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76801 In Defense of the Faith, p. 345.1 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White will be seen not to have been intended as her prediction. It is a statement of the thoughts of others, as expressing their feelings at that time. Here …
76802 In Defense of the Faith, p. 346.1 (William Henry Branson)
Thus it is seen that Mrs. White was simply expressing the fears of others as to what the outcome of the Civil War might be, rather than predicting that it would surely be so.
76803 In Defense of the Faith, p. 347.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White in these words:
76804 In Defense of the Faith, p. 347.4 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White’s books and from which Mr. Canright has extracted the above sentence, can hardly be said to be a prediction. It was written during an early period …
76805 In Defense of the Faith, p. 348.4 (William Henry Branson)
Here again the context shows that this statement quoted by Mr. Canright is expressive merely of the view-point of other nations, and is not a prediction by Mrs. White at all:
76806 In Defense of the Faith, p. 349.3 (William Henry Branson)
Instead of predicting final failure for the North in the Civil War, Mrs., White clearly intimated when and by what means the tide of victory would be turned. Here it is in this same chapter:
76807 In Defense of the Faith, p. 350.3 (William Henry Branson)
In an attempt to arouse patriotic indignation against Mrs. White, Mr. Canright quotes one other isolated sentence from an article on “The Rebellion.” This perversion of her meaning and misrepresentation of her loyalty should be noticed:
76808 In Defense of the Faith, p. 350.5 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White was here referring to blood that had, been needlessly shed by the mismanagement of certain men in the Northern Army who were in sympathy with slavery …
76809 In Defense of the Faith, p. 351.2 (William Henry Branson)
Again Mr. Canright quotes from Mrs. White: “‘The nations are now getting angry.’ Early Writings, 29 .” He then remarks: “That was thirty-eight years ago. It takes, a long time for them to get fighting mad.”— Seventh day Adventism Renounced, p. 146.
76810 In Defense of the Faith, p. 351.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White, was the one who made a mistake and figured things out wrongly.
76811 In Defense of the Faith, p. 351.4 (William Henry Branson)
“One of the worst blunders Mrs. White ever made,” says Mr. Canright, “was the move she made on dress.”— Ibid ., p. 149.
76812 In Defense of the Faith, p. 351.5 (William Henry Branson)
… , Mrs. White, like some other reformers, advocated a reform dress for women. She urged that women’s dresses should “clear the filth of the streets” at least an inch …
76813 In Defense of the Faith, p. 352.1 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White and other reformers of her day advocated that the skirts should stop. And today a modest woman can go about the streets with her “dress cut halfway …
76814 In Defense of the Faith, p. 352.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White, out of their setting, thus: “God would not have His people adopt the so-called reform dress” ( Testimonies for the Church 1:421 ), and a statement written …
76815 In Defense of the Faith, p. 353.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White had spent some time at Dr. Jackson’s Home, Dansville, New York. Here a short dress with pants was worn, and she fell in with the idea, and soon had a vision …
76816 In Defense of the Faith, p. 353.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White. The one referred to thus is what was known as the “American costume.” In this costume the dress was very short, and the pants worn made the wearer look …
76817 In Defense of the Faith, p. 353.4 (William Henry Branson)
That Mrs. White was consistent in condemning this, even while recommending another style of “reform dress,” is indicated by the following quotation from a report of meetings written by James White:
76818 In Defense of the Faith, p. 353.5 (William Henry Branson)
… , Mrs. White has taken the opportunity to explain and harmonize her Testimonies on the dress question, showing the difference between the reform dress and …
76819 In Defense of the Faith, p. 353.6 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White’s consistent attitude in condemning the one while recommending a better, yet he sets out as an apparent contradiction two statements, one referring …
76820 In Defense of the Faith, p. 354.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White’s change of mind-though in fact there was no change-is that she adopted a style that she saw at the “Home” in Dansville. We are fortunate in having in …