The moment
Ellen Harmon was a Millerite teenager in Maine when Christ failed to return on 22 October 1844; that December she had the first of the visions that guided a small Sabbath-keeping remnant of the movement. In May 1863 its congregations organised the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists at Battle Creek, and White's counsel shaped its Saturday worship, its health reform and its sanitariums and schools. The church regards her as a prophet sent by God and now counts more than 23 million members.
People: Ellen G. White, James White, William Miller