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3221 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 287.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… by James White in The Review and Herald, January, 1851, no. 4, p. 31. He says there: “THE CHART.—It is now ready. We think the brethren will be much pleased with it, and that …
3222 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 289.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… to James White:
3223 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 289 (Francis D. Nichol)
What James White’s Statement Reveals
3224 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 289.7 (Francis D. Nichol)
… by James White supports the conclusion we have already reached, that there were those, beginning with 1845, who held the view that Mrs. White is alleged to have …
3225 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 291.4 (Francis D. Nichol)
… —Mrs. White, James White, and Joseph Bates—were living. Though it is true that Mrs. White rarely commented on explanations offered concerning her visions, it …
3226 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 292.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
… Mrs. White, then James White would have had much clearer light on this mystic number than he gives evidence of having. As late as 1860 he confessed to great ignorance …
3227 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 292.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… why James White, when republishing the vision a month later, should remove the “(666).” He confessed he did not know; why not permit his loyal colaborer, Bates, to …
3228 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 292.3 (Francis D. Nichol)
… . Mrs. White first wrote out the vision. Then James White evidently copied it and sent the copy to Elder Bates by mail. We have neither of these copies. Bates much …
3229 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 293.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White states that he was responsible for one error that appeared in the vision as printed in Bates’s broadside. He explains that this resulted from …
3230 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 322.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… from James White’s approval that Mrs. White approved. Mrs. White’s silence proves nothing. Only rarely did she make a statement regarding the accuracy or …
3231 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 350.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White declares: “Mrs. W. has in two visions been shown something in regard to the time of the commencement of the Sabbath. The first was as early as 1847, at …
3232 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 351.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… Mrs. James White, who accepted it. Bates, who had been a sea captain, concluded that the day begins at 6 P.M. James White, who wrote an extended account of the matter …
3233 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 351.4 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White explains that Bates “was very decided upon the six o’clock time. His decided stand upon the question, and respect for his years, and his godly life …
3234 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 351.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
James White also explains Mrs. White’s connection with the matter in its earliest stages:
3235 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 351.7 (Francis D. Nichol)
In 1855 James White wrote a short editorial for the Review and Herald, entitled, “Time of the Sabbath,” from which we quote:
3236 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 352.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
… which James White refers, and which cogently and Scripturally presents the case in behalf of sunset as the time for beginning the Sabbath. Andrews follows …
3237 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 352.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
In his retrospective 1868 article, from which we have already quoted, James White refers to Andrews’ article, and explains that it appeared in the Review, Dec. 4, 1855. Then he adds:
3238 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 353.1 (Francis D. Nichol)
Mrs. White again comes into the picture, as James White continues with his 1868 account of the 1855 conference at Battle Creek:
3239 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 353.5 (Francis D. Nichol)
… , as James White concludes his narrative in the Review and Herald in 1868:
3240 Ellen G. White and Her Critics, p. 354.2 (Francis D. Nichol)
In the light of this historical record and James White’s answer to the question of why Mrs. White did not have her vision earlier, we believe the charge quite largely disappears.