Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

great fear was, that, in their joy at the hope of a
glorious inheritance so soon to be revealed, they
would receive the doctrine without sufficiently
examining the Scriptures in demonstration of its
truth. I therefore feared to present it, lest, by some
possibility, I should be in error, and be the means
of misleading any.
“Various difficulties and objections would arise
in my mind, from time to time; certain texts would
occur to me, which seemed to weigh against my
conclusions; and I would not present a view to
others, while any difficulty appeared to militate
against it. I therefore continued the study of the
Bible, to see if I could sustain any of these
objections. My object was not merely to remove
them, but I wished to see if they were valid.
“Sometimes, when at work, a text would arise
like this: ‘Of that day and hour knoweth no man,’
etc.; and how, then, could the Bible reveal the time
of the advent? I would then immediately examine
the context in which it was found, and I saw at
once that, in the same connection, we are informed
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