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Fraulein said only an hour altogether and it's church tonight." "We'll get back, Millenium mine never fear." As they began to retrace their steps Clara softly sang the last line of the song, the highest note ringing, faint and clear, away into the wood. "Ho-lah!" A mighty answering shout rang through the wood. It was like a word of command. "Oh, come along home; Clara, what are you dreaming of?"
"She wants to make everybody happy bring about a general millenium, you know." "She pays dearly enough for her fancies," said Mrs. Saumarez, in a hard voice. Then, after a little, she cried, suddenly: "Oh, Billy, Billy, it shames me to think of how we lie to her, and toady to her, and lead her on from one mad scheme to another! all for the sake of the money we can pilfer incidentally!
The girl was pitiably anxious to be of some use in the world. So at Selwoode they gossiped of great causes and furthered the millenium. And above them the Eagle brooded in silence. And Billy?
Not from national archives, or state papers, when diplomacy was so rare, when so large a proportion of its simple transactions was conducted by personal intercourse, and after the destruction wrought amongst its slender chancery of written memorials by the revolution of one entire millenium.
A strange look came over his honest black face, and he exclaimed: "What all am dat, Massa Tom? Yo'ah gwine t' bring de new millenium heah? Dat's de end of de world, ain't it-dat millenium? Golly! Dish yeah coon neber 'spected t' lib t' see dat. De millenium! Oh mah landy!" "No, Rad!" laughed Tom.
In fact, it is seen in all the various ways in which the higher consciousness finds expression. One of the characteristic signs of this awakening, the Millenium Dawn, as it has been named, lies in a very general optimism shining through the mists of doubt and unrest and inexpressible desire, which accompany the new birth in consciousness.
His tempest-tossed spirit could only find rest by doing violence to the dogma, then universally accepted and not quite extinct even in our own days, that the authority of the Bible that "Divine Library" collectively taken, belongs to each and every sentence of the Bible taken for and by itself, and that, in Coleridge's words, "detached sentences from books composed at the distance of centuries, nay, sometimes at a millenium from each other, under different dispensations and for different objects," are to be brought together "into logical dependency."
A lady who had been an invalid for sixteen years was cured so that in a week she was able to ride a mile and a half to the lectures. "All these things I saw with my own eyes, and if the evidence had not been enough in my own case, there were all these proofs. And the teaching! Oh, it is beautiful. If we could only live up to that the millenium would surely be here."
In 1841 many of the Christian public probably felt a slight glow of satisfaction at starting on a book that brought the then certain millenium, of a Christian and English cast, definitely nearer.
He was therefore disposed to attach to his father's words some mystical sense, or to suppose that he imagined himself in possession of a secret, by means of which he could command the wealth he scorned. Of course the young man considered such anticipations as visionary as the immediate coming of that millenium for which the longing eyes of the enthusiast daily looked forth.
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