Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

and others of equal celebrity, were monomaniacs,
and driven by a pitiable or culpable frenzy to the
adoption of their opinions? The truth is, as we
apprehend, that many of those who are so
indecorous and vituperative in their denunciations
of Miller, are in fearful trepidation, lest the day
being so near at hand, ‘should overtake them
unawares,’ and hence, like cowardly boys in the
dark, they make a great noise by way of keeping up
their courage, and to frighten away the bugbears.”
The editor of the “Countryman,” in giving the
Synopsis of Mr. Miller’s views, added:
“The abstract of Miller’s views, which we give
on our fourth page, so far as we give it in this
paper, is and has been, according to what we have
been able to ascertain, the professed belief of
orthodox Christians, from the day of Christ’s
ascension into heaven until the present hour.
Therefore they are not merely Mr. Miller’s views,
but the acknowledged views of the Christian
church, the received Bible doctrine; and if Bible
doctrine, then are they the truth.
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