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Joshua Vaughan Himes was born on May 19, 1805 in Wickford, Rhode Island, United States. He was the son of Stukeley Himes, a West India trader, and Elizabeth (Vaughan) Himes.
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Joshua Vaughan Himes was born on May 19, 1805 in Wickford, Rhode Island, United States. He was the son of Stukeley Himes, a West India trader, and Elizabeth (Vaughan) Himes.
It had been the intention of the father to educate Himes at Brown University for the ministry of the Episcopal Church, but in 1817 an unfaithful captain absconded with a ship and cargo, ruining the elder Himes financially. The boy was then apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in New Bedford.
During his apprenticeship Himes became an exhorter and in 1827 he entered the ministry of the Christian Church and was assigned to evangelistic work in southern Massachusetts. In 1830 he was called to Boston as pastor of the First Christian Church. Seven years later he organized the Second Christian Church, of which he remained in charge until 1842. Under his labors it grew from a little handful to such numbers that the Chardon Street Chapel with a capacity of about five hundred was built.
Through the influence of William Lloyd Garrison, he became active in the abolitionist movement, and he took a prominent part in other reforms of the day. He helped to organize the Non-resistance Society of Boston in the late thirties, and promoted a manual-training school. In 1839 he met William Miller, who was preaching that the second coming of Christ was likely to occur about 1843. He accepted Miller's teaching and became his chief assistant.
Previous to his meeting with Himes, Miller had been a rather obscure figure working in the rural sections. As if by magic, Himes opened the great cities to his captain, and within three years Miller's name and doctrine were on the lips of every one. He became a veritable Aaron to the Moses of the Advent movement. Early in 1840 he began at Boston the publication of Signs of the Times. This grew into a vigorous weekly.
In 1842 The Midnight Cry was established in New York, running for one month as a daily and thereafter as a weekly. A huge tent was purchased and Miller and Himes journeyed from city to city holding immense meetings, warning the world of the near advent of Christ. In the larger places visited, papers were started and within two years flourishing little journals had been established in Philadelphia, Rochester, Cincinnati, and elsewhere. Under his direction tracts, pamphlets, and books streamed from the press for distribution to the ends of the earth. Literature was placed on the ships leaving New York; bundles of papers were mailed to post offices and newspaper offices for free distribution.
Owing to his direct connection with the publishing work and to the fact that he handled large sums of money, the press accused him of insincerity and of enriching himself at the expense of his credulous followers. These charges he readily disproved and stood acquitted in the public eye. He was not without faults, however, for at a church trial a few years later some of his earlier actions were shown to be questionable; but his shortcomings appear to have been due to personal weakness in time of stress rather than to insincerity.
Bitterly disappointed that Christ did not appear in 1843 or 1844, he looked for his coming in 1854 but was again disappointed. In the late fifties he sold the Advent Herald (formerly Signs of the Times) at Boston and moved West, publishing the Advent Christian Times in Buchanan, Michigan, and Chicago, for some years. Because of differences arising between him and the Advent Christian denomination of which he had become a member, he left it, and in 1878 returned to the Episcopal Church, although his views on the Advent remained unchanged. The following year he took charge of the Vermilion and Elk Point missions, South Dakota, and at the time of his death was rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Elk Point.
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Himes was a member of the Advent Christian Church.
Himes was twice married: first, in 1826, to Mary Thompson Handy, who died in 1876; and second, in 1879, to Hannah Harley.