Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

I have never taught a neglect of any of the duties of
life, which make us good parents, children,
neighbors, or citizens. I have ever inculcated a
faithful performance of all those duties, enjoining
good works with faith and repentance. Those who
have taught the neglect of these, instead of acting
with me, or being my followers, as they are called,
have departed from my counsels, and acted in
opposition to my uniform teachings; men have
crept in unawares, who have given heed to
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, teaching
lies in hypocrisy, denying any personal existence
of Christ, forbidding to marry, and commanding to
abstain from certain kinds of food, denying the
right to pray for sinners, and commanding to
violate our social duties, etc. With such things I
have no sympathy.
“The doctrine of annihilation and the soul’s
unconsciousness in death has been connected in the
minds of some with the doctrine of the Advent.
With this there is no necessary connection. This its
advocates acknowledge. The doctrine of the
Advent was the faith of the primitive church; while
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