Devoted to the Propagation and Defense of New Testament Christianity
VOLUME 9
September 5, 1957
NUMBER 18, PAGE 11b

Obituary

By C. D. Crouch

"MILLER — Brother A. P. Miller was born November 12, 1915. He was married to Dimple Bruton, at Haynesville, Louisiana, October 10, 1936. About six months after this marriage, doubtless being influenced to some degree by his wife, he was baptized into Christ, at Haynesville. Two children were born to this union, both boys, and the eldest lived only a few hours. When Brother Miller became a Christian all of him became a Christian. It was my privilege and pleasure to know him the last two years of his life, and to labor with him in the kingdom. I loved him almost as if he were my own son. In all my years as a Christian and more than fifty years as a preacher of the gospel, I have never known a more devoted Christian. The Miller family was a rare family. Pete loved his wife and son with a devotion rarely equaled. and never surpassed. I am convinced that he loved the Lord even more.

An employee of the Gulf Oil Company for the past fifteen years, he was transferred to the Baxterville oil field several years ago. For a time he, and his family, together with a few other members of the "body of Christ" drove considerably more than twenty miles, and back, twice each Lord's day to worship with the saints. Then an effort was made to establish the church at Baxterville. Brother Miller gave unstintingly of his time and his money toward the establishment of this church. He would gladly drive miles out of his way to furnish a conveyance to some one to attend the meetings of the church.

He numbered his friends by his acquaintances, and the floral tribute at his funeral (the largest I have ever seen) spoke loudly of the fact that they were numerous. His meek and quiet spirit left the old tenement of clay at 3:45 a. m. on June 12, and the body was carried to Haynesville, Louisiana, where after a brief funeral service in the meetinghouse of the church of Christ, at 2:30 p. m. on the 13th of June, it was laid to rest beside that of an infant son — until the morning breaks and shadows flee away.