Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

to be as often contradicted.
On the 15th of September, in compliance with
“the wish of many in Rutland, Vt.,” who were
“very anxious to hear” his “course of lectures,” he
visited that place, and lectured each day, to the
22nd, when he returned to his family, and made
arrangements for a second visit to Massachusetts.
He commenced his labors at Groton, Mass., on
the 13th of October, and lectured ten days. In
reference to these lectures and others in
neighboring towns, Rev. Silas Hawley,
Congregational minister, wrote from Groton, on
the 10th of April, 1840, as follows:-
“Mr. Miller has lectured in this and adjoining
towns with marked success. His lectures have been
succeeded by precious revivals of religion in all
those places. A class of minds are reached by him
not within the influence of other men. His lectures
are well adapted, so far as I have learned, for
shaking the supremacy of the various forms of
error that are rife in the community.”
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