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Joseph Bates: “Among the many sins committed by prophets, priests, and people, the most prominent has been the polluting God’s holy Sabbath.”![]()
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Joseph Bates, [Sabbath Controversy #1] The Seventh Day Sabbath, A Perpetual Sign, (Press of Benjamin Lindsey, 1846), 22.![]()
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The Center for Adventist Research has the Henry E. Andren Collection (122).![]()
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Henry E. Andren, a native of Sweden, migrated to New York around the age of ten. He worked on Wall Street during his teen years, and later studied medicine at the College of Medical Evangelists, now Loma Linda University. Andren dedicated a total of 28 years to the Sanitarium work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Sixteen of those years were spent at Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland; eight years at St. Helena Sanatarium and Hospital in California; and four years at New England Sanitarium and Hospital near Boston, Massachusetts. He also spent six additional years in active military service with the U.S. Army, and two years completing specialty training.![]()
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The Henry E. Andren Collection contains the memoirs and writings of Andren, a Seventh-day Adventist physician, who served in the medical work for nearly three decades. His writings capture his first-hand experience of some of the most significant events of the first half of the 20th century, including the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the Second World War. In addition to his reflections on these events, Andren’s writings also narrate his interaction with prominent figures in Adventist sanitarium work, including Dan and Lauretta Kress and Wells A. Ruble.![]()
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The Henry E. Andren Collection also contains a significant amount of correspondence between Andren and Louise Dederen, the former curator of the Andrews University Heritage Room, now the Center for Adventist Research. This correspondence is relate to the formation of the collection.![]()
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“Often accompanied by his wife Catharine or his daughter Martha, John Byington traveled among the tiny, scattered congregations from northern Indiana to north-central Michigan, preaching, baptizing, performing weddings (the cost rose from two to five dollars apiece after the financial Panic of 1857) and funerals.”![]()
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Strayer, Brian E. John Byington: First General Conference President, Circuit-Riding Preacher, and Radical Reformer. Adventist Pioneer Series (Nampa, Idaho: Pacific Press, 2018), 152.![]()
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Discover oversized photos preserved in the vault at the Center for Adventist Research, each capturing a unique piece of our heritage.![]()
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