Editing Temperance movement (section)

====Millerites and Seventh-day Adventists====
William Miller, the founder of the Millerites, claimed that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ would be in 1843 and that anyone who drank alcohol would be unprepared for the Second Coming.<ref name="clean" />{{rp|29}} After the [[Great Disappointment]] in 1843, the Seventh-day Adventist denomination adopted health reforms inspired by influential church pioneers [[Ellen G. White]] and her husband, a preacher, [[James Springer White]], who did not use alcohol or tobacco.<ref name="clean" />{{rp|29}} Ellen preached healthful living to her followers, without specifying abstinence from alcohol, as most of her followers were temperance followers, and abstinence would have been implied.<ref name="clean" />{{rp|30}}