The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27

all and many more wore long since for
gotten. But tbs period from $50 TO 1854
was to he marked before lie Close by many
excellent things. Emerson continued.
Poe came along with The Black Cat.
The GOld Bug The Mystery Of Marie
Roget -Annabel Lee The Raven and
The Bella and passed with little mo-
tics ~ his grave Hawthorne and Lowell
gave with suli hands From Cooper
came tho bsst of his novels and muOh
besides I.Ongfsllow was bOuntitul;
Prescott published two morn histories.
ParkInsn appeared.
whsa : y B Morse was establishing
has telegraph some difsiculty was expert
enced in making IL work under water.
So late ~ iste a telegraph line from Phila-
delphia stopped az Jersey City and mes
saEe~ were brought over TO New York
On the ferrybOat. One night in October
IsS2. . tentative cable was laid here from
Castle Garden to Governors Island.
There was to u q public exhibition Of
the wonder at noon the NEXT day. Tn
happily . little before the arrival % that
hour Ute of seven vessels that had anchored
just wbsre the cable layspulled up anchor.
and incidentally pulled up the cable.
PuzAl-Si by he strange thing they had
caught. the sailors after soHsS study cut
il ia two and sailed away. Two months
later in Congress. when the granting Of
an appropriation for Morse was under
discussion. a member facetiously sug-
Rested that MillsTism should be included
in the benefit In making that suggestion
the member touched upon . remarkable
delIIsion which was raging si that time
in the Eastern and Middle States.
william Miller the founder Of the Mil
leriis sect. Was born in Pittsheld. Mass
ia I7s2. When he grow up he became an
atheist. lie was also a Captain Of volun-
teers in the War u 1872 After the war
ne joined tho Baptist Church. He studied
the Bible with much carne-tns~s. For a
time he ~As puzzled ny the prophecies
hut presently these became entirely clear
20 him. lie went about preaching the
imninsnce Of the Day % .IudGmen and
% the cleansinG Of the earth by IRE. The
two thousand three hundrsd days u Dan
iel's vision Of the ram. the he goat and the
little horn were. according 20 Miller. tho
same number Of years. From this he
made ont tho time 81 the fiery baptism
with great exactness. AZ the end OF len
years after Miller began 90 preach he had
a great following In Ist3 il vas well un-
sieTstood that the world was to ne burned
on April -. IssS. In New York In August.
isk2. a tent vas ses zap that measured l %
Zee, in diameter and was supported by q
pole forty feet high. Three thousand
persons at in this tent and heard What
was going Ia happen. doubtless with
confidence a. regarded their own case.
hut still presumably with some natural
alarm All about there were such tents.
At Newark there Was one with six en-
frances AZ Hartford and in the country
about people began Ia dispose of their
property and otherwise ssttie their worldly
anair-. A. New Haven when . pAper
mill tpok fire on winter night and a
binding snow storm reflected the hameN
AIillerite- rushed from their houses IN the
belief that the sDd had come
Ry March the teachings Of Miller we're
having serious results. Suicides became
common and scores Of people were made
crazy Al Augusta four lunatiCs from
one town were brought 10 tho State hos
Isrit.. was m such hast" to SEQ the coming
81 the Lord that. clad in his ascension
robes he climbed tree. attempted to ~
into heaven, fell 10 earth and broke his
neck Eleven parsons driven insane 10y
attendance IN Millerits meetings were
10 the Worcester Hospital. In
Massachusetts farmer cut his wifes
throat b.rauss abe would not Ia converted
TO NIill.rism. and a mother poisoned her
self and all heT children 4 New BEDFORD
editor describes a well 10 10 mechanic on
his knees in the ~noE with a Millerite
pamphlet in each hand praying and
IN a pIteous manner More
81 the kind - related here All about. in
Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Ohio. Mary
land Kentucky. the-e were people who
could not bear the strain ~ the Millerian
idea
The appointed day arrived Great
crowds. says Mr. McNastsr. abandoned
thsir houses. left the cities and towns.
and in their ascension robes betook them
selves 60 the fields in the full expectation
that the Saviour would come with His
angels to receive them and s~t the world
afire' BY the first Of the month the
number Of insane MilIerites in the Worc~~-
ter asylum had come 10 be fifteen
BY the I'D there may have been more
Of than. Whatever the number. they
and all the others similarly Afflicted and
restrained IN many places all over tho Land
could not Of course join their brethren
in those open spaces where q good visw
Of the awful spectacle seemed tn be
assured. IL did not matter. The 23d Of
April dAwned and advanced and terrni-
mated quite in the familiar manner Of
the days The only disturbance was
such ~ the MilIeritea themselves fur
niahed Those tenacious people were not
confoundsd. new date. October -.
was set for the catAclysm. The prspara-
tons for Il went m. The great MilIerite
Tabernacle in Boston was dedicated
in May. Throughout the summer In
tents and halls and fields people prayed
and shouted and groansd and funE thssn-
selves upon the ground. In New York
a abOpkseper gave notice that the public
k.l, eh@r1.aalw@m In hia .6~,rh -