Week of Prayer Readings

Collection

Identifier: Collection 299

Staff Only

Content Description

Each year the Seventh-day Adventist church develops a series of readings designed to be read by the whole church during a designated week of prayer usually during the fall months in the northern hemisphere. The articles are typically written by notable figures within the leadership levels of the church such as A. T. Jones, A. G. Daniells, W. A. Spicer, J. L. McElhany, and W. H. Branson. The General Conference president usually wrote the lead article. The articles typically appeared in the general church magazine, the Review and Herald.

This collection consists of a series of week of prayer readings from 1886 to 1975, in English, with a sprinkling of readings in non-English languages.

Dates

1886 to 1975

Language of Materials

English, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, French, German, Latvian, Tamil (India), Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Russian

Conditions Governing Use

All users of this collection are required to complete the “Application to Use Unpublished Records,” and to observe the regulations specified in the “Patron Agreement” and “Researcher’s Code of Conduct.” All records in this collection are open and available for research. Citation for this collection:

Box___, folder___, Week of Prayer Readings Collection (coll 299), Center for Adventist Research, James White Library, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.

Extent

1 Boxes

Additional Description

Arrangement

The materials originally were contained in a series of twenty-five binders. While the original binders have been discarded, each folder in the collection corresponds with an original binder. The week of prayer readings are divided in English and Non-English Languages. The sermons are dated chronologically in the English material from 1886 through the 1975. The non-English materials follow a languages order and then by date within that language.