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Adventist Heritage Loma Linda University Publications Loma Linda University TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works Adventist Heritage Loma Linda University Publications 7-1974 Adventist Heritage - Vol. 01, No. 2 Adventist Heritage, Inc. Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/advent-heritage Part of the History Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Adventist Heritage, Inc., "Adventist Heritage - Vol. 01, No. 2" (1974). Adventist Heritage. http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/advent-heritage/2 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Loma Linda University Publications at TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Adventist Heritage by an authorized administrator of TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A MAGAZINE of ADVENTIST HISTORY John Byington COVER PHOTO: John Byington, 1798-1887, a farmer-preacher from New York who became the first president of the General C0nference of Seventh":day Adventists c_AdventistWetitage -f > -.: 215 - l 2 84 '··-'·. •"'"" 30.; I ~I I 164 158 00 13 3 5 Oan1;u1 12 9 0 !JantZ.12 -'---4---== L.ombord.s 483 , 1~00 .. " .fi 1843 MILLERITE CHART EDITORS Jonathan M. Butler July, 1974 / Volume 1, Number 2 Union College Gary Land Published in cooperation with the -Division of Religion, Andrews University Loma Linda University Ronald L. Numbers Loma Linda University CONSULTING EDITORS Editor's Stump Godfrey T. Anderson 4 Loma Linda University Richard W. Schwarz Articles Andrews University ASSISTANT EDITORS John Byington of Bucks Bridge: 5 Wayne Judd The Pre-Adventist Years General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists by John O. Waller Department of Education Eric D. Anderson University of Chicago The World's End 14 by John Greenleaf Whittier MANAGING EDITOR Vern Carner Loma Linda University The Adventist "Medical Cadet Corps 1'8 ART & DESIGN EDITOR As Seen by Its Founder Bill Kirstein by Everett N. Dick Graphic Design Studio Orlando, Florida HMake Usa Name" 28 COPY EDITOR by Godfrey T. Anderson Mary Childs Loma Linda University Ellen White in Copenhagen 36 PHOTO EDITOR by Ron and Gerte Graybill Rosalie Anderson Thorn Loma Linda University William O. Worth: 43 PHOTOGRAPHER H. Eugene Hood Adventist Auto Pioneer Loma Linda University by George S. May CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Tribute David T. Arthur Aurora College Roy E. Branson Tribute to Robert E. Cleveland 54 Andrews University By Godfrey T. Anderson Rayond F. Cottrell Review and Herald Washington, D.C. Heirloom Roger G. Davis .. Mountain View College, Texas Reflections of a Pioneer: 55 Everett N. Dick Union College An Autobiographical'Letter of Stephen N. Haskell Maurice D. Hodgen by Donald R. McAdams Loma Linda University C. Mervyn Maxwell Bookmarks Andrews University Donald R. McAdams A People of Prophecy Andrews University 60 Wm. Frederick Norwood by Gary G. Land Loma Linda University Carlos Schwantes Ellen White and Jim Crow Walla Walla College 62 Eric D. Syrne by Eric D. Anderson Pacific Union College Myron F. Wehtje Marginal Notes 68 Atlantic Union College (I Adventist Heritage is published in January and July by Adventist Heritage, Incorporated, c/o Division of Religion, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California 92354. Post Office Box 341, Loma Linda, California 92354, in cooperation with the Division of • Editorial correspondence and manuscripts should be sent to: Adventist Heritage, c/o Religion at Loma Linda University. Third class postage paid at Loma Linda, California. History Department, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104. Copyright @ 1974 by Adventist Heritage, Incorporated. • Subscription rates: $2.50 a copy; $4.00 a year; $7.50 two years. • Adventist Heritage invites manuscripts. Each will be considered, but no responsibility ~ Subscription orders and change of address notices should be sent to: Adventist Heritage, will be assumed for unsolicited material. 3 Shortly before the East Kingston camp meeting, Charles Fitch and Apollos Hale designed the '1843 Chart.' This became the best known of the charts and it helped standardize interpretation of the prophetic symbols, beasts, and dates. wo BUILDERS - John Byington (cover) took her first automobile ride in one of Worth's T and William Worth - are featured in ((rapid delivery" vehicles. Mrs. White's recollec- this issue of Adventist Heritage. tion of the jaunt added to May's information on the Worth enterprise. Byington erected an Adventist church in Bucks Bridge, New York, in 1855, and later served as the Not intellectual or literary figures in early Ad- first Seventh-day Adventist General Conference ventism, both Byington and Worth are memorable president. as