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3201 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 263.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
And now what of James White and the theory? What is the evidence submitted to prove that he thus believed? None!
3202 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 263.6 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . Yet James White, who is alleged to have believed the theory, was the editor! And the theory dealt with the most momentous theme imaginable! Not only did he not …
3203 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 264.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White made one definite statement on the theory, in the The Review and Herald, August 19, 1851. His editorial, entitled “Our Present Work,” is long, and is devoted …
3204 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 264.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White sets forth six reasons against the seven-year theory. We abridge them as follows:
3205 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 265.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
… to James White’s summarization, in the paragraph that follows immediately after his listing of the six reasons against the theory:
3206 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 265.8 (Francis D. Nichol)
We can better understand why James White made only one statement of his position on this theory, when we read the brief report entitled “Oswego [N.Y.] Conference.” A paragraph that tells of the “principal subjects presented,” says:
3207 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 266.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… of James and Ellen White in particular.
3208 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 267.13 (Francis D. Nichol)
… not. James White believed in the shut door, but refused to believe in the seven-year theory. Hence the alleged abandonment of one did not require the abandonment …
3209 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 268.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… that James White suddenly changed his view on the shut-door in the summer of 1851. Nor have the critics even attempted to provide proof. The evidence is clear …
3210 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 268.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
… that James White had helped to publish in 1850.
3211 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 272.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
This publishers’ preface is followed immediately by the preface which James White wrote in “August, 1851” for Experience and Views. The publishers entitled it “Preface to First Edition.”
3212 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 273.6 (Francis D. Nichol)
… reprints James White’s preface to Experience and Views, 1851, under the title, “Preface to the First Edition.” This is false, continue the critics. The first edition …
3213 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 274.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . Hence James White’s preface to the 1851 edition could only be decribed by them as “Preface to first edition.” And all of this “first edition” is faithfully reprinted …
3214 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 274.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
… signed “James White.” In this tract, as has been elsewhere noted, are two of Mrs. White’s visions and a letter of hers to Eli Curtis, which occupy about eight pages …
3215 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 277.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… was James White, who is supposed to have set out, long before, on a campaign to suppress even the mention of the tract!
3216 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 277.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… by James White or by other church leaders through the years to suppress early documents containing Mrs. White’s writings. It is a fact, however, that some of …
3217 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 280.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… by James White on a tour he made in New York State. He speaks of meeting, among others, an Elder Jesse Thompson, and adds:
3218 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 280.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . But James White is supposed to have abandoned, suddenly, all shut-door belief right at this time, and that is given as the reason why certain deletions were …
3219 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 280.4 (Francis D. Nichol)
b. James and Ellen White are pictured as having done such a thorough job of eliminating all traces of evidence that they once held the shut-door view that they …
3220 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 287.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… by James White and certain others as the “Image Beast,” because it enforces the worship of the image to the first beast. He and others also thought for a short …