SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST INFLUENCE UPON MILLERITES
SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST INFLUENCE UPON MILLERITES

Summary/Abstract: Before the October Disappointment in 1844 an interest in the seventh-day Sabbath had originated among Millerites. Some of them began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath instead of the first day. By that time, Seventh Day Baptists had been keeping the seventh-day Sabbath for a couple of centuries. During much of that long period of time Seventh Day Baptists had been quite passive in sharing the Sabbath with other Christians. By the beginning of the 1840s, however, they determined to take a more aggressive approach to promoting their understanding of the Sabbath. In this work we will discuss Seventh Day Baptist influence upon Millerites. The basic question addressed in this paper is: “To what extent did Seventh Day Baptists influence Millerites in terms of Sabbath?” The purpose of this work is to organize chronologically information about the influence of the Seventh Day Baptist Sabbath upon Millerites during 1840s. In order to accomplish the main purpose of this paper it will be necessary to chronologically reconstruct and analyze the historical development of the influence of Seventh Day Baptist upon Millerites. Millerites were people who followed William Miller who was one of the more remarkable and controversial Christian revivalist in the first half of the 19th century. He believed that the Second Coming of Jesus would be on October 22nd, 1844. About 200.000 people accepted his view with more than a million brought under his influence.

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