Nelson Homer Barbour
Nelson Homer Barbour (* 1824 in Throopsville , New York ; † 1905 ) was an American Adventist .
He became known through his association with the Bible scholar Charles Taze Russell in the years 1876 to 1881. After the failure of Christ to return in 1844, the revival movement collapsed. From this "Great Disappointment" of 1844 he collected a small group of former Millerites who kept the principle of the near expectation of Christ around Nelson H. Barbour.
He began to study the Bible intensively in order to find the alleged error in the calculation of the second coming. In 1869 he published his first work, believing that he had found evidence of the coming of Jesus in 1874. He then published the publication The Midnight Cry (The Midnight Call) , but soon changed the name to The Herald of the Morning (The Herald of the Morning) .
Very little is known about his personal life. Various sources state that he was married and, based on another, that he had a gold mine in Australia before coming to the United States to begin his missionary service. He probably died in 1905 on a trip to the American West, although other sources date his death to 1908. His obituary appeared in The World's Crisis , a universalist magazine edited by a former collaborator, John H. Paton.
Charles T. Russell and Nelson H. Barbour first came into contact in 1876. Russell contributed editorially and financially to Barbour's Herald of the Morning magazine . A year later they brought out the 196-page book Three Worlds and the Harvest of this World (other title: Three Worlds or Plan of Redemption ). But as early as 1878 the connection between the two men was weakened by theological arguments until the connection finally broke. From the summer of 1879, Russell published his own magazine called Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence . Barbour published the Herald until 1903 .
Web links
- The Three Worlds Author: NH Barbour, Editor: Ch. T. Russell 1877. (PDF file; 713 kB)
- Message to the editor of the Herald of the Morning 1879 Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence, July 1, 1879. (PDF file; 369 kB)
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| SURNAME | Barbour, Nelson Homer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American preacher, founder of the Age to Come Adventists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Throopsville , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1905 |