Memoirs of William Miller, Generally Known as a Lecturer on the Prophecies, and the Second Coming of Christ (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...wilderness is yet to be explored and settled. Then the world is yet in its infancy--not two thousand years old yet; and you know we have a tradition that the earth is to wax old like a garment. It cannot be true, what the old man tells you. I will, warrant you the earth will stand many thousand years yet. "Host. Look look there goes the old fool and his family now, I dare say, into the ark. I remember me now, the old man told us, four days ago, that, in seven days (Gen. 7: 4--10), God would cause it to rain sufficient to destroy every living thing from the face of the earth. I shall have a chance to laugh at the old man four days hence. I told him to his face that, after his seven days were ended, he would be ashamed to preach any more, and we should have some quiet then. " Guest. But do your priests let him preach in their congregations and societies? " Host. 0 no by no means; that is, none that are called respectable, or of the higher class. Why, sir, they held a meeting last night at my banqueting house. After the cloth was removed, and while the wine was circulating freely, old Noah was the subject of the toast. And it would have done you good to have heard their sharp cuts and squibs; it caused a roar of laughter among the guests. See, yonder come some of them now. Let us go in, and enjoy another treat. They go in.) " Ah, said I, were these scenes acted before the flood, and will it be so in the end of the world 1 And will the generation of the righteous not pass off until they behold these things acted over again? So says our blessed Saviour, and so I believe. " Then shall l heaven and earth pass away.' The righteous will pass off to meet their Lord, and the wicked be consumed to cleanse the world. Then will the prophecy in this chapter...