Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

efficient missionary. I went so far in my
imagination as to calculate that one a week for each
missionary would be light work; and this,
continued in arithmetical progression, to my
surprise I found the whole world would be
converted to see eye to eye in a very few months.
“What can this mean? said I to myself. Has not
the world wisdom enough to have tried this plan?
Surely there are thousands now living on the earth
wiser and better than myself; why has not the thing
been tried and succeeded before?
“I then began to look about for a precedent, and
my mind first reverted to Jesus Christ. Surely, said
I, he had, when on the earth, more wisdom than all
living, for the devising of means; he had all power
to accomplish his plans; he had love enough to
prompt him to execute it, for he gave his life to
redeem lost man; and, if this plan would insure
success, he would never fail.
“I therefore reviewed his life. The first act of
his ministry was to send out his twelve disciples,
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