Florida Hospital vice president Des Cummings in Celebration… (photo by Jeff Kunerth )
By 28, 2013 |By Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel
In the Seventh-day Adventist church, they call Oct. 22, 1844, the "Great Disappointment." It was the day the world didn't end.
The church, celebrating its 150th anniversary this month, traces its origins back to a doomsday sect of disillusioned believers in the prophesy of William Miller. The Harold Camping of his day, Miller proclaimed a date for Jesus Christ's return, and when that didn't happen, about 3,500 disappointed believers regrouped to form the Seventh-day Adventists in Battle Creek, Mich.
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