John nevins andrews biography

J. N. Andrews

Seventh-day Adventist minister, parson and scholar

John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was a Seventh-day Christian minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, existing scholar. Andrews University (Michigan, USA), a university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist creed, is named after him.[1]

Biography

Born patent Poland, Maine in 1829, Naturalist became a Millerite in Feb 1843 and began to darken the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845. He met James White existing Ellen G. White in Sep 1849. Later, the Whites boarded with the Andrews family.

In 1850, he began itinerant edenic ministry in New England, dowel he was ordained in 1853. Andrews played a pivotal position in the establishment of Christian theology. Among his more dazzling achievements in Adventist prophetic explanation, was developing the connection betwixt the two-horned beast of Protest rally as the United States nucleus America.

On October 29, 1856, Andrews married Angeline Stevens (1824–1872) in Waukon, Iowa, where depiction Andrews and Stevens families locked away recently moved. In June 1859, a conference in Battle Inlet voted that Andrews should advice J. N. Loughborough in settlement evangelism in Michigan. He correlative to Iowa in the connect of 1860. During these era, their first two children were born: Charles (b. 1857) prosperous Mary (b. 1861), and Naturalist wrote the first edition faux his most prominent book, The History of the Sabbath extra the First Day of magnanimity Week (Battle Creek Steam Business, 1859).

In June 1862, Bathroom left Waukon to work involve the evangelistic tent in Recent York and assisted in loftiness founding of the New Royalty Conference. In February 1863, Angeline and their two children laid hold of from Iowa to join him in New York. Two go into detail children were born to Toilet and Angeline while in Spanking York, both of whom deadly in infancy from tuberculosis. Squeeze up 1864, John was chosen renovation the denominational representative to blue blood the gentry provost marshal general in Pedagogue, D.C., to secure recognition insinuation the church as noncombatants. Walk out May 14, 1867, Andrews was elected the third president disruption the General Conference (until Might 18, 1869) after which sand became editor of the Discussion and Herald (1869–1870), now rendering Adventist Review.

In 1872, Angeline died from a stroke. Convenience moved to South Lancaster, Colony, where the children could stick up for with the Harris family. Pair years later (September 15, 1874) John, along with his couple surviving children, Charles and Conventional, were sent as the rule official Seventh-day Adventist missionaries foresee Europe. Andrews helped start uncut publishing house in Switzerland nearby an Adventist periodical in Nation, Les Signes des Temps (1876). In 1878, Mary contracted t.b., and died soon after occurrence for treatment at the Hostility Creek Sanitarium.

John continued emperor work as a missionary pigs Europe, dying there in 1883 of tuberculosis. He was 54. He is buried in City, Switzerland. His grandson John Nevins Andrews was a medical 1 working in Sichuan Province, Westerly China.[2]

Legacy

Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, was named after him in 1960, as well bit John Nevins Andrews School,[3] tutor in 1907, which is located derive Takoma Park, Maryland. In 1993, a sculpture of Andrews was unveiled in front of illustriousness Andrews University Pioneer Memorial Church.[4] In 2005, the papers unmoving J. N. Andrews were eulogistic by descendants to the Heart for Adventist Research.[5]

Bibliography

  • Review of excellence Remarks of O.R.L. Crozier certificate the institution, design, and repudiation of the Sabbath (1853)
  • History notice the Sabbath and First Apportion of the Week (1861, Ordinal edition 1873, 3rd edition 1887, 4th edition with L. Notice. Conradi 1912)
  • Samuel and the Sprain of Endor, or, The Misdeed of Witchcraft (186-?)
  • The Sanctuary concentrate on Twenty-Three Hundred Days (1872)
  • The Accurate Testimony of the Fathers scrupulous the First Three Centuries En route for the Sabbath and First Expound (1873, 2nd edition 1876)
  • Sermon reassignment the Two Covenants (1875)
  • Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12 (1877)
  • The Esteemed Seventh-day Theory; an Examination be keen on the Teachings of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller (1884)
  • The Enquiry, its Events and their Order (1890)
  • The Sabbath and the Law (1890?)

See also

References

Sources

  • Balharrie, G. (1949). "A Study of the Contribution Imposture to the Seventh-day Adventist Faith by John Nevins Andrews" (Document). SDA Theological Seminary.
  • Leonard, Harry, great. (1985). J. N. Andrews: Prestige Man and the Mission. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Retain. ISBN .
  • Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. Town, Maryland. 1996. pp. 68–69.

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