Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

human chronology, then no human knowledge is
sufficient in this age to rectify it with any degree of
certainty; and I see no good that can be
accomplished by taking a stand for any future
period, with less evidence than we had for 1843-4.
For those who would not believe, with all the
evidence we then produced, we cannot expect will
now believe with much less evidence.
“Again, it is to me almost a demonstration, that
God’s hand is seen in this thing. Many thousands,
to all human appearance, have been made to study
the Scriptures by the preaching of the time; and by
that means, through faith and the sprinkling of the
blood of Christ, have been reconciled to God. And
those of us who have been familiar with the fruits
and effects of the preaching of this doctrine must
acknowledge that He has been with us in so doing,
and His wisdom has in a great measure marked out
our path, which he has devised for such good as he
will accomplish in his own time and manner; as in
the case of Nineveh by the preaching of Jonah. If
this should be the real state of the case, and we
should go on to set other times in the future, we
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