{ "corpus": "millerite-adventist", "seat": "EA-CORPORA-24/03", "title": "The Millerite Movement and the Disappointment of 22 October 1844: Miller's Evidence (1842), The Western Midnight Cry (1843–44), The True Midnight Cry (22 August 1844), Bates's Seventh Day Sabbath (1847) and Ellen G. White's Sketch (1851)", "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)", "language": "eng", "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." }, "fetched": "2026-10-27", "origin": { "items": [ { "source": "Internet Archive", "identifier": "evidencefromscri00mill", "url": "https://archive.org/details/evidencefromscri00mill", "files": [ "evidencefromscri00mill.pdf", "evidencefromscri00mill_djvu.txt" ] }, { "source": "Internet Archive", "identifier": "westernmidnight00unkngoog", "url": "https://archive.org/details/westernmidnight00unkngoog", "files": [ "westernmidnight00unkngoog.pdf", "westernmidnight00unkngoog_djvu.txt" ] }, { "source": "Internet Archive", "identifier": "adventist-periodicals-the-true-midnight-cry-volume-1", "url": "https://archive.org/details/adventist-periodicals-the-true-midnight-cry-volume-1", "files": [ "TRMC - The True Midnight Cry, vol. 1, no. 1.pdf", "TRMC - The True Midnight Cry, vol. 1, no. 1_djvu.txt" ] }, { "source": "Project Gutenberg", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27266/pg27266.txt" }, { "source": "Internet Archive", "identifier": "WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851", "url": "https://archive.org/details/WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851", "files": [ "WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851.pdf", "WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851_djvu.txt" ] } ], "fetched": "2026-10-27", "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw" }, "works": { "count": 5, "units": "one text layer per item, beside its scan", "list": [ { "slug": "miller-evidence-1842", "work": "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", "text": "text/miller-evidence-1842.ocr.txt", "originals": [ "original/evidencefromscri00mill/evidencefromscri00mill.pdf", "original/evidencefromscri00mill/evidencefromscri00mill_djvu.txt" ], "class": "Millerite", "lines": 14018 }, { "slug": "western-midnight-cry-1843-44", "work": "The Western Midnight Cry (Cincinnati: J. V. Himes), vols. 2–3, 1843–44; Harvard University copy", "text": "text/western-midnight-cry-1843-44.ocr.txt", "originals": [ "original/westernmidnight00unkngoog/westernmidnight00unkngoog.pdf", "original/westernmidnight00unkngoog/westernmidnight00unkngoog_djvu.txt" ], "class": "Millerite", "lines": 66555 }, { "slug": "true-midnight-cry-1844", "work": "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", "text": "text/true-midnight-cry-1844.ocr.txt", "originals": [ "original/adventist-periodicals-the-true-midnight-cry-volume-1/TRMC - The True Midnight Cry, vol. 1, no. 1.pdf", "original/adventist-periodicals-the-true-midnight-cry-volume-1/TRMC - The True Midnight Cry, vol. 1, no. 1_djvu.txt" ], "class": "The day, 1844", "lines": 624 }, { "slug": "bates-seventh-day-sabbath-1847", "work": "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", "text": "text/bates-seventh-day-sabbath-1847.txt", "originals": [ "original/gutenberg-27266/pg27266.txt" ], "class": "Sabbatarian Adventist", "lines": 3059 }, { "slug": "white-sketch-1851", "work": "Ellen G. White, A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: James White, 1851)", "text": "text/white-sketch-1851.ocr.txt", "originals": [ "original/WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851/WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851.pdf", "original/WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851/WhiteE.ASketchOfTheChristianExperienceAndViewsOfEllenG.White1851_djvu.txt" ], "class": "Sabbatarian Adventist", "lines": 3458 } ] }, "normalization": "Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/.ocr.txt); the scan under original// is the witness. Where the text layer misreads, the scan governs. Every file checked against the md5 the Archive publishes. Bates's text is the Project Gutenberg plain text as fetched.", "scope": "The movement and what it divided into: William Miller's lectures computing the end 'about the year 1843' (Boston, 1842); The Western Midnight Cry, the Millerite paper of the West (1843–44); the first number of Samuel S. Snow's The True Midnight Cry (Haverhill, 22 August 1844), which fixed the day at the tenth day of the seventh month, 22 October 1844; and two of the bodies that formed after the day passed, the Sabbatarian Adventists, in Joseph Bates's The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign (second edition, New Bedford, 1847), and Ellen G. White's first visions in her Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views (Saratoga Springs, 1851). A Word to the 'Little Flock' (1847) was found only in a facsimile with a later foreword and is not seated. The Advent Christian and other non-Sabbatarian Adventist bodies, and the Midnight Cry and Advent Herald of New York and Boston: QUEUED.", "verified_loci": [ "Miller 1842, the imprint — 'PUBLISHED BY JOSHUA V. HIMES'", "Western Midnight Cry, the running head — 'THE WESTERN MIDNIGHT CRY.'", "True Midnight Cry, 22 August 1844, the masthead — 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH; GO YE OUT TO ME HIM.'", "True Midnight Cry, the day — 'tenth day of the seventh month'", "Bates 1847, the imprint — 'NEW BEDFORD: PRESS OF BENJAMIN LINDSEY'", "White 1851, the imprint — 'PUBLISHED BY JAMES WHITE.'", "White 1851, the first vision — 'I turned to look for the Advent people in the world'" ], "loci_not_found": [], "lines_total": 87714, "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.", "spine": "Millerites and Adventists, 1844", "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 27 October 2026: \"need to seat the book of mormon but im not doing it without several diverging simultaneous traditions in the batch\" — offered the traditions that divided in 1844 (the Latter Day Saint succession, the Bab's declaration, the Millerite disappointment, the Taiping beginnings), or the Book of Mormon's own editions — \"1. definitely. lets go.\"" }