Baha'is see William Miller as correct in his awareness of the "Return of Christ".

"The strict moral codes and ideological commitments of old-time Baha'is who tended to control Local Spiritual Assemblies and to provide the cadre for Auxiliary Board Members and their assistants may have been a powerful selecting mechanism. Liberals who joined may have been made uncomfortable and encouraged to leave at much higher rates than those of a conservative or fundamentalist mindset. Several of my liberal informants who left the religion told stories of having been publicly humiliated by such officials. (The Baha'i faith retains only about 50 percent of converts, compared to 80 percent among mainstream Christian denominations). Many of those who joined in the 1970s brought with them fundamentalist outlooks, as well. Opinion polls show that most African-Americans, despite their social liberalism, are inerrantists when it comes to scripture, and African-Americans constituted at least 10 percent, and perhaps more, of the community by the 1980s. White evangelicals attracted by books like William Sears' Thief in the Night, which explains to Christians how Baha'u'llah is the return of Christ using Millerite arguments, may have accounted for more of the converts than researchers earlier realized."

-Former Baha'i, Scholar, Professor Juan Cole