Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

is any evidence of interest in the subject of the
lectures, it cannot be said that our community are
devoid of feeling on this momentous question.
“Mr. Miller was accompanied and assisted by
Rev. J. V. Himes, who is by no means an
inefficient coadjutor in this great and important
work. We did not attend the whole course, the last
three lectures being all we had an opportunity of
hearing. We were utterly disappointed. So many
extravagant things had been said of the ‘fanatics’ in
the public prints, and such distorted statements
published in reference to their articles of faith, that
we were prepared to witness disgusting and
perhaps blasphemous exhibitions of ‘Millerism,’ as
the doctrine of the Second Advent is called.
“In justice to Mr. Miller we are constrained to
say, that he is one of the most interesting lecturers
we have any recollection of ever having heard. We
have not the least doubt that he is fully convinced
of the truth of the doctrine he labors so diligently to
inculcate, and he certainly evinces great candor and
fairness in his manner of proving his points. And
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