S. N. Haskell — Adventist Pioneer, Evangelist, Missionary, and Editor
By Gerald Wheeler
Any real future as a church leader may have seemed highly improbably for Stephen Haskell when, at the age of 17 to honor the request of his dying employer, Haskell married Mary Howe — a woman 21 years his senior and a hopeless invalid — a decision that might have destroyed his future. Yet he would go on to make substantial contributions to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, shaping its structure and outreach for more than half a century. Haskell was a self-made man in the truest sense of the word.
Couched in the social, political, economic, and religious culture of the day, you will find a picture of Haskell as a formidable force in the early Adventist Church. In early manhood, he recognized the call of God and he responded to that call with all his heart, particularly giving himself to the study of God’s Word. Through the years, he grew with the Adventist movement, serving as “preacher, organizer, executive, author, publisher, world traveler; but above all as a leader of the lay forces of the church in literature, correspondence, and personal missionary work.” Ultimately, he led hundreds, if not thousands, to Jesus Christ.
As Haskell taught throughout his life, Adventism must never forget that the Word of God is central to its mission — and His kingdom is its goal. The Word must retain its primacy. Above any historical or doctrinal tradition, Scripture must always be first. If Haskell were alive today, this would still be his overriding theme. And it must remain the focus of the church he helped pioneer.
Hardbound, 384 pages.
Contents:
I. Young Bridegroom
II. Son of New England
III. Childhood Influences
IV. A Product of New England
V. Puritan Culture
VI. A Strong-Willed Personaliry
VII. Innovative Leader
VIII. Distributing the Printed Word
IX. Creating an Educated Church
X. Haskell Goes Abroad
XI. A Most Frightening World
XII. Aroud-the-World Survey
XIII. Mary Haskell in California
XIV. The Bible As the Voice of God
XV. Death of Mary Haskell
XVI. Africa Again
XVII. Back Down Under
XVIII. Proposing to Prophet
XIX. Unholy Holiness
XX. Haskell Visits the American South
XXI. A Struggle to Reorganize the Church
XXII. Urban Evangelism
XXIII. Battle Over Inspiration
XXIV. Book Author
XXV. Nashville, Tennessee
XXVI. The Struggle for Independent Ministries
XXVII. Transformations in California
XXVIII. Temperance Struggle in Maine
XXIX. Death of Ellen G. White
XXX. Twentieth Century Unlimited
XXXI. Last Days
XXXII. New England Flint With a Heart of Gold
