A Great Doctrine Revived by William Miller

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2

"The doctrine of the resurrection was almost obliterated from the pulpit theology of the age. 

Yes, the great doctrine, on which rests the whole Christian fabric, was well-nigh abandoned to the enemy. 

How seldom was it heard from the pulpit, that, 

---as truly as the body of Christ was raised from the grave by the power of God, 

---so surely all that are in the graves will come forth; they that have done good, at Christ's coming, 

---to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, 

---at the end of the one thousand years, to the resurrection of damnation.

The idea that God had promised, and would most certainly perform that promise, to give the earth to the meek, and that they shall inherit it forever, and reign on earth with Christ, was hardly credible with the great body of the church, until William Miller lifted up his voice and wielded his pen in defense of these thrilling and glorious truths." Joshua Himes