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Waiting for Elijah: A History of the Megiddo Mission. By Gari-Anne Patzwald. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. xviii + 262 pp. $30.00 cloth.

With this well-written book, Gari-Anne Patzwald examines the Megiddo Mission, a small apocalyptic group that started in the nineteenth century. The Mission formed out of the Campbell-Stone movement. L. T. Nichols founded the Mission in Oregon after the Civil War and was responsible for its signature beliefs: the immine...