Saturday, October 26, 1844
The Property of Millerites - Disappointed.- In some places, says the Baltimore Clipper, the followers of Miller have sold property at a nominal price, which will probably cause litigation hereafter, as the question will no doubt arise, whether such persons were, at the time of conveying the property, in a condition of mind to make a valid deed. We doubt whether the courts will hold deeds to be legal where it is shown that they been executed in a state of mental delusion. It is certain that no honest man would take advantage of such delusion to obtain property at less than its value.DAAR October 1844, page 1.37
The Baltimore American has the following - “We are informed that nearly all the persons who have visited this city as preachers of the Millerite doctrine, contending that the world will be destroyed Wednesday the 23rd inst, took their departure yesterday morning. The amount of money gathered from their disciples must have ben considerable, inasmuch as about seven hundred dollars were paid for the rent of one room in which the meetings were held.”DAAR October 1844, page 1.38
Lamentable - Moses Clark of Landaff, (says the New Hampshire Patriot), committed suicide by drowning about a week since. A man of good sense and well informed, he yet fell into the miserable delusion of Millerism, and reason was ousted from her throne. He was highly respected in his town, and so well esteemed in Grafton County as to have been elected Chairman of The Board of Commissioners. He was a representative from Landaff to the Legislature, for the two years previous to the present year, and was a very useful, careful, and well informed member.DAAR October 1844, page 1.39
On Thursday morning two small children were found in the Millerite encampment near Philadelphia, perfectly stiff, cold and dead. Many grown persons were suffering severely, and many females were forced away with the object of saving their lives!DAAR October 1844, page 1.40
“Brother Himes” - The Boston Post says - A correspondent has furnished us with some facts illustrating the selfishness of the leaders of the second adventists. The wife of an aged colored man has given $2,000 to the cause, and left her family poor. A grocer on Pleasant Street disposed of about $500 in the same way, and a carpenter on the Fremont Road gave a like amount - all he had. Himes, it is said, has disposed of considerable quantities of old jewelry and silver - “contributions” - at different stores in the city where they deal in such articles. Several women who kept boarding houses have been induced to dismiss their former lodgers and take in second adventists, free of cost, and have thereby greatly embarrassed, if not completely ruined themselves, in a pecuniary point of view. It is said that Himes preached somewhere in the city last Sunday; but he and his followers are very secret about their places of meeting. The public indignation is so much excited against Himes that we think it would not be prudent for him to give a general notice of his movements.DAAR October 1844, page 1.41