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3201 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 237.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
… since James White wrote, in August, 1851, that “now the door is open almost everywhere,” we must conclude that from 1846 onward, a “large portion” of those added to …
3202 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 239.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
… believers.” James White’s estimate was the same. Now Mrs. White has a vision of this company of fifty thousand starting on that pathway, with apostates and backsliders …
3203 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 245.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
It was this counsel given to James White that prompted him to begin publishing the Present Truth in 1849, and to go on from that to ever larger publishing activities, which ultimately have gone “clear round the world.”
3204 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 253.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . G. White and her husband, James White, were led by Joseph Bates to believe that the time of Christ’s work in the most holy place in heaven would be seven years …
3205 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 254.4 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . That James and Ellen White were “penniless, absolutely poor,” is also true. But the bold declaration that the Whites greatly needed the influence that Bates …
3206 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 255.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… finances? James White first met him “in the year 1846.” It was in that year that Bates sat down to write his first pamphlet. He had no more than begun to write when …
3207 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 255.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
… than James White! More than one of his early letters refers to Bates’s poverty. For illustration: James White, writing from Port Gibson, New York, August 26, 1848 …
3208 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 258.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… Mrs. White’s words are being interpreted in terms of Bates’s theory, and further, that it is claimed James and Ellen White gave up this time theory “a few months …
3209 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 263 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White and Time Setting
3210 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!
3211 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 …
3212 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 …
3213 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:
3214 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:
3215 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:
3216 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 266.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… of James and Ellen White in particular.
3217 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 …
3218 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 …
3219 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 268.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
… that James White had helped to publish in 1850.
3220 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.”