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Third party (not Adventist) citations for J. N. Andrews,[edit]

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Secondary Sources (Adventist) for Andrews[edit]

  • Burt, Merlin D. (2011). Adventist Pioneer Places: New York and New England. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association. pp. 18–23. ISBN 978-0-8280-2568-3.

Paris Hill



"On this hill lived the Andrews family, the Stowell family, and the Stevens family. The Edward Andrews home is part of what is now the country club building. His son, John N. Andrews, who grew up in this home, was one of the important pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

"The Andrews family was one of the most prominent in Paris Hill. John Nevins Andrews (1829-1883) was the first official Seventh-day Adventist oversears foreign missionary and the namesake of Andrews University. Charles Andrews (1814-1852), an uncle to John, became a lawyer and politician. He was first a state representative from 1839 to 1843 and served as speaker during 1842. In 1845 he became clerk of courts for Oxford County, Maine, and in 1851 became a member of Congress. His political career was cut short when he died of buberculosis on April 30, 1852. (1)

"In September 1848 Charles Andrews built a comfortable home for his wife. It still stands on Paris Hill almost directly across from the site of the Edward Andrews home. The Maine Historical Society has the diaries and papers of Persis Sibley Andrews, wife of Charles. The diaries give interesting insights into the Andrews family and the Millerite movement in Paris Hill.

"Down the hill beyond the cemetery and off Paris Hill Road on Hooper Ledge Road is is the comfortable and beautifully situated home of Cyprian Stevens. The Stevenses had five daughters. At one point an early Adventist quipped that Cyprian and his wife served God's cause by providing spouses for church workers. Angeline Stevens became the beloved wife of J.N. Andrews and Harriet Stevens married Uriah Smith.

"There is an important early seventh-day Sabbath story from Paris Hill. In the spring of 1845 T.M. Preble's tract on the Sabbath was sent to Lewis B. Stowell. This tract, reprinted from the Portland, Maine, Adventist paper Hope of Israel, advocated the seventh-day, or Saturday, as the Sabbath of the Bible. Stowell set the tract aside, but his 15-year-old daughter Marian picked it up and read it. Convinced that the Sabbath was biblical, she decided to keep it. Soon her brother Oswald and J.N. Andrews (also 15 years old) joined her, as did their parents. In Paris Hill it was the teenagers who spiritually led the way to observe the fourth commandment. Young Oswald later became an apprentice printer in the Review and Herald office in Rochester, New York. He continued to work with the office after it relocated to Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1855.

"Lewis Stowell sent a letter and $10 to the Seventh Day Baptist minister in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, to obtain materials on the Sabbath. Soon Seventh Day Baptist tracts were delivered, and a small community of Sabbthkeeping Adventists that included the Stowell, Andrews, and Stevens families was formed. (2)

"By 1856 the Andrews and Stevens families relocated to the state of Iowa, and Paris Hill, Maine, became a memory of the early beginnings and stuggles of Sabbatarian Adventism...

"...During 1845 fanaticism was particularly strong in Paris Hill. Ellen Harmon went there to address some of the confusing problems. She was told in vision to reprove Jesse Stevens. Stevens, who had been a Methodist minister, was advocating that it was a sin to work and taught that humility meant crawling on the ground and washing feet. One time he was crawling around town and got in front of a coach, and the driver plied him with his whip. The Stevens family and others who refused to work were at times provided food by the Stowell family. (Ellen) Harmon rebuked Stevens for going contrary to the Lord 'abstaining from labor, and urging his errors upon others.' He rejected the visions and went his strange way. His story ended sadly when he handged himself with his own bedclothes. Marian Stowell, a young girl living in Paris at the time, shared their experience with Ellen White... "

According to Marian Stowell, even J.N. apparently considered Dorinda Baker to have received messages from God. Marian Stowell had concluded that Baker's experiences were feigned.



  • Collins, Norma J. (2005), "Chapter 10, John Nevins Andrews: "The Ablest Man in Our Ranks"", Heartwarming Stories of Adventist Pioneers, Book 1, Review and Herald Publishing Association, pp. 148–166, ISBN 0-8280-1895-2 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help). Written in storybook format without citations.
  • Leonard, Harry, ed. J. N. Andrews: The Man and His Mission. Berrien Springs,

Mich.: Andrews University Press, 1985. xi + 355 pp. Paperback, $10.95.

Reviewed by George R. Knight 2 and below

This volume consists of seventeen papers on John Nevins Andrews (1829-83), from whom Andrews University has drawn its name and who served as the first overseas missionary for the Seventh- day Adventist church—to Switzerland in 1874. Most of these papers were originally delivered at a symposium held from August 30 to September 1, 1983, in Collonges-sous-Saleve, France, though several had been given earlier, at Andrews University in September, 1979. The international flavor of Andrews's work is stressed, giving attention to his missionary activity in Switzerland and noting, as well, the outreach of his influence to Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. Several chapters are devoted to his scholarly pursuits, and there is also treatment of him as "family man" and "churchman." The authors of these papers, interestingly and pertinently, represent a wide array of scholarship— from England, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. 1

Primary Sources by Andrews[edit]

J. N. A[ndrews], "May Women Speak in Meeting?" Review and Herald, January 2, 1879, 1. Citation Source

Chronology for life of Andrews[edit]

1829
Born

1850
Became a Sabbathkeeping Adventist. (See Corliss below)

1861
Published History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week.

1867-1869
Third president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

1874
In September, 1874, as first overseas Adventist missionary, sailed from Boston for Europe. 1

1879
J. N. A[ndrews], "May Women Speak in Meeting?" Review and Herald, January 2, 1879, 1. 3

1882
Died

1960
Andrews University named in his honor.

2

University announces new name and reasons[edit]

Andrews University, New Name to Replace Potomac University

The 1960 Spring Council of Seventh-day Adventists held in Washington April 5-7, approved the adoption of a new name for Potomac University as recommended by the University Board.

