Unto the Hills leads the reader to share the same hope of Jewish pilgrims who found a safe haven in the hills in times of adversity and daily life. He manages to keep the attention and amazement of mind reader to transmit the secrets of the heart of God, which are lines and lines of Psalm 121. James Russell Miller In 1857, James entered Beaver Academy and in 1862 he progressed to Westminster College, Pennsylvania, which he graduated in June 1862. Then in the autumn of that year he entered the theological seminary of the United Presbyterian Church at Allegheny, Pennsylvania.