Denominations derived from the Millerite movement of the 1840s in the United States include:
1. Evangelical Adventists , organized about 1858 under the name American Millennial Association. Originally the main body of the earlier Millerites, by 1858 they constituted those who held the view that the dead are conscious and that the lost suffer eternally, as distinguished from group 2. Their organ was the periodical called the Advent Herald , later Messiah’s Herald (originally Signs of the Times ). The Evangelical Adventists, dwindling by 1906 to 481 members, soon disappeared as an organized group.
2. Advent Christians , who separated from the main body after the failure of an 1854 expectation of the Second Advent, and were largely composed of those who held to conditional immortality as a principal doctrine. The group was organized in 1860. The World’s Crisis was its organ.
3. Seventh-day Adventists , a group that separated from the aforementioned two groups in 1845, and organized as a denomination in 1860 and 1863. It is distinguished chiefly by its observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. It shares with the Advent Christians the doctrine of conditional immortality, but holds a distinctive view of the cleansing of the sanctuary and the millennium.
4. Church of God ( Adventist ), organized 1866, an offshoot from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, retaining the seventh-day Sabbath, but differing in some other views ( see Marion Party ).
5. Church of God ( Adventist ).Unattached congregations.
6. Life and Advent Union , originating from a group led by John T. Walsh and George Storrs. It is differentiated from the other conditionalists by the belief that the unsaved are never resurrected and by holding that the millennium is past.
7. Churches of God in Christ Jesus , sometimes called “age-to-come Adventists,” differing from the other bodies in expecting the Second Advent to usher in an age of “restitution” on earth, and a millennial kingdom with the restored “Israelitish nation” in the most favored position, to be gradually extended from Jerusalem to embrace all nations. This was the older “Literalist” view ( see Messenger Party ; Premillennialism ).