doers and builders. John Waller had little interest in Byington until • •• three years ago when he visited Bucks Bridge, the boyhood home of his wife's grandfather, Charles C. Lewis. Standing on the foundation stones of the old Adventist chapel, and finding the graves of two Byington daughters a few feet from the graves of his wife's great-grandparents, made him want to know more about the man. His research took him to musty histories of St. Lawrence County in the Newberry Library, Wayne Judd Eric D. Anderson Chicago, and to the archives of Byington's pre- Adventist Wesleyan Methodist church, in Marion, Two assistant editors serve on alternate issues of the Indiana. ((Once I got into the old Wesleyan news- journal. Eric Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in Recon- papers and began soaking up their uncompromis- struction history at the University of Chicago, and will ing antislavery spirit," he remarks, ((I was join the history department at Pacific Union College in thoroughly hooked." the fall of 1975. Wayne Judd is presently writing Waller finds Byington was a pastor of a Wes- secondary-level textbooks in religion. He will begin a 1eyan Methodist congregation in Lisbon, New Ph.D. program in. religious education in the fall, and York, and he evaluates the Adventist myth of his upon completing the degree will teach in the new involvement in the Underground Railroad. Most graduate program in religious education at Andrews important to the story, he uncovers Byington's University. abandonment of postmillennial Wesleyan Jonathan Butler Methodism for the premillennial worldview of Ad- ventism. William Worth was another builder in Seventh-day Adventism. In the 1890's and early Forthcoming in 1900's, Worth obtained patents on several pre- Henry Ford automobiles and numerous automo- c:Adventist CJlentage tive parts. George May came across Worth's career in Ben- THE LIFE AND LOVE OF ANNIE SMITH ton Harbor and Battle Creek while writing Michigan auto history. May received the Award of THE ~~ASCENSION ROBES" Merit of the American Association for State and AND OTHER MILLERITE FABLES Local History in 1970 for his two-volume Pictorial History of Michigan. His book on the origins of the MARCHING TO THE BEAT auto industry in Michigan will be published in the OF THE TEMPERANCE DR UM fall. Worth tinkered with several Worth-mobiles in PUBLISHING SECRETARY advance of the Big Four automakers, but with EXTRAORDINARY considerably less success. In 1902, Ellen White visited his Chicago Motor Vehicle Company and 4 The Pre- Adventist Years OF BUCKSB IDGE John o. Waller3J~ HE GRASS RIVER comes to a gentle bend at T the former village of Bucks Bridge, New York. Local tradition, with sturdy disdain of punctuation rules, has banished the apostrophe, though the place was named for a bridge thrown across by the earliest settler, Isaac Buck, who came out from Vermont in 1803. Most of the settlers, early and less-early, came to St. Lawrence County, New York State's far north, from somewhere in Vermont. The river flows under the present bridge, takes its bend, and continues past the vacant sites of former busy sawmills. There is not very much to see at ~~the Bridge" now - a few houses, some farms, a small burial ground, and one good old Methodist Episcopal chapel, b~ilt around 1837, no longer used weekly, .though the local residents - old timers who fellow- John and Catherine shiped there in happier days, or descendants of Byington (probably former members - hold a loving spring reunion one taken at the time he Sunday every year. served as General One who always attends likes to write about it: Conference President) ~~Thesinging was hallelujah, and the old organ really bounced, and the ~brung-from-home' flowers were de- lightful." Just across a small, now-surfaced road, once kept passable with planks, a few stones lie in intersecting rows among the grass and goldenrods, testifying that once a building stood there. These are all that is left of Bucks Bridge's ~~other church," the one that John Byington put up in 1855 for a company of fellow Saturday-Sabbathkeeping Adventists - either the first or the second church ever built by Seventh-day Adventists. (Battle Creek, Michigan, was erecting its John O. Waller is chairman of the English department at Andrews University. 5 ..•••Remaining foundation stones of the Bucks Bridge Advent meetinghouse Byington built in 1855 ~ Corner-stone of the Bucks Bridge Advent meeting- house, now at the entrance of the Canton Seventh-day Adventist Church first one at about the same time. Which was com- pleted first may never be known.) The Byington home stood near the two churches, on the river-side (the Adventist chapel side) of the road. John Byington, to become the first
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