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Introdction: Child of the Apocalypse -- Aurora Borealis of february 1837, meteorite shower of 1833, dark day of 1780 -- Capacity of debilitated twelve-yearold to evaluate Miller's fifteen proofs -- Twelve-yar-old Ellen Harmons's lack of the assurance of salvation -- Primordial proofs: 1) "Many proofs" and "Starling facts" 2) "Tornado" of the holy spirit -- Buxton camp meeting's ecstatic experience for thirtee-year-old Ellen -- Elder Stockman and fourteen-year-old Ellen -- Fifteen-year-old Ellen's assurance of salvation came via the message of "Definite time" -- Foy's "Rolling Mountains of Flamne" Paralleled Miller's message of hell, hell, hell -- Mere days before march 21, 1844 Ellen exposed to foy's ecstatic hellfire preaching -- Ezedkiel 12, Habakkuk 2, and Jeremiah 51: show's proofs of a tarring time and midnight cry -- Fifteen-year-old Ellen initiates her career as public visionary, evangelist, and speaker -- Imprinting, "Train up a child," "As the twig is bent the tree is inclined" -- Mental capacity -- Caleb Rich, universalist visionary -- Richard Lander, freewill baptist founder -- Father Pearson and Portland Church ratify Ellen's Divine call -- Ellen's Sleingh ride to avoid J. Turner's bridegroom doctrine -- Ellen Harmon's first vision confirms snow's midnight cry -- Nichols's 1851 char replaces Miller's 1843 chart per Whie's authority -- Miller's erroneous theories vs common sense truths -- Bernardette Soubirous and Lourdes: Psycho-social Mileu like EGW's -- Joan of Arc's similarities with Ellen Harmon.

"Ellen White's two thousand visions, revered by her twenty million disciples, were doctrinally inspired by William Miller, who fathered the largest millennial movement in US history. He and Samuel Snow, during the movement's climax, the "Midnight Cry," predicted Christ's Second Coming for exactly October 22, 1844, on the basis of fifteen proof-texts. Ellen was twelve, suffering from severe brain trauma and the conviction that she was hell-bound, when Miller converted her. By sixteen she became convicted that she was having divine dreams and visions confirming Miller's prophetic role and message. When Miller's predictions failed and he repudiated his own predictions, Ellen announced that God had commanded her to endorse Miller's failed "Midnight Cry" as divinely inspired, and her authority replaced Miller's in the "shut-door" faction of ex-Millerites who evolved into the Seventh-day Adventist church. Miller claimed that his dogmas were the result of merely allowing the Bible to interpret itself and that his method was literal commonsense. White seconded this claim and said God's angels routinely guided Miller's interpretations. However, not only were his interpretations falsified, but examination reveals them to be farfetched allegorical treatments of parables. Nonetheless, White's visions and SDA theology still retain many of Miller's falsified predictions." --Provided by publisher.