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title: 'Samuel Miller: “The Earth Filled With the Glory of the Lord”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-02-27
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-samuel-miller-the-earth-filled-with-the-glory-of-the-lord
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# Samuel Miller: “The Earth Filled With the Glory of the Lord”

“Now, when the Gospel, which proclaims this plan of mercy, shall be preached and received throughout the world; when every kindred, and people, and nation, and tongue, shall not only be instructed in its sublime doctrines, but also brought under its benign and sanctifying power; then, with emphatic propriety, may it be said that ‘the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord.’

As the highest glory, of which an individual creature is capable, is to bear the image of his Maker; so the highest glory of which our world at large is capable, is to be filled with the holy and benevolent spirit of Him *who is the brightness of the Father*'*s glory, and the express image of his person*; — is to have the knowledge and love of the Saviour reigning over all the population of our globe, *from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same*.” — [**Samuel Miller**](/authors/samuel-miller), *The Earth Filled With the Glory of the Lord* (1835), p. 6