John Nevins Andrews
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| Born | 1829 Poland, Maine |
| Died | 1883 Basel, Switzerland |
| Occupation | President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Minister, Missionary, |
| Spouse | Angeline Stevens |
John Nevins Andrews (1829 – 1883), was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. Born in Poland, Maine in 1829, Andrews was converted in February 1843 and began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845. He met James White and Ellen G. White in September 1849. Later, the Whites boarded with the Andrews family. In 1850 he began itinerant pastoral ministry in New England and ordained in 1853. Andrews played a pivotal role in the establishment of Adventist theology. Among his more memorable achievements was identifying in Adventist prophetic interpretation the identity of the two-horned beast of Revelation which he applied to the United States of America.[1] On Oct. 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 in Battle Creek voted that Andrews should assist J. 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 wrote the first edition of his most famous 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 Angelina while in New York, both of whom died in infancy from tuberculosis. In 1864, John was chosen as the denominational representative to the Provost Marshall 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 the Adventist Review.
In 1872 Angeline died from a stroke. John moved to South Lancaster, Massachusetts, where the children could stay with the Harris family. Two years later, John along with his two surviving children, Charles and Mary, were sent as the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Europe. Andrews helped started a publishing house in Switzerland and an Adventist periodical in French, Les Signes des Temps (1876). In 1878 Mary caught tuberculosis and died soon after arriving for treatment at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Andrews died on Oct. 21, 1883 and is buried in Basel, Switzerland.
Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan was named after him in 1960. In 1993 a Sculpture of J. N. Andrews was unveiled in front of the Andrews University Pioneer Memorial Church. In 2005 the papers of J. N. Andrews were donated by descendants to the Center for Adventist Research.
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Helpful treatments of J. N. Andrews include a M.A. thesis by G. Balharrie, "A Study of the Contribution Made to the Seventh-day Adventist Church by John Nevins Andrews," (SDA Theological Seminary, 1949); Harry Leonard, editor, J. N. Andrews: The Man and the Mission (Andrews University Press, 1985); and the Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, 1996 edition, vol. 10, pages 68-69.
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Online Writings:
- Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12, online book
- The Judgement, its Events and their Order, online book
- History of the Sabbath, online book
- Adventist Archives Contains articles written by J.N. Andrews
| Preceded by James White |
President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 1867 – 1869 |
Succeeded by James White |
| Preceded by Uriah Smith |
Editor of the Adventist Review 1869 – 1870 |
Succeeded by Uriah Smith |
