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of their earlier discipleship? He who is “able

to do exceeding abundantly above all that we

ask or think,” had granted them, with the

fellowship of His sufferings, the communion

of His joy—the joy of “bringing many sons

unto glory,” joy unspeakable, an “eternal

weight of glory,” to which, says Paul, “our

light affliction, which is but for a moment,” is

“not worthy to be compared.”

The experience of the disciples who preached

the “gospel of the kingdom” at the first

advent of Christ, had its counterpart in the

experience of those who proclaimed the

message of His second advent. As the

disciples went out preaching, “The time is

fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand,” so

Miller and his associates proclaimed that the

longest and last prophetic period brought to

view in the Bible was about to expire, that the