1895 "Prophecies Of Jesus" / JG Matteson Leather 1st edition Adventist Heritage

Description: This 1895 book titled "Prophecies Of Jesus" by J.G. Matteson is a rare and valuable addition to any collection. The leather bound 1st edition book was printed by the International Tract Society in the USA and features beautiful illustrations of Bible prophecies. The book is in its original form and was printed in English language. The book belongs to the category of Antiquarian & Collectible books. The book's topic is Bible prophecies, and it belongs to the Adventist Heritage book series. Matteson became a powerful preacher of the Advent message with a special emphasis on the love of God. He conducted revivals and established churches among the Scandinavians in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas.6 Scandinavians were a numerous immigrant group on the northwestern frontier. A Danish Adventist church was founded by Matteson in Poy Sippi. He was elected elder and granted a license from the church to preach. In Chicago the first Adventist church building – for a Norwegian speaking congregation - was built due to the success of Matteson’s revival meetings.7When Ellen White visited Scandinavia in the years 1886-1888, she had reason to be impressed by the rapidity of the process Matteson had launched in all three countries. Despite few workers with knowledge, a conference in each country had been organized, the colporteur work flourished, magazines were issued, and people were won for the Adventist message. In Stockholm alone, the membership rose from six to 60 in one winter of Matteson’s campaigns.27The first camp meeting in Europe, in Moss, Norway in 1887 was his initiative. The presence of Ellen and W. C. White, S. Haskell, B.L. Whitney, J. H. Waggoner, Robinson, and Boyd made this the first important Adventist meeting in Scandinavia. 28 Matteson’s health was not the best, and in the spring of 1888 he and his family returned to the USA where he held Bible schools in Chicago, was a traveling secretary, did extensive editorial work, and ended up the last three years of his life as a Bible teacher at Union College, Nebraska, where the Scandinavian American Adventists attended school. Some of Matteson’s students became future leaders in the church on both sides of the Atlantic, but some also left for foreign mission fields.29Matteson’s legacy is vast. Organizing the work in three Scandinavian countries, as well as planting numerous Scandinavian churches in the American Midwest from scratch, spreading the gospel of the love of Jesus through his writing and publishing, as well as teaching and public campaigns. Besides his widespread organizing of the Scandinavian Adventist churches, his legacy was also theological. The deeply evangelical, Christocentric focus of his preaching, coupled with a genuine interest in the saving of souls for Jesus, influenced the approach of Adventism in Scandinavia, not the least in Sweden. This focus would remain for most of the hundred plus years ahead.

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