Child of the Apocalypse - Hardcoverby Donald Edward Casebolt (Author) 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