Category: Days of Delusion

And Elder Himes? – that complex character, that indefatigable revivalist – what was his end? Well, after publishing newspapers, tracts, books, and pamphlets full of exhortations to the Brethren to […]

“Watchman! tell us of the night,For the morning seems to dawn.Traveler, darkness takes its flight;Doubt and terror are withdrawn!” The foregoing accounts of the various ways in which the coming […]

“And here we wander in illusions; Some blessed power deliver us from hence!” The following facts and incidents concerning Mary Hartwell and her betrothed lover, Enoch Robertson, during these last […]

“When shriveling like a parched scroll,The flaming heavens together roll,And louder yet and yet more dread,Resounds the trump that wakes the dead!” Millerite hymn Most of the towns and villages […]

“T’is time we all awake; The dreadful day draws near; Sinners, your proud presumption check, And stop your wild career!” Millerite hymn No mere words can adequately express the breathless […]

“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 […]