He and others led a movement which stirred many including Ellen White and her family to accept his teachings.Ĭhrist did not come in 1844 and the excitement passed with disappointment for and ridicule of the so called ‘Millerites’. He believed the ‘cleansing of the sanctuary’, a phrase from the book of Daniel, applied to the cleansing of the earth at the second coming of Jesus. Miller taught that Christ would come and the present world end in October 1844 based on his understanding of the Biblical books, Daniel and The Revelation. The early and mid parts of the 19th century in the USA saw a religious fervour or awakening driven by William Miller and his interpretation of Biblical prophecy. Her health reform message and his medical training were given practical application by Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, USA. White was considered a ‘messenger of the Lord’ and wrote on religion and health reform from about 1863. The Weet-Bix story needs to be understood in the context of 19th-century American social and religious history, especially the early history of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church and its two prominent leaders Mrs Ellen White and Dr John Harvey Kellogg. She asked me through her grandmother, GF Ann Powrie, to clarify who did invent Weet-Bix and what role Arthur Shannon played in the early history. She was challenged and perhaps affronted by the various stories on line which largely ignored her ‘famous’ great-great uncle, Arthur Shannon. She found entries in Wikipedia and Timespanner which suggested a different beginning for Weet-Bix. My great-niece Phoebe Cheung was intrigued by the story of ‘Mr Weet-Bix’ and went searching online to find out more. The family story is that Arthur Shannon was ‘Mr Weet-Bix’ and the inventor in Sydney during the 1920s of the famous breakfast biscuit now manufactured and marketed by the Sanitarium Health Food Company (SHF).
Arthur Shannon was my uncle (my mother was Gladys Shannon, Arthur’s younger sister).
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