Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

evening the number was about eighty.”
In the month of May following, Rev. A. A.
Stevens (Orthodox Cong.), then a member of Yale
College, in a letter to the “Midnight Cry,” stated
that “the powerful and glorious revival which then
commenced continued for some two months, with
almost unabated interest.”
At the close of these lectures, Mr. M. returned
to New York city, where he gave six discourses,
from the 27th to the 29th of November, and then
returned to Low Hampton. Arriving home, he
wrote as follows:
Low Hampton, December 7th, 1842.
“Dear Brother Himes. ... I did not get home till
10 o’clock on Saturday night. On Wednesday, at 6
o’clock, P. M., same day we left New York, we
were brought up all standing in a snow-bank,
which we kept bunting, with two or three
locomotives, until the next evening at 6 o’clock.
On Thursday, by the mighty power of three
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