Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

our post, or be caught in a snare, when the Son of
Man shall come. It is better to be ready before the
time, and to wait a while, than not to be ready
when the time shall come, -- to be lost. We exhort
you, then, with the Lord’s advice, ‘Be like men
waiting for their Lord, that when he cometh they
may open to him immediately.’
“Again we exhort you, brethren, that every one
may edify and be edified, that you forsake not the
assembling of yourselves together as often as your
situation and circumstances shall permit; that we
may comfort and console each other in our trials,
be ourselves established in the present truth, and
our minds be stirred up to remember that our Judge
standeth at the door. How can we, who have taken
so much delight in the study of the blessed Bible,
return to the beggarly elements of vain philosophy
and traditions of the fathers? ...
“Again, we exhort you, brethren, to be faithful
in business. Let every one labor with his hands in
the several callings in which God has placed us,
that none of us may be a burden to any, and that we
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