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 MILLAU MILLENNIUM 549 lished " Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petrsea, and the Holy Land." On his return he settled again at West Bloomfield, made frequent lec- turing tours, and from 1845 to 1867 was pro- fessor of Biblical antiquities and sacred geog- raphy in the Meadville theological seminary. His life has been written by his son, the Kev. D. E. Millard (1874). MILLAU, Milland, or Milhau, a town of Lan- guedoc, France, in the department of Aveyron, on the Tarn, 85 m. N. E. of Toulouse ; pop. in 1866, 13,663. It has a communal college and a chamber of commerce. The chief manufac- tures are woollen cloth, leather, gloves, and silk twist. A brisk trade is carried on in tim- ber, cattle, wool, wine, and other agricultural products. In the religious wars of France the town became famous as one of the strongholds of the Huguenots, and in 1629 its ancient castle and the walls were demolished by Louis* XIII. MILLEDGE, John, an American soldier and statesman, born in Savannah, Ga., in 1757, died at the Sandhills, near Augusta, Feb. 9, 1818. He was one of the party which cap- tured Gov. Wright (June 17, 1775), the first bold revolutionary act performed in Geor- gia. He was at the unsuccessful siege of Sa- vannah under the count D'Estaing and Gen. Lincoln, and also at the siege of Augusta. In 1780 he was appointed attorney general, and he served frequently in the state legislature. In 1802 he was elected governor of Georgia, and served two terms. He was a representa- tive in congress from 1792 to 1802, except one term, and United States senator from 1806 to 1809. He was the principal founder of the university of Georgia. MILLEDGEVILLE, a town and the county seat of Baldwin co., Georgia, and formerly capital of the state, on the W. bank of the Oconee river, at the intersection of the Macon and Augusta and the Milledgeville and Eatonton railroads, 85 m. S. E. of Atlanta, and 145 m. W. N. W. of Savannah ; pop. in 1870, 2,750, of whom 1,547 were colored. It is surrounded by a beautiful and fertile cotton region, and contains several handsome residences. The governor's mansion and the state house are in good preservation, and are still the property of the state. Two weekly newspapers are pub- lished. It is the seat of the state lunatic asylum and of the state penitentiary. Milledgeville was entered by the forces of Gen. Sherman on Nov. 23, 1864, who burned the magazines, penitentiary, arsenals, depot buildings, bridges, and about 1,700 bales of cotton. The capital was removed to Atlanta in 1868. MILLEDOLER, Philip, an American clergy- man, born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1775, died on Staten Island, Sept. 23, 1852. His father, a Swiss, came to America about 1751. The son graduated at Columbia college in 1793, studied theology, and in 1795 became pastor of the German Reformed church in Nassau street, New York, where he preached both in German and English, In May, 1800, he became one of the pastors of the collegiate Dutch Reformed church in New York, but soon after accepted the pastorate of the Pine street Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. In 1801 he was elected secretary of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church. In 1805 he accepted a call from the then collegiate Pres- byterian churches in New York, with special reference to the church in Rutgers street, where he was installed on Nov. 19. In 1813 he be- came pastor of the collegiate Dutch church in New York. In 1825 he was appointed pro- fessor of didactic and polemic theology in the seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., and at the same time president of Rutgers college, both which offices he retained till 1835. His last residence was in New York. He published many sermons and addresses, and a "Disser- tation on Incestuous Marriages" (1843). MILLE LACS, an E. central county of Minne- sota, drained by Rum river, and containing the S. portion of Lake Mille Lacs ; area, 684 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,109. The surface consists of rolling prairies, with timbered bottom lands along, the streams. The chief productions in 1870 were 7,920 bushels of wheat, 9,572 of Indian corn, 9,131 of oats, 5,163 of potatoes, 22,667 Ibs. of butter, and 1,917 tons of hay. Value of live stock, $33,869. There were 2 saw mills and 1 flour mill. Capital, Princeton. MILLENNIUM (Lat.mille, 1,000, and annus, a year), a period of 1,000 years. In theology this term generally designates the doctrine of a return of Jesus Christ in person before the end of the world, of a first or particular resur- rection of the just, who are to reign with Christ on earth, and of the destruction of Antichrist. Those who hold such views are called mille- narians or chiliasts (Gr. x^ 1 ^, a thousand). It is admitted on all sides that millenarian views were, if not general, at least very common in the ancient church. The belief was generally founded on Ps. xc. 4 and 2 Pet. iii. 8, accord- ing to which a thousand years are before the Lord as one day, compared with the account of the creation as given by Moses, the six days of creation being taken as designating 6,000 years of toil, and the subsequent sabbath 1,000 years of rest and happiness. Rev. xx. 1-6 is especially quoted by millenarians in support of their views. Millenarianism prevailed chiefly among the Jewish Christians, who retained after their conversion the hope of the Jewish nation that they would rule over all other na- tions under a royal Messiah. The Ebionites, the Nazareans, and the Cerinthians all strongly advocated it ; and Montanus and his followers regarded it as a fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion. The early fathers of the church also declared themselves generally in favor of the doctrine ; Papias, Justin, Irenaeus, and Tertullian all clearly teach it ; and Papias appealed in support of his view to apostolic traditions. The epistles of Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch, and the epistle to Diognetus, are silent about it. Justin, though