Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

and believe you have read it with new delight. I
fear not that you can ever be satisfied with the
views of our opponents; their manner of explaining
Scripture is too carnal to satisfy the devoted child
of God.
“Then let me advise to a continual searching
for truth, both for faith and practice; and, wherever
we have wandered from the word of God, let us
come back to the primitive simplicity of the gospel
once delivered to the saints. Thus we shall be
found ready at his coming to give an account of our
stewardship, and hear our blessed Master say,
‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter
thou into the joy of thy Lord.’ Every truth we get
from the blessed book prepares us better for his
coming and kingdom. Every error prevents us, in
part, from being ready. Let us, then, stand strong in
the faith, with our loins girt about with truth, and
our lamps trimmed and burning, and waiting for
our Lord, ready to enter the promised land, the true
inheritance of the saints. This year the fullness of
time will come, the shout of victory will be heard
in heaven, the triumphant return of our great
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