broad-minded views had their influence on all.

As an elder he was a success. He was mild, but firm. He was able to grasp both sides of any trouble and was generally successful in bringing opposing parties together. He was not a partisan in any case, and so rarely failed to keep the respect of all concerned. He had views too broad to be servile to rigid rules of discipline.

As a leader, he never desired to go faster than he could take the body of the church with him. With him the great question was union. How to keep that and yet sacrifice no gospel principle was the question that most concerned him in directing his church. That his work was successful can be judged from the fact that at the time of his death

the North Manchester congregation was one of the strongest and most loyal churches in the Brotherhood.

In the Middle District of Indiana he was everywhere loved and respected. To the elders of that District he was as a father. To him they looked for advice, and even today his counsels are followed by many bishops who once were associated with him and received his lessons. He was not, however, independent in thought and action, but often went to his brethren for advice and help. He repeatedly served as moderator of district meeting and was nearly always chosen to help settle trouble in churches. He seemed to have reduced church government to a science of which he was thoroughly acquainted with all its problems.

Brother Robert was highly respected in the community in which he lived, both by the members and those out of the church. When he lived at Ladoga it was said that he could hardly get out of town, after being absent from home, because of his many friends who desired to talk with him. He had few real intimate friends, though all reverenced him because of his noble character and superior wisdom. At North Manchester his most intimate associates were two brethren in the laity, Daniel Horning and Abram Miller. The latter is still living at the ripe old age of eighty-five. They probably 'understood him better than any one else outside his family. He often visited his near neighbors. He seldom stayed long, but he had a good, cheerful conversation while he did stay.