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J. N. Andrews | |
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| Born | John Nevins Andrews July 22, 1829 |
| Died | October 21, 1883(1883-10-21) (aged 54) |
| Spouse | Angeline Stevens |
| Children | 4 (3 died oftuberculosis) |
| Occupation | President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,Minister,Missionary |
John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was aSeventh-day Adventist minister and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar.Andrews University (Michigan, USA), a university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, is named after him.[1]
Born inPoland, Maine, in 1829, Andrews became aMillerite in February 1843 and began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845. He metJames White andEllen G. White in September 1849. Later, the Whites boarded with the Andrews family.
In 1850, he began itinerant pastoral ministry in New England, and he was ordained in 1853. Andrews played a pivotal role in the establishment of Adventist theology. Among his more memorable achievements in Adventist prophetic interpretation, was developing the connection between thetwo-horned beast of Revelation as the United States of America.
On October 29, 1856, Andrews married Angeline Stevens (1824–1872) in Waukon, Iowa, where the Andrews and Stevens families had recently moved. In June 1859, a conference inBattle Creek voted that Andrews should assistJ. N. Loughborough in tent evangelism in Michigan. He returned to Iowa in the fall of 1860. During these years, their first two children were born: Charles (b. 1857) and Mary (b. 1861), and Andrews wrote the first edition of his most prominent book,The History of the Sabbath and the First Day of the Week (Battle Creek Steam Press, 1859).
In June 1862, John left Waukon to work with the evangelistic tent in New York and assisted in the founding of the New York Conference. In February 1863, Angeline and their two children moved from Iowa to join him in New York. Two more children were born to John and Angeline while in New York, both of whom died in infancy fromtuberculosis. In 1864, John was chosen as the denominational representative to the provost marshal general in Washington, D.C., to secure recognition for the church as noncombatants. On May 14, 1867, Andrews was elected the third president of the General Conference (until May 18, 1869) after which he became editor of the Review and Herald (1869–1870), now theAdventist Review.
In 1872, Angeline died from a stroke. John moved toSouth Lancaster, Massachusetts, where the children could stay with the Harris family. Two years later (September 15, 1874) John, along with his two surviving children, Charles and Mary, were sent as the first official Seventh-dayAdventist missionaries to Europe. Andrews helped start a publishing house in Switzerland and an Adventist periodical in French,Les Signes des Temps (1876). In 1878, Mary contracted tuberculosis and died soon after arriving for treatment at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
John continued his work as a missionary in Europe, dying there in 1883 of tuberculosis. He was 54. He is buried inBasel, Switzerland. His grandson,John Nevins Andrews, was a medical missionaryworking in Sichuan Province, West China.[2]
Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, was named after him in 1960, as well as John Nevins Andrews School,[3] in 1907, which is located inTakoma Park, Maryland. In 1993, a sculpture of Andrews was unveiled in front of the Andrews University Pioneer Memorial Church.[4] In 2005, the papers of J. N. Andrews were donated by descendants to the Center for Adventist Research.[5]
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{{cite encyclopedia}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)| Preceded by | President of theGeneral Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 1867–1869 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Editor of theAdventist Review 1869–1870 | Succeeded by |
