Waiting for Elijah: A History of the Megiddo Mission

Waiting for Elijah: A History of the Megiddo Mission
ISBN-10
1572332093
ISBN-13
9781572332096
Category
Religion
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Gari-Anne Patzwald

Description

"The church originated in the itinerant ministry of a Civil War veteran named L. T. Nichols, whose controversial preaching led to his being shot and wounded. Originally known as the Christian Brethren, Nichols and his followers relocated from Oregon to the Midwest in 1883 and some years later embarked on an evangelistic ministry that entailed traveling up and down the Mississippi River system on a large steamboat. In 1904, the group moved to its present home of Rochester, New York, from which its missionaries traveled throughout the United States and Canada. They took the name "Megiddo" from a strategically located city in ancient Israel, which to them signified a place where soldiers of God gathered to renew their strength and courage."--BOOK JACKET.

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