Oct 23, 2019
Shiloh, NJ, August 7, 1871 Our social history is fascinating and constantly changing. This article in an 1871 Sabbath Recorder issue is an endearing account of one wedding anniversary 150 years ago. In the year 1844, Geo. R. Wheeler and Hannah, his wife, and nine children, came to America from Olney, England; landed in New York; and from there they came to the...
Sep 25, 2019
By: Kim Merchant At the 2018 General Conference, the Council on History requested volunteers to enter library records into the online catalog, CuadraSTAR. Playing on the catalog name, the Council on History named the group of volunteers the STAR Team. It turned out to be an apt name based on the volunteers’ enthusiasm, skill, and productivity. The team of 14...
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History The Council on History met in Janesville, WI, at the SDB Center the weekend of May 4-5, 2019. Council members Janet Thorngate (chair), Judy Parrish, Kim Merchant, Tim Lawton, and Elon Sinclair, as well as consultant Elizabeth Camenga and Director Nick Kersten, met to evaluate and organize the work of...
By John R. Morgan The title comes from an observation I made in an email to Janet Thorngate in which I enclosed a camera-shot of the handwritten note to “Dea. David Rogers” signed “Geo. B. Utter.” It was on the first of two blank pages in a bound volume of the entire first year of The Sabbath Recorder (52 issues! Volume I: June 13, 1844 – June 19, 1845)....
Reprinted from the Sabbath Recorder, May 2011. This Recorder reprint is focused on the conflicts between Sabbath convictions and our working lives. I suspect few topics strike such a personal nerve with the Recorder’s readers. Rare indeed is the SDB who has not had to make a hard decision about a job or activity because it falls on the Sabbath. These conflicts...
Mar 20, 2019
By Janet Thorngate, Chairman, SDB Council on History People sleuthing their family history often discover that in the process of building that endless genealogy chart, the quest for illusive details draws them deeper and deeper into an ancestor’s world. Suddenly they are “into history” (though they never “liked history”) and the name on the chart becomes a real...