''Insight'' , successor to The Youth's Instructor, was a weekly magazine designed for
Seventh-day Adventist
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
young people, published from 1970-2017 by
Review and Herald.
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entry It was described as one of the "most important" Adventist magazines.
History and profile
The predecessor magazine, known as ''The Youth's Instructor,'' was established in 1852 by
James White, husband of
Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American woman author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she wa ...
. It was distributed primarily through the
Sabbath schools.
[''Dictionary'', p241]
Under the editorship of Lora E. Clement in the early-mid 1900s, the circulation increased from about 25,000 to 50,000.
[''Dictionary'', p65]
''The Youth's Instructor'' was replaced by ''Insight'' in 1970.
The headquarters of ''Insight'' was in
Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown is a city in Washington County, Maryland,
United States and the county seat of Washington County. The population of Hagerstown city proper at the 2020 census was 43,527, and the population of the Hagerstown metropolitan area (exten ...
.
Editors of The Youth's Instructor (selected)
* 1852: James White
* 1869–1871:
Goodloe Harper Bell[''Dictionary'', p40]
* 1923–1952: Lora E. Clement (who lived from 1890 to 1958)
* 1952-1970: Walter Crandall
Editors of Insight (selected)
* F. Donald Yost (associate editors: Pat Horning, Chuck Scriven)
*Roland Hegsted, acting editor
* Mike Jones
*1986: Chris Blake
*1993: Lori Peckham
*2009: Dwain Esmond
*2013: Omar Miranda
Notable contributor to The Youth's Instructor
*
Edmund C. Jaeger, renowned naturalist and author (121 articles from 1908 to 1922)
University of California, Riverside, Science Library
See also
*
List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
This is a list of periodicals published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church or by its church members. They include both official and unofficial publications relating to Seventh-day Adventism. Magazines which are only available on the internet are ...
References
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External links
Official website* Archives:
**
The Youth's Instructor' from Adventist Archives (
DjVu and
PDF formats)
*
Cover story archives from 2006 onwards
Weekly magazines published in the United States
English-language magazines
Magazines established in 1970
Magazines published in Maryland
Magazines established in 1852
Seventh-day Adventist magazines published in the United States
1852 establishments in the United States