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2401 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 165.7 (Arthur Lacey White)
… the Whites. A. O. Burrill was holding evangelistic tent meetings there. James was glad that he had given word that he and his wife would drive over, for it would …
2402 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 166.4 (Arthur Lacey White)
… Ellen White did that day was to write to the children in California of the experience of the past two weeks and of the meeting she and James had with Dr. Kellogg …
2403 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 167.3 (Arthur Lacey White)
As the new week dawned they were looking forward to more labor in the field. The Review of August 2 carried the following back-page note signed by both James and Ellen White:
2404 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 167.5 (Arthur Lacey White)
But James and Ellen were not at these meetings. Instead, the next issue of the Review carried the notice of James White’s death.
2405 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 168.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
… James White. These were his friends, those with whom he had worked, and members of the church he had pastored. They had come knowing that James White, critically …
2406 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 168.2 (Arthur Lacey White)
… came: James White was dead. The people were stunned.
2407 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 170.5 (Arthur Lacey White)
Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who attended James White through this week, gave an account of the case in the Review :
2408 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 171.4 (Arthur Lacey White)
… , as James White was inclined to sleep. His pulse was slightly irregular. Dr. Kellogg administered “strong stimulants,” and Ellen White and a number of special …
2409 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 173.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
… . C. White and his wife, Mary, were across the continent, almost a week’s travel time away. James’s brother John, for many years a presiding elder of the Methodist …
2410 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 173.2 (Arthur Lacey White)
The funeral was set for Sabbath afternoon, just a week after James’s death. Through the week Ellen White’s health and strength dipped to an all-time low. John White, coming on Friday and finding her confined to her bed, said:
2411 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 174 (Arthur Lacey White)
James White’s Funeral
2412 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 174.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
On Sabbath afternoon, August 13, some 2,500 Seventh-day Adventists and Battle Creek townspeople assembled in the Tabernacle for the funeral of James White. Even though very ill, Ellen attended. She recounted:
2413 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 177.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
… funeral. James’s brother John was delighted with the place, but as for Ellen, she declared:
2414 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 177.3 (Arthur Lacey White)
James White was known quite well across the land, not only as one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church—a church that had grown to seventeen thousand …
2415 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 178.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
… to James White in the August 8 issue of the Battle Creek Daily Journal, reporting his death and presenting a life sketch. The August 15 issue carried the report …
2416 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 179.2 (Arthur Lacey White)
… . C. White was essential, as well. In another statement, Butler wrote of James White that he was a natural leader with the courage of a lion, yet manifesting the …
2417 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 179.5 (Arthur Lacey White)
… of James White’s death came close to being just that for Ellen, also. When on Friday evening Dr. Kellogg advised her that James White was failing fast, she had …
2418 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 182.5 (Arthur Lacey White)
Willie had remained in Battle Creek to work with Edson in taking care of the financial affairs relating to James White’s estate. To him she wrote on September 12:
2419 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 188.4 (Arthur Lacey White)
This new man had become known to church leaders back in early June, on a Sabbath morning at the Spring Arbor camp meeting. James White, in the Review, wrote of it:
2420 Ellen G. White: The Lonely Years: 1876-1891 (vol. 3), p. 194.1 (Arthur Lacey White)
… Ellen White. It was a full year after James White’s death in early August, 1881, before she was sufficiently recovered from physical prostration, grief, and …