The day the world didn't end
The forgotten story of America's biggest apocalyptic movement
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It was October 22nd, 1844, and the world was about to end.
Somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 people were looking up at the sky that day, waiting for Jesus to burst through the clouds. Some of them had quit their jobs, left their crops to rot in the fields, sold all their possessions, paid the debts they owed, forgave the debts owed t…