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title: 'Samuel Miller on the Importance of Pastoral Ministry to Children'
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author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-01-09
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-samuel-miller-on-the-importance-of-pastoral-ministry-to-children
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# Samuel Miller on the Importance of Pastoral Ministry to Children

“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**](/authors/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

