Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

appointed a day, in which he would judge the
world in righteousness, by that man, Jesus Christ;
and your unworthy brother in Christ proclaims that
the day is at hand, when ‘he that is filthy will be
filthy still, and he that is holy will be holy still’;
and that Christ is now standing at the door and
knocking for the last time. And, my dear brother, I
can truly say ‘that the testimony of Jesus is the
spirit of prophecy.’ And yet how many professed
ministers of Christ, at the present day, treat that
part of the word with total neglect, and even laugh
and jeer at those who would warn the people of
their approaching danger. But God has supported
me beyond my most sanguine expectation. And
although they say much before they hear, yet when
they do hear they seem confounded.
“The evidence is so clear, the testimony is so
strong, that we live on the eve of the present
dispensation, towards the dawn of the Glorious
Day, that I wonder why ministers and people do
not wake up and trim their lamps. Yes, my brother,
almost two years since you heard the news,
‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh!’ -- and yet you
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