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4041 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 59.3 (Ellen G. White Estate)
James White’s illness had seriously delayed Mrs. White’s writing plans, but on January 22, 1867, the same month in which Lay and Smith had issued the call for …
4042 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 59.10 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… husband. James and Ellen White had been absent from Battle Creek since mid-December. They had stayed first with the Root family in Wright, and at the time the …
4043 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 59.11 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… proposed,” James White writes, “that we conduct the morning service and she would the afternoon.” It seems likely that the “important writing” referred to was …
4044 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 60.1 (Ellen G. White Estate)
James and Ellen White returned to Battle Creek on March 13, 1867, and must certainly have had opportunity then to get information about how things were moving at the Institute. Now she began to have misgivings about the situation.
4045 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 60.4 (Ellen G. White Estate)
The annual General Conference Session convened in Battle Creek on May 14, 1867. James White was present that afternoon when the meeting opened, a meeting at which the following action was taken:
4046 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 60.6 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… time James White would most likely have known of the action endorsing the general plan for enlargement. He excused himself from the meeting on that day on …
4047 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.5 (Ellen G. White Estate)
James White and other church leaders had been trying to educate the local churches concerning their responsibilities in Systematic Benevolence. The …
4048 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.6 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… that James White’s actions were somehow irrational in tearing down the incomplete building and the suggestion that he might have been mentally unbalanced …
4049 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.7 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… to James White proposing to buy some property which White had offered to the Institute. In his letter, Walker stated, “We have commenced the new building and …
4050 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.8 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… Sister White and yourself can feel to work for the Institute as you did at its commencement.—E. S. Walker to James White, Sept. 24, 1867.
4051 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.13 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… not James White’s alone.
4052 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.14 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… unanimous. James White most certainly did not act independently and arbitrarily.
4053 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 61.15 (Ellen G. White Estate)
And there may very well have been reasons not easily detected by all which motivated James and Ellen White in their attitude toward premature enlargement. Note the following reference to the experience, written by Ellen White in 1903:
4054 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 62.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… that James White’s actions demonstrate “erratic” behavior.
4055 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 62.3 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… , 1868, James White and G. W. Amadon were elected to the Board of Directors. J. P. Kellogg and N. N. Lunt were not re-elected. Thus in June, when James White announced an …
4056 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 62.8 (Ellen G. White Estate)
4. Shown that James White’s behavior concerning the 1867 building was not erratic or independent, but that he had acted as a member of the Board of Directors. (The book does mention that he had the concurrence of at least two board members.)
4057 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 62.9 (Ellen G. White Estate)
5. Shown that James White’s call for additional funds was not so “audacious” when it is noted that the money was to be raised in stages.
4058 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 62 (Ellen G. White Estate)
James and Ellen White Stand in Support
4059 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 63.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… Directors, James White assures Adventists everywhere that investments in the Institute are safe. Prophetess of Health on page 117 attributes a decline …
4060 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 63.6 (Ellen G. White Estate)
James White stepped in as editor of the Reformer, steered it away from all extremes, the Reformer picked up steam, and, sure enough, as Prophetess of Health notes …