“After the observation and experience of a long life, I have come decisively to the conclusion, that, if I had my life to live over again, I would pay ten times as much attention to the children of my charge, as I ever did when I had a pastoral charge. If I were now about to undertake the care of a new or feeble church, I should consider special attention to the children and young people of the neighborhood as one of the most certain and effectual methods of collecting and strengthening a large flock that, humanly speaking, could possibly be employed.” — Samuel Miller, September 4, 1848 Letter to Ansley D. White in Samuel Miller, Jr., The Life of Samuel Miller, D.D., LL.D., Vol. 2 (1869), p. 502