1888 and Righteousness by Faith In 1888, Ellen White had just returned from her first visit overseas to Europe. She had spent two years traveling through England, France, Switzerland, and other places serving primarily as an evangelist and revivalist to help the growing conferences out there. She was also able to gather more information about the p
Mr. President Arthur Grosvenor Daniells was the longest-serving president the Adventist church has ever had. During his 21 years of presidency, he led the church through the reorganization of 1901 and 1903, the Kellogg crisis in the early 1900s, the first World War, and the famous 1919 Bible conference. Daniells was also the first General Conferenc
Worldwide Health Reformer Corn flakes cereal is what John Harvey Kellogg is most famous for. But few realize that breakfast foods are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Kellogg's influence in the world of health. Before many understood the benefits of a vegetarian diet, before many understood the importance of gut health, and before many
The Last Pioneer Standing J. N. Loughborough lived to be 92 years old before his death in 1924, making him the oldest pioneer who had preached the Adventist message since the 1850s. He lived to see Joseph Bates, James White, J. N. Andrews, Uriah Smith, and Ellen White all pass away. Although it must have been immensely saddening to watch all his ol
A Man Who Stuck to His Guns Uriah Smith is most famous for his book Daniel and the Revelation, which helped many Adventists understand those apocalyptic books. The volume came out in the 1870s and was revised around 20 years later by Smith. Nothing major was changed by the author, which illustrates much of the pioneer’s life. Whether it came to his
James White’s Melanchthon The Protestant Reformation was led forth by the fiery personality of Martin Luther. More behind the scenes in those times was the scholarly Philip Melanchthon. He helped to organize Luther’s thoughts into a system of truth and even helped to correct some errors of the older man. J. N. Andrews was like the Melanchthon of th
The Workhorse You would be hard-pressed to find someone who did more to propel the Adventist movement forward than James White. Joseph Bates provided the theological spark, and Ellen White’s inspired messages guided the church through troubling times, but without James White, it would be hard to imagine Seventh-day Adventism being where it is today
Pioneer History: Old News or Good News? “In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see what God has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord
In this article, the second of our Early Adventism and the Apocrypha series, a series exploring various books contained in early Adventist Bibles (and still retained in most Bibles around the world), we will discuss and discover the book known as the Wisdom of Solomon (sometimes called the Book of Wisdom). This work will be introduced, explored, an
Since the 1987 publication of Ronald Graybill’s original and groundbreaking article which resurrected the forgotten history of Adventism’s early acceptance and embrace of the Apocrypha as Scripture,[1] an increasing awareness of the Apocrypha and its connection to Adventist identity has begun to emerge thanks to the continued work of recent scholar
