Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

eceived for his expenses. Subsequent to that time,
as he says in his “Apology and Defence,” he never
received enough to meet his expenses of travel to
the places where he was invited; so that his public
labors were never of any pecuniary advantage to
him, as has been currently reported and believed;
but, on the contrary, they were a heavy tax on his
property, which gradually decreased during that
period of his life.
On the 21st of July, he writes, from Low
Hampton, to Elder Hendryx:--
“I have been confined at home, for three weeks
past by a bilious complaint. I was taken unwell
while lecturing at Lansingburgh, N. Y.; but I
finished my course of lectures, and returned home,
and have not been well since. My lectures were
well received in that place, and excited attention.
The house was filled to overflowing for eight days
in succession. I feel that God was there, and
believe that in his glorified kingdom I shall see the
fruits. ... Infidels, Deists, Universalists and
sectarians, were all chained to their seats, in perfect
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