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MILLEPEDE 



MILLER 



believing in the pre-millennial advent of Christ) 

 dillcr in many minor points from our another, lint 



it. holding that tin- iiiillenniiil age will be 

 -led l>y the personal return of the Ix>rd Jesus, 



to t tahli-h u theocratic Uiiig.1-. in of universal 

 righteousness, during which lime sin will remain 



irth lint IM- greatly diuiaUMd. Immediately 

 on < 'hri-t's appearing will take place, the resurrection 

 oi ill.- iii.-litf.ni~ ilf.nl and the translation of living 

 Chri-tians, who will be rewarded according to 

 their works. The judgment work of Christ will 



;> the whole millennial period. The Jews, 



ieil to th-'ir own land, will repent and lie 

 converted. All the In*.!-* of Ant ichrist will be 

 de-tioyed. Sutaii liound. ami the Holy Ghost ]Hinred 

 nut. At the end of the millennial age Satan 

 released will make a last vain attempt to regain 

 1. 1- power, but he and the wicked, who now have 

 their resurrection, will lie finally judged and cast 

 into the lake of tire. The earth will lie renewed 

 by tire, and lie the scene of the everlasting kingdom 

 nf Christ over .-ill saiietilicd mankind. Attempts 

 I-, fix the date of the advent are generally dis- 

 approved. lUt that have lieen fixed for the 

 Inhuming of the millennium have lieen 1785 by 

 Stilling. IS.W by ISengel. IsU by Miller in America, 

 J800, 1807, and" 1868 by Dr Camming, and 1890 by 

 the Mormon Clmreh. Some advetitists tench the 

 doctrine of AiMH-ata.stn.sis (i|.v. ), others the final 

 annihilation of the impt-iiitent. See ADVKNTISTS 



M>). and HKI.I.. 



Many of the greatest modern German theologians 

 have lit-en moie or le pronouncedly pre millen- 

 nialists; such as Hot he, llofmann, Nitzsch, Ebrard, 

 Imge. Deliu-ch. Chri-tlicli, Lnthanlt, as also 

 en. and (iodet. The Free Church 

 of Italy and the Plymouth Brethren collectively 

 hold these view.-. Toe Irvingites exjiect the speedy 

 appearance of Christ. 1're-millennial views appear 

 in the works tif many eminent Anglicans such 

 \>. -hlii-hop Trench, Bishops Ellicott and l;\ I--, 

 ( ...nous l-'ifinantle and Hoare, Dean Alford. 



An g-t I'ifsliyteiians Dr.lohn Ciiiiitning and Dr 



Horatiiis Itonar are eonspicuoiis names. Great 

 conferences of pre millennialiste were held in 

 London and New York in 1878. 



See Corrodi, GetthMte dei ChUiamta (1781 ; 2<i ed. 



1714 1; J. P. Ln g e, f>at Land der Hrrrlichkeit 



<!-:); Volck, Drr Chiliatmiu (18G9); Bickersteth, 



' of the Chunk (1S53); Honar, Comitvi of the 



'torn of the Lord Jetui (1849), and J'rvphetiral 



I mark* (1859); Cummin;;. Ajnealyptic Stetcket 



llMlt); E. U. Klli-.tt. Hunt A,*xalyi*ifa! (5tli ed. 



I . : 8ei, The Lnii Time* ( 7th cd. 1'hila. 17H ) ; 



tip- I'n-millruninl Ktayn / tin I'm/Art ir Cuiifrrence 



i' lucago, 1870); and, m-uin-t MilU-narUniam, David 



Brown, Ckriifi Sttontt > -',. ; Is4i>). 



II ill<-|x-<l< % . a popular name for the meml>crs of 



one of the onh-rs of M\ rinpiHls. of which .lulus u a 

 giKMlt\pe. See Cr.MII'I.HK, M V l:l> i|-( in.\. 



Millrporr. SeeCiillM.. 



Miller. Ili'iMi. adistingnislKHl wlf taught geo- 



I and journalist, :i- I,.. in t Cnimarty. in the 



north of Scotland. (.-tol>r Id, IMrJ. 'lie \MIS 



descended from a family of sailor*, and lost hi- 



father by a -tonn at wa when he was only 



> of agp. In conx-<|\i,-ii.-.. of thi- mi- 



fortune he n- brought up chiclly under the care 



of two of his mother- uncli-s. one of whom ('Uncle 



Snmlv') imbued him with a tn-tefor natural history. 



