George Storrs

His biography notes, "Storrs, while a member of the New Hampshire Conference, was a strong man, able and influential in its councils, and the beloved pastor of several important churches.

"I solemnly believe the Sabbath belongs, in a peculiar sense, to the slave," he wrote in the article, which was reprinted by the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator.

[2] In 1837, he found a copy of a pamphlet by Henry Grew on a train, concerning the doctrines of conditional immortality (the non-immortality of the soul), and hell.

Storrs became one of the leaders of the Second Advent movement and affiliated with William Miller and Joshua V. Himes.

After a considerable amount of study, Storrs preached to some Adventists on the condition and prospects for the dead.