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Views of the Prophecies and Prophetic Chronology
Views of the Prophecies and Prophetic Chronology Author:William Miller Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART SECOND. ADDRESS AND LECTURES. AN ADDRESS TO THE BELIEVERS IN THE SECOND ADVENT NEAR, SCATTERED ABROAD. My Dear Brethren And Friends :— Grace,... more » mercy and peace be multiplied unto you, from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. In time past, I have travelled quite extensively in the U. States and in Canada, publishing the glorious news of the near approach of the Second Coming of the dear Savior, to tens of thousands, both of saints and sinners. With many of these, I have formed the happiest acquaintance. It would afford me the greatest pleasure to meet those friends again, and renew an acquaintance so happy and endearing. But for this I cannot hope in this world. You will therefore permit me to address you, through the only medium now left me, on the glorious subject which has occupied your and my attention for several years past. It may be the last time I shall be favored with of addressing my friends scattered abroad, to whom I am bound by so many tender ties. As a friend of mine has conceived the idea of publishing another volume of my productions, which may fall into tne hands of very many of my old friends who will pee my face no more in this world, I avail myself of the privilege of appending to the same this address, containing my solemn, and, perhaps, last advice to you all, and thereby clearing the skirts of my garments of the blood of all. It is about nine years since I first began to publish the doctrine of the Advent near; though I had been fully convinced of its truth long before, by a close and patient study of the Bible. But such were the difficulties attending its promulgation, that I was restrained from the duty for a long; time. And when /oi. consider the circumstances in which I was pla .ed, you will not wonder that I shrunk, for a t...« less