Emerson Andrews (1806-1884) was born in Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts in 1806 to godly parents, James and Mercy Andrews. They were from English stock and were strict Puritans in faith and lifestyle. Although young Emerson was raised in the Congregational Church he was far from God in his teens and twenties.
Nevertheless, periodically, he experienced intense conviction, usually through his parents’ counsels and prayers but particularly through two unforgettable sermons delivered by the eccentric revivalist, Lorenzo Dow. Soon after this he was converted under the ministry of another revival preacher, Asahel Nettleton.
He was a very educated man formerly studying at Chesterfield Academy and, at the time of his conversion, at Plainfield Kimball Union Academy, in New Hampshire. In the spring of 1832 whilst studying further at Union College in Schenectady, New York, he was baptised by immersion in the Mohawk River. It was his convictions about the Bible’s teaching on water baptism that caused him to join the Baptist’s instead of the Congregationalists or Presbyterians.
He served brief pastorates at Lansingburg and Rome, New York. Then for thirty-five years he laboured at large, conducting over three hundred preaching missions in twenty eight states, Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe and numbering his converts at 40,000. Uncompromising in his stand on Baptism, most of his work was restricted to churches of the Baptist persuasion. A true revivalist!
First published 1872. 336 pages
Nevertheless, periodically, he experienced intense conviction, usually through his parents’ counsels and prayers but particularly through two unforgettable sermons delivered by the eccentric revivalist, Lorenzo Dow. Soon after this he was converted under the ministry of another revival preacher, Asahel Nettleton.
He was a very educated man formerly studying at Chesterfield Academy and, at the time of his conversion, at Plainfield Kimball Union Academy, in New Hampshire. In the spring of 1832 whilst studying further at Union College in Schenectady, New York, he was baptised by immersion in the Mohawk River. It was his convictions about the Bible’s teaching on water baptism that caused him to join the Baptist’s instead of the Congregationalists or Presbyterians.
He served brief pastorates at Lansingburg and Rome, New York. Then for thirty-five years he laboured at large, conducting over three hundred preaching missions in twenty eight states, Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe and numbering his converts at 40,000. Uncompromising in his stand on Baptism, most of his work was restricted to churches of the Baptist persuasion. A true revivalist!
First published 1872. 336 pages
