MILLERITE-ADVENTIST
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct
provenance
edition · William Miller, Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843 (Boston: Joshua V. Himes, 1842); University of Connecticut copy; The Western Midnight Cry (Cincinnati: J. V. Himes), vols. 2–3, 1843–44; Harvard University copy; The True Midnight Cry (Haverhill, Mass.: S. S. Snow), vol. 1, no. 1, 22 August 1844 — the paper that set the day, 22 October 1844; Joseph Bates, The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning, to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City (New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1847), second edition; Project Gutenberg eBook #27266; Ellen G. White, A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: James White, 1851)
license · payload: Public domain: every item was published in the United States between 1842 and 1851. Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes; Bates's Seventh Day Sabbath as Project Gutenberg eBook #27266, a public-domain text, seated with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · The third tradition of 1844: the Millerites expected the return of Christ on 22 October 1844, and the Great Disappointment of that day divided them; the Sabbatarian Adventists, from whom the Seventh-day Adventist Church formed, are one of the bodies that came out of it.