Ron Graybill

Child of the Apocalypse

History & Biography

“Casebolt shows how William Miller’s complex and convoluted proofs that Christ would return in 1844 were well beyond the ability of twelve-year-old Ellen Harmon to comprehend. Suffering the debilitating effects of severe brain trauma, she was swinging from darkest depression to soaring flights of cataleptic ecstasy. She was so debilitated she could not continue her education. Yet she found assurance of her own salvation in acceptance of Miller’s arguments.”