Religious Figure. She was very active in the Megiddo Mission Church, a small American Restorationist denomination founded by the Rev. L. T. Nichols in 1880 and was based by 1904 in Rochester, New York. The group were pacifists. According to "Digitizing Rochester's Religions," the Megiddo congregation was named after a Biblically-referenced village in Palestine. Nichols conceived the idea of spreading their gospel by cruising the Mississippi River and the tributaries in a three-deck steamboat, named the "Megiddo." The Restoration Movement, which started in the 19th century after the "Second Awakening," were religious groups, breaking from traditional churches and forming a church that was focused mainly on the New Testament of the Bible. Megiddo Mission belief system denies the Holy Trinity, the immortality of the soul, no Hell or water baptism, communion once a year, and Nichols' birthday is a Holy holiday, second only to Christmas. When Nichols died in 1912, she became the leading pastor, in an era when women were not church leaders. She had been a Roman Catholic before converting in 1877 and following Nichols in his mission. She was the church organist. She contributed greatly to the growth of the church in the United States by organizing groups of traveling missionaries and establishing the "Megiddo Message" periodical. She started the Megiddo Progressive Workers, who would travel by foot or on bicycles from Rochester into the Great Lakes area, distributing periodicals. Two new boats were obtained, "Megiddo II" and "Megiddo III," which were used to spread their periodicals. By 1924, the boats and bicycles were replaced as a means of transportation with motorcycles, automobiles, and a bus. In 1926, the church was using large tents for services not only in the United States but in Canada and printing hundred of pamphlets. In 1927 she published "History of the Megiddo Mission: Founded 1880." Another church history was published in 1965. After her death, she was succeeded by Nichols' sister, Ella, who led the church until her death in 1945. By the 21st century, Megiddo Mission Church membership has dwindled greatly since the peak in the first half of the twentieth century.
Religious Figure. She was very active in the Megiddo Mission Church, a small American Restorationist denomination founded by the Rev. L. T. Nichols in 1880 and was based by 1904 in Rochester, New York. The group were pacifists. According to "Digitizing Rochester's Religions," the Megiddo congregation was named after a Biblically-referenced village in Palestine. Nichols conceived the idea of spreading their gospel by cruising the Mississippi River and the tributaries in a three-deck steamboat, named the "Megiddo." The Restoration Movement, which started in the 19th century after the "Second Awakening," were religious groups, breaking from traditional churches and forming a church that was focused mainly on the New Testament of the Bible. Megiddo Mission belief system denies the Holy Trinity, the immortality of the soul, no Hell or water baptism, communion once a year, and Nichols' birthday is a Holy holiday, second only to Christmas. When Nichols died in 1912, she became the leading pastor, in an era when women were not church leaders. She had been a Roman Catholic before converting in 1877 and following Nichols in his mission. She was the church organist. She contributed greatly to the growth of the church in the United States by organizing groups of traveling missionaries and establishing the "Megiddo Message" periodical. She started the Megiddo Progressive Workers, who would travel by foot or on bicycles from Rochester into the Great Lakes area, distributing periodicals. Two new boats were obtained, "Megiddo II" and "Megiddo III," which were used to spread their periodicals. By 1924, the boats and bicycles were replaced as a means of transportation with motorcycles, automobiles, and a bus. In 1926, the church was using large tents for services not only in the United States but in Canada and printing hundred of pamphlets. In 1927 she published "History of the Megiddo Mission: Founded 1880." Another church history was published in 1965. After her death, she was succeeded by Nichols' sister, Ella, who led the church until her death in 1945. By the 21st century, Megiddo Mission Church membership has dwindled greatly since the peak in the first half of the twentieth century.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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