“‘This I can truly say is my chief desire. It is my meditation all the day long. It is my song in the night, and my faith and hope amidst the scenes of this sin-cursed earth. It consoles me in sickness, comforts me in tribulation, and gives me patience to endure the scoffs and tauntings of an ungodly, selfish, and unfeeling world. My faith and confidence in God’s word is as strong as ever; although he has not come in the time I expected. I still believe the time is not far off, and that God will soon, yes, too soon for the proud scoffers, justify himself, his word, and the cry of alarm which has been given through your indefatigable labors, with others whom God has raised up to assist in giving the midnight cry. “‘I am highly gratified with your present position; if you had gone to criticising words in order to find another time, yet future, men would not have thought you honest in your views, would have lost all confidence in you, and the good you have done would have been neutralized, had you shifted or changed your ground. “‘You have good, honest and sure ground yet to stand upon; for Christ says, “_So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know that he is near, even at the door._” Now we have lived to see all the signs fulfilled, the time accomplished. “_Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come._” “‘This is the position I have now to take, and what more work I have to do, will be done in this manner. I will, “‘1. PROVE BY SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY THAT TIME IS FULFILLED. “‘2. SHOW THE SIGNS ALL COMPLETED. “‘3. THE DUTY OF WATCHING, FOR WE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR THE LORD MAY COME. And if God has anything more for me to do in his vineyard, he will give me strength, open the door, and enable me to do whatever may be his will, for his glory and the best good for man. “‘To him I leave the event, for him I watch and pray, saying, “COME, LORD JESUS, COME QUICKLY. AMEN. _Even so, come, Lord Jesus._” “‘WILLIAM MILLER.’ “On the 2d of May he wrote as follows:— “‘TO SECOND ADVENT BELIEVERS.... “‘Were I to live my life over again, with the same evidence that I then had, to be honest with God and man I should have to do as I have done. Although opposers said it would not come, they produced no weighty arguments. It was evidently guess-work with them; and I then thought, and do now, that their denial was based more on an unwillingness for the Lord to come than on any arguments leading to such a conclusion.