“May we not believe that ofttimes the primary reason why good men are called to suffer is for the sake of the witness they may give to the sincerity of their love for Christ and the reality of divine grace in them? The world sneers at religious profession. It refuses to believe that it is genuine. It defiantly asserts that what is called Christian principle is only interested selfishness, and that it would not stand severe testing. Then good men are called to endure loss, suffering or sorrow, not because there is any particular evil in themselves that needs to be eradicated, but because the Master needs their witness to answer the sneers of the world.” — J.R. Miller, The Ministry of Comfort (1901), pp. 59-60