1840_Miller's Theory Utterly Exploded (critique).pdf

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THE

THEORY OF WILLIAM MILLER,

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THE END OF THE WORLD IN 1848,

- UTTERLY EXPLODED.

BEING

FIVE DISCOURSES

BY OTIS A. SKINNER,

WITH

SOME OTHER ESSAYS

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ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

g!. THOMAS WHITTEMORE,

b: BOSTON:

Entored according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by THOHAS

W~ITTPYOI~,

in the Clerk)# Othce OF the Diatrict Court of the

PREFACE.

sermons are published in the hope,

that they may enlighten the community in re-

gard to the important subjects which are there-

in discussed. William Miller was invited to

deliver his lectures in the Baptist Meeting-

house in Cambridgeport ; and many efforts

weri made to get up an excitement, miscalled

a revi.ral of relikion. Several very respect-

able citizens of that peaceful village, entirely

disapproving the course of those who had in-

troduced Mr. Miller into the place, and wish-

ing to defend the sacred Scriptures against

his manifest perversions, so fatally calculated

to turn the Bible into ridicule, and lead men

into infidelity, invited the Rev. 0. A. Skinner

to prepare and deliver these discourses in that

place ; and subsequently obtained the use of

the Universalist Chapel for that purpose. Mr.

Skinner reluctantly consented to discharge this

duty, thinking it a poor compliment to the

THESE

PREFACE.

good sense of community, to judge any for-

mal refutation of so absurd a theory to be

necessary. But it was urged upon his con-

sideration, that much injurious excitement had

been already produced ; and that men, who,

in themselves, are deserving of no attention

at all, may be made worthy of it, when those

who profess to be the pastors and guides of

the flock, make use of them as tools to ac-

complish sectarian purposes. For these rea-

sons, and these alone, this work is now given

to the public. We hope it will be read, not

with an idle curiosity, but with a sincere desire

to know what the word-of God says on the

subject of the coming of Christ, and its at-

tendant events. These lectures will be found

to cover all the principal ground of Mr. Miller's

theory ; and they are sent out with the ardent

prayer, that they may be instrumental of much

good.

T. W.

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