Jn andrews adventist pioneer
John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was a..
While Andrews was not one of the original inner threesome of Adventism's founders, he was nonetheless the first of Adventism's notable and enduring pioneers.
J. N. Andrews
Seventh-day Adventist minister, missionary and scholar
John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, 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]
Biography
Born in Poland, Maine in 1829, Andrews became a Millerite 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 1874, he became the first SDA missionary in Switzerland.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 the two-horned beast of Revelation as the United States of America.
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