A Word to the Reader 7 PART I: Moving Toward the Year of the End Chapter 1: Millennial Passion 13 Revival of the Study of Prophecy Millerism and the Second Great Awakening Millennial Conflict Chapter 2: The Making of a Millennialist: William Miller’s Early Years 21 Not Always a Rebel An Enthusiastic Bible Student The Deistic Years and the War of 1812 To Preach or Not to Preach Back to Christianity Chapter 3: Miller’s Mission to the World 38 A Profile of Miller the Man A Profile of Miller’s Results A Profile of Miller’s Message Chapter 4: Enter Joshua V. Himes: Mission Organizer 56 Meet J. V. Himes Organizational Strategist Himes Meets Miller Himes Under Criticism “The Napoleon of the Press” Chapter 5: More Millennial Missionaries 78 Josiah Litch Joins the Adventist Mission Additional Millerite Leaders The Millerite Camp Meetings Black and Female Lecturers The Zealous Charles Fitch PART II: The Year of the End Chapter 6: Entering the Year of the End 105 Progressively Focusing on the Time Non-Millerite Responses to the Arrival of the Year A Year of Expectancy and Evangelism Chapter 7: Coming Out of Babylon 119 “Boundary Crisis” Toward Millerite Separatism Growing Resistance to Millerism “Babylon Has Fallen” Chapter 8: The Spring Disappointment 134 A “Final” Evangelistic Thrust But Christ Did Not Come Chapter 9: The Tarrying Time 141 Persevering in “the Work” Fanaticism in the Ranks Chapter 10: The “True Midnight Cry” 159 A New Message “Real” and “Perceived” Fanaticism in the Seventh Month New Leaders Older Leaders Join the Seventh-Month Movement Moving Toward October 22 Chapter 11: The October Disappointment 184 Immediate Reactions The Shut Door and the Forming of the Battle Line A Leadership in Turmoil The Scattering Time PART III: Moving Away From the Year of the End Chapter 12: Adventism’s Radical Fringe 209 The Rise of the Spiritualizes The Shaker Temptation Aberrant Adventism “Who Is We? ” Chapter 13: The Albany Reaction 228 Up to Albany From Albany to Miller’s Death Albany The Albany Denominations Immediately After Albany Chapter 14: The Sabbatarian Disentanglement 251 Born in Confusion The Third Angel New Personalities The Gathering Time New Doctrines: The Answer to Confusion Chapter 15: Millerism at 170 277 The Changing Shape of Adventism And What of the Passion? The ‘Why” of Success NOTES 291 INDEX 327

A definitive and comprehensive history of Millerism that is a must read for Adventist pastors, teachers, and anyone involved in evangelism. This is a reprint of Millennial Fever and the End of the World, originally published in 1994.