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warning of the judgment near, was

sneeringly denounced as a fanatic, a liar, a

speculating knave.

The ridicule, falsehood, and abuse heaped

upon him called forth indignant

remonstrance, even from the secular press.

“To treat a subject of such overwhelming

majesty and fearful consequences,” with

lightness and ribaldry was declared by

worldly men to be “not merely to sport with

the feelings of its propagators and

advocates,” but “to make a jest of the day of

judgment, to scoff at the Deity Himself, and

contemn the terrors of His judgment bar.”—

Bliss, page 183.

The instigator of all evil sought not only to

counteract the effect of the advent message,

but to destroy the messenger himself. Miller

made a practical application of Scripture