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the world. Thus the popular ministry

undermined faith in the word of God. Their

teaching made men infidels, and many took

license to walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Then the authors of the evil charged it all

upon Adventists.

While drawing crowded houses of intelligent

and attentive hearers, Miller's name was

seldom mentioned by the religious press

except by way of ridicule or denunciation.

The careless and ungodly emboldened by the

position of religious teachers, resorted to

opprobrious epithets, to base and

blasphemous witticisms, in their efforts to

heap contumely upon him and his work. The

gray-headed man who had left a comfortable

home to travel at his own expense from city

to city, from town to town, toiling

unceasingly to bear to the world the solemn