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J.N. Loughborough Meets J.N. Andrews
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May 10  J.N. Loughborough Meets J.N. Andrews

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The law of  the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. Ps. 19:7.

Loughborough had been preaching as a Sundaykeeping Adventist for about three and one half years when he first met a preacher of the seventh-day variety. It was sell known in former Millerite circles that many of the shut-door types had fanatical tendencies, and people had told Loughborough that the group  he was about to meet not only kept Saturday for Sunday, but when "they get together" they "scream and yell, and have a great noisy fanatical demonstration."


He wasn't overly anxious to encounter such individuals, but a man named Orton of Rochester, New York, approached him, noting that "the seventh-day folks  are holding meetings at 124 Mount Hope Avenue" and that they should attend.


Loughborough at first declined the invitation. But, Orton responded, "you have a duty there. Some of your flock have joined the Sabbath Adventists, and you ought to get them out of this heresy. They will give you a chance to speak in their meeting. So get your texts ready, and you can show them in two minutes that the Sabbath has been abolished."


With that challenge ringing in his ears, Loughborough "got his texts together" and with several of his first-day Adventist friends attended the Sabbatarians' meetings.


The young preacher would never be the same. Not only were the gatherings absent of fanaticism and noisy demonstrations, but a minister by the name of J.N. Andrews took up the very texts on th law and the Sabbath that Loughborough had listd and explained each of them. Not only did Andrews treat the same texts, but, claims Loughborough, he did so in the same order. That was too much for him. J.N. Loughborough accepted the Sabbath in September 1852 and immediately began preaching for the Sabbatarian Adventists.


In later years he would pioneer the Seventh-day Adventist Church in California and England, serve as a pastor and administer in several parts of the United States, and publish the first history of the Seventh-day Adventists in 1892(The Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists, revised in 1905 as The Great Second Advent Movement).


Somewhere Ellen White noted that there is no end to the usefulness of persons who dedicate their life to God. Such was the case of J.N. Loughborough. And so it can be for each of our lives.

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In His teaching from nature, Christ was speaking of the things which His own hands had made, and which had qualities and powers that He Himself had imparted. In their original perfection all created things were an expression of the thought of God(COL, 18). 
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