The second of the two developments undermining faith in the future was the focus of some of the Millennium Summit’s most anguished debates.
Despite the historic importance of the meetings and the fact that the greater portion of humanity’s political, civil and religious leadership took part, the Millennium Summit made little impression on the public mind in most countries.
Here, unfortunately, we are at once involved in a controversy in which centuries are unconsidered trifles, and a millennium is no more than a respectable, but by no means formidable, quantity.
Swedish hammers of stone dating back to the third pre-Christian millennium and flint daggers have been found in Finland, and earthenware characteristic of Neolithic Scandinavia also turns up on the Baltic coast of Russia.
Amber beads have been found not only in Swiss pile-dwellings[7] but also in Mycenæan graves of the second millennium B.
But had Tone got the upper hand, with his fanaticism and a savage peasantry thirsting for Protestant and English blood at his back, the political millennium in Ireland, as in France, would have opened with a reign of terror.
The conference sat five times, and all through the proceedings the nationalist representatives were rubbing their hands with glee, for they thought the millenniumhad come.
In the thirty-four years that have since elapsed, the millennium has certainly not come in Italy, nor is everything better than it was before.
Two hills in Central Italy and a swamp between them provided the theatre of perhaps the greatestmillennium in human history.
The doctrine of themillennium and the second advent of Christ Jesus, has been a very important one in the Christian church.
The celebrated theologian, Johann Albrecht Bengel, who, in the eighteenth century, revived an earnest interest in the subject amongst orthodox Protestants, asserted from a study of the prophecies that the millennium would begin in 1836.
The ancient Persians believed that in the last days, there would be a millennium on earth, when the religion of Zoroaster would be accepted by all mankind.
Their peculiar tenet was that the millennium had come, and that they were the saints who were to inherit the earth.
There are real correspondences between its expected millennium and the Christian millennium.
Assyriologists regard this as being a millennium too early.
Numerous inscriptions, which may be regarded as dating, in their origin, from about the middle of the third millennium before Christ, speak of these supernatural beings, and also of others similar.
During the third millennium before Christ Semites, bearing Semitic names, and called Amorites, appear, and probably formed the last considerable stratum of tribes of that race which entered the land.
This legend is therefore the most important document bearing upon the beliefs of the Babylonians from the end of the third millennium B.
The religious world has hardly learned to look for its millennium in the horsecars.
The Millennium isn't so near us as that, by a great deal.
Thus the age of Sumerian civilization can be traced in Babylonia back to about the middle of the fourth millennium B.
From the form of the characters inscribed upon it, it does not appear to date from an earlier period than the first half of the second millennium B.
Illustration: Early Babylonian plan of the temple of Enlil at Nippur and its enclosure, drawn upon a clay tablet dating from the first half of the second millennium B.
Jacobina now declared it the duty of believers to prepare for the bliss of the millennium by rooting out all the godless.
Its absolute perfection will be attained in the millennium introduced by the approaching Parousia and the descent of the heavenly Jerusalem at Pepuza (Rev.
The persecutions under Elizabeth and the Stuarts had awakened a longing for the return of the Lord, and the irresistible advance of Cromwell’s army, composed mostly of Independents, made it appear as if the millennium was close at hand.
Revelation he expected the millennium to begin in A.
Who discoursed on the subject with signal eclat, And, each day of his life, sat expecting to see A Millennium break out in the town of Armagh!
The Dyckman millions, furthermore, would bring the millenniumat once to the father and mother.
If only divorce and remarriage were ended, the millennium of our fathers would return.
The bulk of their finest fairy-tales were brought by Buddhist monks, in the course of the first millennium A.
There was no trace of any high civilization in the third millennium B.
Thus, to sum up, we may say that, quite roughly, in the middle of the third millennium we meet in the north and west of present-day China with a number of herdsmen cultures.
We have some reasons to believe that the first Indo-European-speaking groups arrived in the Far East in the middle of the second millennium B.
It enjoys the unique distinction of having lived more than a millennium and a half in a heathen land, for a thousand years of which it was entirely surrounded by a non-Christian people.
The first great Semitic invasion took place probably about the beginning of the fourth millennium B.
This inscrutable word of power from the source of all power is beginning to supply the human race with an inexhaustible force that will revolutionize the earth and link all nations together as one family in a millennium of peace and good will.
With the divine powers of mind and electricity working for man the millennium of a long life and happiness will soon arrive.
Somewhat later, in the middle of the second millennium B.
In Egypt it is found in the oldest pyramid-graves, and in the third millennium B.
Be the exact dates what they may, we find the Egyptian of the fifth millennium B.
Bearing this distinction still in mind, and recalling that the historical period, which is to be the field of our observation throughout the rest of our studies, extends for Egypt well back into the fifth millennium B.
First of all and mother of all, was the series of Revivals under Edwards, Nettleton and Finney, in every paroxysm of which the Millennium seemed to be at the door.
Then came Perfectionism, rapturously affirming that the Millennium had already begun.
But so long as it's nobody but Goshorn, I'm goin' to stay and litigate the question till the Millerite millennium comes.
There could be neither heaven nor millennium for one of them without the other!
With the world organized into families of such republics, the advent of the millennium could be predicted, and the advancement of the race to the point of perfection would be insured.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "millennium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
