THE SECOND ADVENTISTS, OR MILLERITES. To present a better idea of the local history of this peculiar religion, I shall devote some space to the rise and growth of the Second Adventists throughout the United States, giving such facts concerning their general belief which I could obtain from a dili

for "Druim Muir" in Ireland). Several thousands of these sturdy pioneers were already in the area by the time Lancaster County was founded and they formed a strong bulwark against hostile Indians, Maryland squatters, and French enemies during the wars. They were devout in their religion, active in

Protestant world" and would be of inestimable value in appraising the state of evangelical religion around the world.18 The context of Bacon's proposal was the organization of the Christian Alliance, a later component of the American and Foreign Christian Union. Bacon's articles in the New Englander as well