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Emma Marie Thompson Anderson 譚爱瑪 (1865-1925) by Bruce W.N. Lo, 2011. Jacob Nelson Anderson and Emma Thompson-Anderson are the first commissioned missionaries sent to China by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They preached the Adventist message in China for 8 years from 1902 to 1909 before returning to the United States for health reasons.
- Early Life and Ministry
- Travel to and Early Ministry in China
- Fundraising in The United States
- Continued Mission Service in China
- Strategic 1907 Missionary Councils
- College Teacher and Later Life
Jacob Nelson Anderson was born January 27, 1867, in Swerborg, Denmark, the son of Niels (1827-1916) and Karen (1834-1906) Anderson.1 His parents emigrated to America when he was eighteen months old. They settled in Poy Sippi, Wisconsin, where his parents converted to Adventism in the 1870s due to the labors of J. G. Matteson.2 At the age of 16, he ...
The official vote by the Foreign Mission Board approving the Andersons’ call occurred on October 29, 1901, whereby Jacob was appointed as the superintendent of the China Mission, and together with his wife, Emma, received missionary credentials.13 They arrived during the Boxer Rebellion, which killed an estimated 240 missionaries, making their comi...
In April 1905 the early workers in China gathered for a meeting to better coordinate efforts. At this meeting they agreed that J. N. Anderson would represent the workers in China at the upcoming General Conference session. Others who attended included Drs. Arthur & Bertha Selmon, Eric Pilquist, Karrie Ericksen, and Charlotte Simpson. They furthermo...
Upon Anderson’s return to China, he went with W. C. Hankins and Keh Nga Pit to establish an Adventist missionary presence in Amoy (Xiamen). In November they opened a small chapel in a village about twenty-five miles southwest of the city. Pastor Keh and the Hankins turned out to be an effective evangelistic team, and they began to lay plans to open...
The year 1907 brought two major conferences that were turning points in the development of Adventism in China. In early February 1907 most of the early workers met in Shanghai for a meeting to strategize and organize the Adventist missionary work in China. W. W. Prescott from the General Conference met with them, along with E. H. Gates who arrived ...
After serving in China, Jacob taught in the department of Biblical languages and religion at Washington Missionary College from 1910 to 1915. From 1915 to 1924 he was professor of Greek, Hebrew and missions at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. While at Union College he attended the 1919 Bible Conference. He gave a series of presentations on the S...
Sep 14, 2022 · Early Life. Emma Thompson was born May 6, 1865, in Lone Rock Valley, Wisconsin, to Ozro (1839-1928) and Martha Elizabeth (1844-1912) Thompson. 1 She attended a country elementary school, and later a high school in Mauston, Wisconsin. At the age of 17, she began teaching at a public school and would continue teaching for the next five years.
Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has long been established as one of the major contributions to theories of nations and nationalism. Anderson located the rise of national identities within a long-evolving crisis of dynastic conceptions of identity, time, and space, and argued print-capitalism was the key cultural and economic force in the genesis of nations.
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Jul 19, 2016 · Larz Anderson II: There’s a little-known park overlooking the Ohio River from Golden Avenue in East Walnut Hills that is named for the Anderson family's second Larz (1845-1902). Larz II was one ...
It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. (Anderson 1983: 5–6) One of Anderson’s primary focuses is on the role of language and linguistics in the formation of imagined communities ...
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this exciting backdrop that the frst Chinese migrants came to Chicago in the 1870s. But unlike Chinese migrants in San Francisco who experienced explicit anti-Chinese hostility, the Chinese in Chicago lived largely under the radar of the public eye, as “the average Chicagoan was no more tolerant toward Chinese than anybody else in the nation.”