This important institution was renamed Andrews University in memory of John Nevins Andrews, who symbolizes for Seventh-day Adventists the missionary spirit and vision of the church throughout the world.

The need for a change of name became apparent when the University was relocated at Berrien Springs, Michigan. This transfer rendered the geographical name "Potomac" no longer, suitable. A new name had been under study for many months, a large number of possibilities being carefully considered. At length it was decided that no other name so eminently suitable as Andrews University had been suggested.

The name of John Nevins Andrews has been an honored one among Adventists since 1874 when he set forth as the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary. Elder Andrews was not only a Christian gentleman of deep devotion, but a scholar of considerable distinction, a man of many virtues whose entire life was devoted single-mindedly to Christian service. It has been felt that no better name could be chosen for our university than that of our very first foreign representative. This name will hereafter be memorialized in our university, dedicated to the training of men and women from this and other lands for Christian service. It is believed that such a name will continue to remind us of the high ideals, the dedication and the faithfulness all need as we labor together to complete the work God has entrusted to this people. F. O. RITTENHOUSE, President

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/ALUG/ALUG19600530-V59-22__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=3


ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, NEW NAME TO REPLACE POTOMAC UNIVERSITY

The 1960 Spring Council of Seventh- day Adventists recently approved the adoption of a new name for Potomac University, stated President F. O. Rittenhuuse.

This institution was renamed Andrews University in memory of John Nevins Andrews, who symbolizes for Seventh-day Adventists the missionary vision and program of the church, stated Dr. Rittenhouse. "After all the discussion on the name, it was a simple thing to agree to this," he said.

The university board presented the suggested name change to the Spring Council in Washington, D.C., and it was approved April 6. The name change was needed because of the relocation of the university at Bcrrien Springs, which made the geographical term, "Potomac," no longer suitable, stated Eld. R. R. Figuhr, president of the General Conference of S.D.A.

"It could be added that Elder Andrews was not only a Christian gentleman of deep devotion, but a scholar of considerable distinction, a man of many \irtues whose entire life was devoted single-mindedly to Christian service. No better name could be selected for our university than that of our very first foreign representative," said Dr. Rittenhouse.

Dr. Rittenhouse said that "in 1874 when Mrs. Ellen G. White visited our small group of believers in Europe who were assembled in Switzerland, one of the brethren asked her what kind of man the company here in America was sending out to Europe in the capacity of our first foreign missionary. Mrs. White replied, 'We are sending you Eld. J. N. Andrews, the best man we have.'"

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/LUH/LUH19600426-V52-17__C/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=16

1904, Corliss writes of Andrews[edit]

The Experiences of Former Days—No. 8

The Call of Other Pioneer Workers In the Messnge

J. O. CORLISS

VERY soon after the office of tlhe Advent Review was located in Paris, Maine, in 1850, a you«g man accepted the message, who had just attained his majority. After reaching the age of twelve, he had, by force of circumstances, been denied school privileges; yet so keen was his intellect, and so logical his' trend of thought, that at the age of fourteen he was frequently invited to address the people of his native village on religious topics.

Upon receiving the truth, this young man burned with zeal to fit himself for usefulness in God's cause. In this he succeeded, as every young .man of to-day might succeed if he would devote as much time to study 'as did the young man John Nevins Andrews. His invariable custom, as long as the writer had opportunity to observe it, was to arise at four in the morning for devotion and study. The result was a command of seven languages, and a most extensive information in both secular and religious history. But the most valuable part of his mental acquirement was his knowledge of the Bible. The writer once 'heard the question asked him as to how much of the Bible he could quote from memory. The answer was: " I would not presume to say that I could repeat all of the Old Testament, but I feel certain that if the new Testament was lost, I could reproduce it verbatim." • One of the earliest productions of Elder Andrews' pen Was a pamphlet of about one hundred pages, entitled " The Four Kingdoms, The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days." No writings of later days have made the subject more simple and plain than that little -work. But that which gave Brother Andrews the prominence as a man of deep research and a candid reasoner, was the large book entitled " The History of the Sabbath." ' This showed years of patient toil and its thoroughness was characteristic of the man in everything he undertook.

He became the first Seventh-day Advenbist missionary to foreign lands, founding the Swiss Mission in 1874. Nine years later he died in Basel, at the age of fifty-four years and three months.

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19040915-V81-37__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=9

Andrews at the first camp meeting, September 1868[edit]

J. N. Andrews served as the third president of the General Conference, from 1867-1869. The first Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting took place in September of 1868. He took an active role at that meeting:

Elder J. N. Andrews was at that meeting, and in the eveniag he would call at each tent, and ask, "Are you all comfortable for the night?"

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18970706-V74-27__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=2

It seems that Pastor Andrews had some

part in nearly every activity of this church in its earliest days. He attended the first camp meeting, which was held in Michi- gan in 1868. He preached many times during the meeting, but he also demon- strated his thoughtfulness in another way. The history of those early days says that "one feature of the preparation for the night's rest was long remembered by those who attended the first camp meeting. After all others had gone to their tents, around the whole encampment there walked a tall, brown-bearded man, and before each tent he stopped to ask in his pleasant voice, 'Are you all comfortable for the night?" And if any one wanted anything, the tall man was sure to see that it was supplied. He was one of the principal speakers of the meeting, with Mr. and Mrs. White, but he found time to look after the comfort of others. His

name was J. N. Andrews."

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YI/YI19520902-V100-36__C/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=26

Legacy[edit]

Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jamaica

Andrews Memorial Hospital, Jamaica

Thank You, J.N. Andrews! by Bjorn Karlman

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