1. America’s Advents
Alec Ryrie

3. The voice of the people is the voice of God. The democratic party
The voice of the people is the voice of God. ... The democratic party ... has undertaken the political redemption of man, and sooner or later the great work will be accomplished.
Andrew Johnson, 1828

4. The voice of the people is the voice of God. The democratic party
The voice of the people is the voice of God. ... The democratic party ... has undertaken the political redemption of man, and sooner or later the great work will be accomplished.
... The millenial morning has dawned and ... the lion and the lamb shall lie down together.
Andrew Johnson, 1828

5. William Miller ( )

6. William Miller ( )

7. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14.

8. 457 BC
Plus 2,300 years
= 1843

9. Joshua V. Himes ( )

15. Hiram Edson, manuscript recollections of 1844
We looked for our coming Lord until the clock tolled 12 at midnight. ... Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before. … We wept, and wept, till the day dawned.
Hiram Edson, manuscript recollections of 1844

17. The Shakers

18. Hiram Edson, manuscript recollections of 1844
I mused in my own heart, saying, My advent experience had been the richest and brightest of all my christian experience. If this has proved a failure, what was the rest of my christian experience worth? Has the Bible proved a failure? Is there no God – no heaven – no golden home city – no paradise? Is all this but a cunningly devised fable?
Hiram Edson, manuscript recollections of 1844

19. Ellen White (née Harmon) (1827-1915)

23. John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), nutritionist and Seventh-day Adventist

25. Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916)

26. Miller’s original calculation
677 BC
Plus 2,520 years
= 1843

27. Russell’s 1876 revision
606 BC
Plus 2,520 years
= 1914

28. Russell’s 1876 revision
606 BC
Plus 2,520 years
= 1914
Or 1874?

30. ‘Judge’ Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1869-1942)

37. William Miller ( )

38. America’s Advents
Alec Ryrie