Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller : $b Gathered from his memoir by the late Sylvester Bliss, and from other sources — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller : $b Gathered from his memoir by the late Sylvester Bliss, and from other sources
John Stuart Mill · en
[Illustration: I remain as ever looking for the Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life.
Wm. Miller.]
LIFE OF WILLIAM MILLER.
SKETCHES
OF
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
AND
PUBLIC LABORS
OF
WILLIAM MILLER,
GATHERED FROM HIS MEMOIR BY THE LATE SYLVESTER
BLISS, AND FROM OTHER SOURCES.
BY ELDER JAMES WHITE.
STEAM PRESS
OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
1875.
INTRODUCTION.
Before us is a plain volume, the title page of which reads, “Memoir of
William Miller generally known as a Lecturer on the Prophecies and the
Second Coming of Christ, by Sylvester Bliss, author of Analysis of Sacred
Chronology, a brief Commentary on the Apocalypse,” etc.
Mr. Bliss was for more than twenty years the local and able conductor of
the _Advent Herald_, which sustained the leading doctrines promulgated
by Mr. Miller, published at Boston, Mass. The publisher of this volume,
Elder Joshua V. Himes, Mr. Miller’s intimate fellow-laborer and friend,
in his preface says:—
“The name of William Miller, of Low Hampton, N. Y., is too well known
to require an extended introduction; but while well known, few men have
been more diversely regarded than he. Those who have only heard his name
associated with all that is hateful in fanaticism, have necessarily
formed opinions respecting him anything but complimentary to his
intelligence and sanity; but those who knew him better, esteemed him as
a man of more than ordinary mental power, a cool, sagacious, and honest
reasoner, a humble and devout Christian, a kind and affectionate friend,
a man of great moral and social worth.
“However his public labors may be regarded by a majority of the
community, it will be seen, by a perusal of his life, that these were
by no means unproductive of great good. The revivals of religion which
attended his labors are testified to by those who participated in them;
and hundreds of souls will ever refer to him as a means, under God, of
their awakening and conversion.”
“As the public learn to discriminate between the actual position of Mr.
Miller and that which prejudice has conceived that he occupied, his
conservativeness, and his disapprobation of every fanatical practice will
be admitted, and a much more just estimate will be had of him.”