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Joseph Marsh (1802–1863) was an American Millerite preacher, and editor of ''The Advent Harbinger and Bible Advocate''. ==Life== Joseph Marsh was born in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, on December 6, 1802. When he was 16 the family moved to Genesee County, New York, where his parents were disfellowshipped by the Methodist Episcopal Church for rejecting the Trinity. From the ages of 19 to 21 he and his brother Josiah tried their hand at farming, first in Monroe Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, then in Springfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. In 1823 he joined his brother James in Rochester, New York. Marsh took up the faith of the Christian Connection he was baptized in the Genesee River "a little above the falls". He then began several years as an itinerant preacher, while working as a carpenter to supplement his income. On August 4, 1830, he married Sarah Mariah Adams (born Sennett, New York, on November 27, 1808). They had three girls; Sarah Eliza (b. 1832), Mary Maria (b. 1834) and Permelia Jane (b. 16 June 1836) 〔http://www.ninetravelers.com/joseph.html New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 77, 1946.〕 From 1839 Marsh was pastor of a Christian Connection church in Union Mills and editor of ''The Christian Palladium'', till in 1843 he took up the teaching of William Miller that Christ would return in 1843. Following resignation from his pastorship and editorship, he supported Charles Fitch in the call for Millerites to leave established churches. In January 1844 he started publishing ''The Voice of Truth'', and in September 1844 he supported the "seven month movement". After the Great Disappointment he criticised movements towards the establishment of an Adventist denomination, and advocating "Age to come" doctrine, renamed his magazine ''The Advent Harbinger and Bible Advocate'' then in 1850 ''The Prophetical Expositor''.〔Gary Land, Historical dictionary of Seventh-Day Adventists, Scarecrow Press, 2005. p.187〕 In 1849 Marsh published ''The Bible Doctrine or True Gospel Faith'', following Millerite views of the millennium, but in 1851 in ''The Age to Come'' repudiated some of these and adopted the views of John Thomas in Elpis Israel concerning a national regathering of Israel to Palestine.〔''The Age to Come, or Glorious Restitution of All Things Spoken of by the Mouth of All the Holy Prophets Since the World Began''. Rochester, NY: Advent Harbinger 1851〕 Thomas, who had been rebaptised following his break with Campbellites in 1847 urged Marsh to also be rebaptised, as had another associate of Thomas, Benjamin Wilson, in 1851. Thomas and Marsh now agreed in belief in a kingdom on earth and the restoration of Israel, but disagreed on whether this was essential for baptism. Thomas considered that it was, and if it was essential for baptism, therefore it was also essential for fellowship and communion. The tension over rebaptism continued from 1852 to 1860. Marsh and Nathaniel Field of Jeffersonville, Indiana in ''the Prophetical Expositor'', and Thomas in the ''Herald of the Kingdom'' conducted an increasingly heated exchange of articles on whether the return of the Jews, and understanding of the promises to Abraham, was a prerequisite for a valid baptism, and therefore communion.〔Janet Stilson, David Graham, and Mark Mattison, ''A Brief History of the Formation of the Church of God General Conference'', A Journal from the Radical Reformation, Fall 1991, Vol. 1, No. 1, 47〕 In 1855 and 1856, Field hosted in Jeffersonsville two conferences at which Marsh was a major speaker. They failed however to form a denomination, and Field reduced his involvement. By 1860 two clearly defined groups existed in Rochester, and several other towns, with those who had been rebaptised since breaking with Millerism and Campbellism, like Thomas, in one group, and those, who did not see the need for a strict doctrinal continuity between belief at the time of baptism and communion, such as Marsh, in the other. Marsh sold the ''Prophetical Expositor'' to Thomas Newman in 1860, and left stocks of his books and hymnbook ''The Millennial Harp'' for Newman to sell on his behalf. Marsh's family was in Rochester for the 1860 census. His daughter Jane Marsh Parker records that "In 1860 Marsh moved to Milby, Canada. In the same year to Oshawa, Canada. He returned to the "Christians" shortly before his death in 1863." Yet Church of God records indicate that in 1863 he had just been appointed state evangelist in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Nathaniel Field's church, when he died at his daughter's home in Tecumseh, Michigan on 13 September 1863, of typhoid fever. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Marsh (Adventist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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