On the basis of
detailed Bible study William Miller predicted the second advent for 1843-4.
"In the year 1818,
as a result of his study of the prophecies of Daniel 8 and 9, he came to the
conclusion that Christ would come some time in the year 1843 or 1844. He
hesitated until 1831 before he began to announce his findings. From his
first public service we may mark the beginnings of the Advent movement in
North America. In the months and years that followed, roughly 100,000
persons came to believe in the imminence of Christ’s second coming.
Following
the great disappointment of 1844, Miller lived for several years. He fell
asleep in Christ in 1849. A small chapel stands near his home in Low
Hampton, New York, built by Miller before he died. In spite of his
misunderstanding of the event that was to transpire in 1844, God used him to
awaken the world to the nearness of the end and to prepare sinners for the
time of judgment."
http://www.aplib.org/Index.html
http://www.aplib.org/CDRom.htm
See further
the Online "Lest We
Forget" (Vol. 1, No. 2 ) featuring William Miller in
the URL ( which is cited above)
http://www.aplib.org/Gallery.htm
. Note especially the CDRom Words of the Pioneers, ( 2nd
Ed.), a virtual library of 33,000 pages of proto or early `Second Day
Adventist' material including 1,122 digitized pages from William
Miller. The book `The Great Second Advent Movement', is an important
eyewitness history of the SDA Church's beginning.
