Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

and smitten, yet he would heal them, and bind them
up. In due time he would gather them into one fold;
he would bind up all their wounds, and heal them
of all their maladies. He would visit their
transgressions with a rod, and their iniquities with
stripes; but his loving kindness he would not take
from them.”
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An extract from his lecture on the parable of
the “ten virgins.” will close these specimens. He
thus gives his understanding of what is denoted by
their “trimming” their lamps.
“The world, for a number of years, have been
trimming their lamps, and the wise and foolish
have been engaged in translating the word of God
into almost every language known to us upon the
earth. Mr. Judson tells us that it has been translated
into one hundred and fifty languages within thirty
years; that is, three times the number of all the
translations known to us before. Then fourfold
light has been shed among the nations, within the
short period of the time above specified; and we
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