Suzanne Sutton Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 FREDERICK DOUGLASS Jane Marsh Parker wrote of her memories of 1843-1844 as the 8-year-old daughter of her Millerite father, Joseph Marsh. The family moved to Rochester, New York, in February 1844. Several years later, American abolitionist Frederich Douglass and his family moved there as well. By 1849 they were next-door neighbors. Living across the way, in sight of the Marsh and Douglass homes, was a young man, John Loughborough. This young man had been attending a Sunday church with Joseph Marsh for several years before deciding in 1852 to visit a Sabbathkeeping group that met just around the corner from the Marsh and Douglass homes. This small group, let by James and Ellen White, met in their home, which also served as a publishing house. At length, Joseph Marsh did not accept the Sabbbath message. Instead he vigorously debated early Seventh-day Adventist pioneers, eventually espousing what became known as "Age-to-Come Adventism." His daughter Jane became especially captivated by their neighbors the Douglasses, accepting their faith, and joining the Methodist Episcopal Church. Frederich Douglass, while presented with the Second Advent and Sabbath message, did not accept it and remained in the Methodist-Episcopalian faith. His daughter Rosetta Douglass Sprague, friend of Jane Marsh, became a Seventh-day Adventist in 1883 and an active member of the First Church of Seventh-day Adventists in Washington, D.C. John Loughborough, responding in 1852 to Ellen White's call to preach at age 20, became a pioneer evangelist and minister in the Seventh-day Adventist movement. He was the first to sell Adventist literature, pioneered work in California, served as president of several conferences, and served as treasurer of the General Conference. --adapted from the Adventist Review, October 22, 2009. Suzanne Quote
Stan Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 John Loughborough was 20 years old at the time.... wonder if we would support him today in the same way. Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com
GreatLakesGramma Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 Most of the early Adventist pioneers were young at the time. Quote Catherine God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26. "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." -- C. S. Lewis
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