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“Now despisers look and wonder, Hope and Sinners here must part, Louder than a peal of thunder Hear the dreadful sound ‘Depart!’ Lost forever! How it quails the Sinner’s heart!” […]

“Hark, the Sinner thus lamentingAt the thought of future pain;Cries, and tears he now is venting,But he cries and weeps in vain;Greatly mourningThat he ne’er was born again.”—The Millenial Harp, […]

“I am bound for the kingdom,Will you go to glory with me?Hallelujah, O Hallelujah!I am bound for the kingdom,Will you go to glory with me?Hallelujah, O praise the Lord!” Old […]

“A pathless Comet, The menace of the Universe; Still rolling on with innate force, Without a sphere, without a course.” The year had no sooner opened than fanaticism, which had […]

“That awful day will surely come,Th’ appointed hour makes haste.” From ‘The Millennial Harp’ (published by Joshua V. Himes, 1843) It happened this way: The Reverend Joshua V. Himes was […]

“Nature in wild amaze Her dissolution mourns; Blushes of blood the moon deface, The sun to darkness turns.” Old camp-meeting hymn Man is used to looking up at the starry […]

“My thoughts on awful subjects roll: Damnation and the dead.” Dr. Watts There were two incidents that occurred during William Miller’s military career, just as he was about to return […]

“A youth to whom has given So much of earth, so much of heaven.” “What kind of a man could William Miller have been?” is the wondering question often asked […]

Meteorologists record atmospheric perturbations as scientific facts, as well as electrical disturbances, cold waves, heat waves, magnetic currents, and other invisible forces influencing man’s physical nature. There are also scientists […]

Having lived part of each year for many years in the very heart of what was once one of the most vital rural centers of the great excitement in 1843–44, […]