“‘I am highly gratified with your present position; if you had gone to criticising words in order to find another time, yet future, men would not have thought you honest in your views, would have lost all confidence in you, and the good you have done would have been neutralized, had you shifted or changed your ground.
“‘You have good, honest and sure ground yet to stand upon; for Christ says, “So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know that he is near, even at the door.” Now we have lived to see all the signs fulfilled, the time accomplished. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
“‘This is the position I have now to take, and what more work I have to do, will be done in this manner. I will,
“‘1. Prove by Scripture and History that TIME is fulfilled.
“‘2. Show the SIGNS all completed.
“‘3. The duty of WATCHING, for we know not what hour the Lord may come. And if God has anything more for me to do in his vineyard, he will give me strength, open the door, and enable me to do whatever may be his will, for his glory and the best good for man.
“‘To him I leave the event, for him I watch and pray, saying, “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
“‘William Miller.’
“On the 2d of May he wrote as follows:—