Giosue Vaughan Himes

1805 (age 90)

Wickford, North Kingstown, United States of America

At 18 he joined the Christian Connexion church in New Bedford where he was licensed as an exhorter. Over the next few years he pastored several districts in Massachusetts, before becoming pastor of the First Christian Church in Boston in 1830. Himes met William Miller in 1839 at Exeter, New Hampshire. Impressed, he invited Miller to speak at the Chardon Street Chapel. From these lectures Himes became convinced of the imminent return of Christ, and sought opportunities for Miller to preach. He led in organizing general conferences and camp meetings, and published hundreds of pamphlets as well as the second and third editions of Miller"s lectures. He organized extensive lecture tours for Miller and himself as far west as Cincinnati, brought about the manufacture of the "great tent," at that time the largest tent in the United States, for use on these tours, and established a network of agents, book depots, and reading rooms from Boston to Saint Louis. In 1842 he started a second newspaper, the Midnight Cry, in New York City. Himes" promotional work brought Millerism to the attention of the world. Like Miller, Himes at first opposed the setting of October 22, 1844 as the exact date for the return of Christ, but accepted it shortly before the date arrived. After the Great Disappointment when Jesus did not return on this day, he played a leading role in trying to reorganize the disappointed Adventists around the original Advent faith at the Albany Conference in April 1845. In 1865 he was the founding president of the American Advent Mission Society, and was further planning to start a college in Illinois.

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Himes was born in Wickford, Rhode Island.

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His parents intended for him to become an Episcopal priest, but when a business deal went sour he was unable to complete his education and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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At 18 he joined the Christian Connexion church in New Bedford where he was licensed as an exhorter. Over the next few years he pastored several districts in Massachusetts, before becoming pastor of the First Christian Church in Boston in 1830. Himes met William Miller in 1839 at Exeter, New Hampshire.

Impressed, he invited Miller to speak at the Chardon Street Chapel.

From these lectures Himes became convinced of the imminent return of Christ, and sought opportunities for Miller to preach. He led in organizing general conferences and camp meetings, and published hundreds of pamphlets as well as the second and third editions of Miller"s lectures.

He organized extensive lecture tours for Miller and himself as far west as Cincinnati, brought about the manufacture of the "great tent," at that time the largest tent in the United States, for use on these tours, and established a network of agents, book depots, and reading rooms from Boston to Saint Louis. In 1842 he started a second newspaper, the Midnight Cry, in New York City.

Himes" promotional work brought Millerism to the attention of the world.

Like Miller, Himes at first opposed the setting of October 22, 1844 as the exact date for the return of Christ, but accepted it shortly before the date arrived. After the Great Disappointment when Jesus did not return on this day, he played a leading role in trying to reorganize the disappointed Adventists around the original Advent faith at the Albany Conference in April 1845. In 1865 he was the founding president of the American Advent Mission Society, and was further planning to start a college in Illinois.

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