You are looking for the millennium, but not doing your part toward hastening its general advent.

And now, Mr.Markland, if what I have said be true, can you wonder at being the restless, dissatisfied man you represent yourself to be ?" "If your premises be sound, your conclusions are true enough," answered Markland, with some coldness and abstraction of manner.

The doctrine was neither flattering to his reason, nor agreeable to his feelings.

He was too confirmed a lover of himself to receive willingly teaching like this.

A type of the mass around him, he was content to look down the dim future for signs of the approaching millennium, instead of into his own heart.