One of nine child­ren, Mil­li­gan em­i­grat­ed from Eng­land in 1911, and be­came a lay min­is­ter tra­vel­ing a Meth­od­ist cir­cuit in Ac­tin­o­lite, On­tar­io, Can­a­da, for two years. He then be­came an ed­it­or of the Pe­ter­bo­rough Re­view, joined The Globe and Mail as mil­i­ta­ry cor­re­spon­dent at Camp Bor­den in 1914, and lat­er be­came an ed­i­tor­ial writ­er. In 1922, he left to do pub­lic re­la­tions for the Church Union cam­paign. In 1925, he joined the Mail and Em­pire staff, do­ing spe­cial writ­ing, and later did pub­lic re­la­tions work for the On­tar­io De­part­ment of Mines for eight years. His last news­pa­per job was as ed­it­or of the Strat­ford Bea­con-Her­ald, from which he re­tired in 1937. Dur­ing his life, he was al­so co­mmiss­ioned by Lady Ea­ton to write po­ems for her Christ­mas cards for a num­ber of years, was a speech writ­er for Mac­ken­zie King.

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Hymns

1. Hymn to the Pioneers
2. Let There Be Light
3. There’s a Voice in the Wilderness Crying