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The European Union in Prophecy
Reformers, tended rather to convince the understanding and arouse the conscience
than merely to excite the emotions.
In 1833 Miller received a license to preach, from the Baptist Church, of which
he was a member. A large number of the ministers of his denomination also approved
his work, and it was with their formal sanction that he continued his labors. He
traveled and preached unceasingly, though his personal labors were confined
principally to the New England and Middle States. For several years his expenses
were met wholly from his own private purse, and he never afterward received enough
to meet the expense of travel to the places where he was invited. Thus his public labors,
so far from being a pecuniary benefit, were a heavy tax upon his property, which
gradually diminished during this period of his life. He was the father of a large family,
but as they were all frugal and industrious, his farm sufficed for their maintenance
as well as his own.
In 1833, two years after Miller began to present in public the evidences of
Christ's soon coming, the last of the signs appeared which were promised by the
Saviour as tokens of His second advent. Said Jesus: "The stars shall fall from heaven."
Matthew 24:29. And John in the Revelation declared, as he beheld in vision the scenes
that should herald the day of God: "The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a
fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." Revelation
6:13. This prophecy received a striking and impressive fulfillment in the great
meteoric shower of November 13, 1833. That was the most extensive and wonderful
display of falling stars which has ever been recorded; "the whole firmame