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ONE OF rnE onnEsr PREACHERS.
Rev. w. w. Andrews, Head of tho catho-
lie Apostolic Church.

lie APOSTOLIC Nhufch'
The head of the Catholic Apostolic
church in this country, the Rev, w, w.
Andrews of Wethersheld, is one of the
Oldest and most venerable clergymen
of Connecticut He was graduated
from Yale college sixty-five years ago
in the class with Bishop William In
graham Kip President Noah Porter
of Yale was also a classmate of the
aged representative of the Apostolic
church. MIR. Andrews was in the class
ahead of Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky
and OF Prof. Edward Elbridge Sails
bury and George e. Day Of Yale, two
Of the Oldest members of the university
faculty.
Mr.. Andrews who Is now past eighty
five years of age, was born in Windham
in this state, His father was the Rev.
William Andrews, clergyman of
marked ability and distinction in his
day. There were six sons in the fam
lily. Three of them, Mr.. Andrews of
Wethersfield, Rev. Samuel j. Andrews
of Hartford, pastor of the Catholic
Apostolic church there, and DR.. II. l..
Andrews of Iowa, still remain. They
are lineal descendants of the Rev. Will
liam Andrews, one of the founders of
the New Haven colony, who came to
this country with Governor Eaton and
the first pastor in New Haven, the Rev.
John Davenport.
Three years after his graduation at
Yale Mr.. Andrews became the pastor
of the Congregational church In Kent,
in this state, where he remained for
fifteen years. But. it was Immediately
after his graduation that his attention
was arrested by a series of spiritual
manifestations which had begun in
Scotland the year before, and were
deeply stirring the religious world
throughout Great Britain. He studied
the manifestations thoroughly, and
compared them, as far as he could at
that time, with the teachings of the
church in the Apostolic age.
The new movement in Kirk Of Scot
land appealed to his interest and con-
victions. He felt that it was not
heretical movement, for the great doc
trines of the orthodox faith were held
by it's advocates. 1t was not fanatieal,
for it was accompanied with goodness
of life and reverence for the ordinances
of the church. From the first he had
strong presentment that he should find
the movement supernatural work of
God to prepare the church for the sec
ond advent of it's founder. But Mr..
Andrews was in no communication
with the leaders of the movement, and
knew no one for years who believed in
it.
1t was not until 1S43 that he was
able to visit Scotland and learn for
himself the workings of the new church
system. He met its principal minis
ters, and became convinced of the
soundness and authenticity of the cause
which they represented. He saw less,
however, of the supernatural than he
had looked for. but found the practi-
cal application of Christianity to every
day life. In 1S49 he resigned his pas
toral charge at Kent, and removed to
Noribund, N. Y, and became pastor
of the first flock in the United States
in communion with the Restored Apos-
ties. This small church was in st.
Lawrence county, and Mr.. Andrews re-
NAMED there a pastor for eight years.
At the end of that time he gave up all
pastoral work to labor as an evangelist
in the interest of the restored faith in
the United States and Canada.
He has crossed the Atlantic number
of times in behalf of the new church.
and has been an apostle indeed of the
faith that was held in the primitive
church. Mr.. Andrews is a picturesque
figure in the religious life Of Connecti-
cut. He is is still one of the most de-
lightful of preachers, and is listened to
with rapt interest whenever he declares
his message from the pulpit Mr.. An
drews has been twice married. His first
wife was Miss Mary Ann Given of Fish
kill, N. Y. The Rev. William G. An
drews, rector of the Episcopal church
| in Guilford, Conn, is the only surviv-
| ing fruit of that marriage The sec
ond wife of Mr.. Andrews, who is still
living. was Miss Elizabeth Williams Of
| Wethersfeld, niece of Chief Justice
Williams of Connecticut.
There are three children by this mar
riage--the Misses Mary and Elizabeth
Andrews, and Professor Charles Nc
Lean Andrews of Bryn Mawr seminary.
| Mr. James P. Andrews, reporter of the
Connecticut supreme court, is nephew
of the noted clergyman, who has spent
nearly fifty years of his life in pro-
noting the interests of the CATHOLIC
| Apostolic church in this country.