Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

he dictated. He desired the continuance of letters
from his correspondents, but requested them to
excuse him from replying.
The hope of soon meeting them where the lame
man shall leap as an hart, the tongue of the dumb
sing, the blind receive their sight, and the deaf
hear, and the belief in the nearness of that day, was
a great consolation to him under his accumulating
infirmities. His loss of sight was communicated by
his son, Wm. S. Miller, Esq., in a letter dated
February 10th, about two weeks after his attack.
On the 7th of March, a letter, from a daughterin-law
of Mr. Miller, stated that his general health
was then better, but that he had been unable to read
a word for seven weeks anterior to the preceding
Sabbath. On that day, his son Robbins took the
glass from the spy-glass, and held it to his eye, so
that he read a few words. She added:--
“His eyes are not sore: the physician whom he
has consulted says the retina is affected. Father
bears his affliction well. I have never heard him
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