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Josiah Litch: “The ideal meaning of each of the names of those seven churches, is descriptive of the real state of the church of Christ during the period which that church represents.”
Litch, Josiah. The Probability of the Second Coming of Christ About A.D. 1843 (David H. Ela, Boston, 1843), 121.
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Denis Kaiser, Associate Professor of Church History at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University and Research and Publication Editor at the Center for Adventist Research, was one of the five editors of The Oxford Handbook of Seventh-day Adventism (Oxford University Press, 2024). He authored Chapter 6, “Adventist Views of Inspiration and the Biblical Canon,” and co-authored Chapter 21, “Health and Medical Science.”
Chapter 6 “Adventist Views of Inspiration and the Biblical Canon.”
doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197502297.013.6
Chapter 21 “Health and Medical Science” (coauthor with Anne Collier-Freed).
doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197502297.013.21
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The Center for Adventist Research has the L. R. Conradi Collection (226).
Ludwig R. Conradi (or Louis R. Conradi; 1856 – 1939) was one of the leaders of European Adventism known for the controversy causing schism in the church, a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist and missionary, and in his last years a Seventh Day Baptist minister.
This collection consists of photocopies of typed and hand written correspondence to, by, and about Conradi, from 1885 until 1934. Portions of many photocopies are not legible. Between 1885 and 1890, most of the letters were written by W. C. White to Conradi. After 1890 the correspondence is mostly from Conradi to church leaders, including W. C. White, Ellen G. White, Ole A. Olsen, William A. Spicer, Arthur G. Daniells, and Leroy T. Nicola. The issues discussed cover a wide range of topics from finances to evangelism in connection with the development of the denomination’s work in Europe and other continents.
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Historical Fact: Alexander Gritz (1900–1944), an Adventist minister, served the Adventist Church in the West Russian and Ukrainian Union Conferences in the former Soviet Union and died as a martyr in a labor camp during Stalin’s repressions.
In May 1927, Alexander was ordained at the III All-Ukrainian Constituency Session of the Adventist Church held in Kyiv, becoming a licentiate minister in the Azov conference of the Ukrainian Union, and sent to Mariupol.
On June 4, 1928, Alexander Gritz married Olga Tarasenko. In September of 1936, Alexander was arrested like many other Adventists during the time of Stalin’s repressions. At the time of his arrest, he had three children (Vera, Alexander, and Lidiya), and his wife was pregnant with their fourth child. Before the police took him out, turning back to his wife, he said, “Name our baby Nadezhda (“hope” in Russian) if it is a girl.”
After months of trial, Alexander was sentenced to five years in a prison camp in Birobidzhan, Siberia. When he was brought with other prisoners to the railway station to board a freight train used for cattle transportation, his wife Olga came with a newborn baby wrapped in a blanket. She stood afar on the platform with twelve railways separating them, not allowed to come closer. In despair, she held the baby high and cried loudly the symbolic name of a newborn girl “Nadezhda! Nadezhda! Nadezhda!”
In the prison camp, Alexander continued to preach and organized a worship group with the inmates. Alexander refused to work on the Sabbath and was regularly punished for that. One of his punishments consisted of being taken outside in severe cold and having cold water poured on him, requiring him to deny his faith. One day, this punishment turned him into an ice block. The camp of prisoners was shocked by this cruelty. They acknowledged that a holy man died.
Stele, Galina. "Gritz, Alexander (1900–1944)." Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. May 23, 2024. Accessed January 30, 2025. encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=7JNR.
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