and tln> other ( I'nclo .laimi. ' I for traditional I 



}Ie aci|iiinsl a giMMl kaowUon of English (the 

 only langnagi- he knew) nt the Cromarty grammar- 

 whool. IH-IOII- In- eleventh year he had read the 

 .1 romaiires of child |HKH|, )M--iileM other works 

 ol higher literary pretensions. As he grew older 

 he In-calm- extremely fond of the great Englinh 

 foeta and prose- writers. From his seventeenth to 



hi- thirty fourth year he worked as a common 

 si. .in- 111:1-011, devoting the enforced leisure of the 

 winter months to writing and reading, to inde- 

 pt-ndeiit researches in naturul hi-toi\. and to the 

 extension of his literary knowledge. In IvJI -.'."> 

 he worked at Niddrie, near Edinburgh. In )*'29 

 he gaineil the friendship of Uobert ( 'anuthera, exlitor 

 of the In- 'rifr, and pnblisliei! a volume 



entitled I'm inn u-ritti n in tin- Luxiiri Iliitirs of a 

 Jiitiriiri/iiiiiii MIIXIIM (1K21)), which 'a.s folh.wed 

 b> Srf)n;t mill I.rijfmlx (;/ tlif .\uii/i nj HmUlllnl 

 (1833). Hi- attention was noon ilrawn to the 

 ecclesiastical controversies which were agitating 

 Scotland, and hi- famous l.ill'i- tu l.^nl lirniii/iiiiiit 

 on the ' Atu-hterarder Case,' brought him promi- 

 nently into notice. In 1834-39 he iu-te<l as liank- 

 acconntant ; in 1SH!) he was invited to Edinburgh 

 bv Dr Catidlish and Robert Paul, who hat) read 

 his famous letter, as editor of the }\'itm:t.i, a news- 

 paper started in the interest of the Non-intru- 

 sion party in the Church of Scotland ; ami in IslU 

 he published in its columns a series of geological 

 articles, which were afterwards collected under the 

 title of Tlic Olil Jietl Sniii/xtiiHi-. i>r A i ir H'//..v in nn 

 Old Fichl ( 1S41 ). These articles were very remark- 

 able, from both a scientific ami a literary point 

 of view. They contained a minute account of the 

 author's discovery of fossils in a formation believed, 

 until then, to IK? destitute of them, and were written 

 in a style which was a harmonious combination of 

 Itraurtb, beauty, and ]K>lish. At the meeting of 

 the Jiritish Association in the same year (1840) 

 he was warmly praised by Murchi-oii, Agassi/, and 

 Bncklaml. Agassi/ projiosed that one of the fossils 

 should lie named I'linrlitlii/a Mil/in. and said that 

 ' be would give his left hand to ]>o8se.-s such ]>owers 

 of description as this man.' Millei "* editorial labours 

 during the heat of the Disruption struggle were 

 immense, and educated the people for the climax 

 in 1843. He used the term 'Free Church' I" 

 the Disruption. In 1847 he hod to vindicate his 

 position as editor in a private pamphlet against 

 clerical interference, and may lie said to have come 

 off triumphant. Hut, after years of hard, earne-t, 

 fagging toil, his brain gave way, and, in a moment 

 of aberration, he shot himself at 1'ortobello. near 

 Edinburgh, on the night of the 23d December 

 18oO. Miller contributed several tales to the 

 series known as Wilson's Titlrx nf ttif /.'" 



IVi'i), and was also a contributor to ( '/m/iihcrt't 

 .Iniii-inil. He was not a ready writer: Chalmers 

 said of him that when he did go oil' he was a 

 great gun, but be required a deal of lime to load. 

 Vet he coiitiibiited at least a thousand niticlc- to 

 the H'I'/HC.V.V ; 1'i-ter l!a\ne terms them 'complfte 

 journali-tic ess:i>>. symmetrical in plan, finished 

 in execution, ami of sustained and splendid ability.' 

 Miller's works. U-sides those alieady mentioned, 

 ate i'irsl liii/irestioiu of J-'ii'//iiin/ inn/ its !' 

 (1847), the record of a join IK y to Ijigland in 1- 

 hi'it/irnits of the I'l-Kitiir, /' tin- A.^ln' 

 i if Xtrninucxii, in which he combated the evolu- 

 tion theory ( 1850) ; My ScJioola mul .sv-A/ii 



I In- Stury of my Kilin-ntiini (1854); and 

 mini i/ nt tin /,'<-/ ,v ( IS'iT I, an attempt to leconcile 

 the cosmogony of (icm-is with tlie geology of 

 nature, by the hvpothe-i- that the days mentioned 

 in tin- lirst chapter of (n-m-sis d.i not represent the 

 actual duration of the sm-i c--i\c periods of creation, 

 but only the time occupied by Cod in unrolling a 

 panoramic vision of these ]>criods In-fore the ye8 

 of Moses. To the aliovc list wiw afterwards added 

 the following |>osthumous volumes ,- Hie 



Ix-ing geological investigations 

 among the islands of Scotland ; .S77<7i linul; uf 

 /'iifiH/nr Urn/nifi/. with preface bv Mis Miller 

 I) | HtadStip of Hirtst, 'witli prefiu-e by 

 iiaync ( 1861 }; Ettuyi, Historical and liioyrajihicai 



