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lot with those who confessed Christ before men. On 

 this point there was to be no further debate. By one 

 supreme act of resolution he defined the future of his 

 soul's life. Aided, as he reverently believed, by the 

 Divine Spirit, he placed his trust in the power, truth, 

 and goodness of the Infinite One, as revealed in Jesus of 

 Nazareth. But the religion of Miller, though from this 

 time it lay entwined with the deepest roots of his being 

 and was the supreme and determining element in his 

 character, came little to the surface. It was an unseen 

 force, a hidden fire, influencing him at all moments, but 

 never obtruded on the public eye. It would have 

 been offensive to all the instincts of his modest and 

 manly nature to unveil the secret places of his soul to 

 the general observer. 



The reader may have remarked that, in his letters to 

 Ross, Miller assumes that part of Mentor, which, in the 

 other correspondence, is taken so decisively by Swanson. 

 The influence emanates from Swanson, and Hugh passes 

 it on to Ross. His relations with the latter appear to 

 have been of a more tenderly confidential character than 

 his relations with the former. 



