George Storrs
George Storrs (born December 13, 1796 in Lebanon (New Hampshire) , † December 28 in Philadelphia 1879 ) was an American preacher.
Life
George Storrs was the son of an officer Constant Storrs and his wife Lucinda How. He joined the Methodist Church at age 19 and became a Church minister at age 28. A biography notes that "Storrs was a strong and capable man and a popular pastor in the Church during his tenure."
In 1837 he found a brochure by Henry Grew on a train ride , which represented the doctrine of conditioned immortality ( total death theory ) of humans and annihilationism . He studied this doctrine for three years and came to the conclusion that he could no longer serve this church because it was in contradiction to his new knowledge. In 1840 he resigned from the Methodist Church. Storrs became one of the co-founders of the Second Adventists and from 1843 published his own magazine with the title Bible Examiner . His studies of the condition of the dead flowed into the Advent movement . He also published a book on the subject titled Six Sermons .
His works eventually influenced Charles Taze Russell , who founded the Bible Students' Movement . Storrs was also often present at Russell's Bible study group in Allegheny , so the two of them worked closely together. When Storrs died on December 28, 1879, Russell gave the funeral speech. His death also had a special mention in the English Watchtower . Russell spoke of Storrs as "a partner, friend and mentor, a brother with special abilities."
Web links
- Biography from The Herald of Christ's Kingdom
- Bible Examiner (1843) from Google Books.
- Storrs Biography from Adventist Pioneer Library
- Storrs: Six Sermons .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of George Storrs . In: The Granite Monthly, a New Hampshire Magazine , July 1883, Vol. VI., No. 10, pp. 315-316 ( Wikisource )
- ↑ On the origins of the Bible Students . ( Memento of November 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Storrs, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lebanon (New Hampshire) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1879 |