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76821 In Defense of the Faith, p. 355.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White claimed as being given by revelation regarding dress was the principles that should prevail. It is evident that she was seeking a style which she …
76822 In Defense of the Faith, p. 356.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White regarding the need of dress reform, and certain principles that should be adopted; yet it was the physicians and others at the sanitarium, as shown …
76823 In Defense of the Faith, p. 356.4 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White, it was impossible to devise any sort of healthful costume that would not be so far from the prevailing fashions as to arouse ridicule from the devotees …
76824 In Defense of the Faith, p. 357.2 (William Henry Branson)
Mrs. White, however, was not responsible for any trouble in families created by the reform dress for she distinctly cautioned her sisters against taking a course to which there was opposition on the part of their husbands:
76825 In Defense of the Faith, p. 357.4 (William Henry Branson)
But not all husbands were, as Mr. Canright intimates, opposed to the new costume recommended by Mrs. White. Here is the testimony of one husband:
76826 In Defense of the Faith, p. 357.6 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White from the first condemned as immodest, and the reform dress which was adopted. In a report of a meeting, in which he set forth the advantages of the reform …
76827 In Defense of the Faith, p. 358.2 (William Henry Branson)
In giving the history of the reform dress agitation, it should be recognized that good judgment was not always used by those who made the change. And no one more than Mrs. White deplored this fact. Thus she says:
76828 In Defense of the Faith, p. 358.4 (William Henry Branson)
The reader who desires to judge for himself as to the good sense manifested in Mrs. White’s advocacy of a health reform dress, is referred to a chapter entitled “The Reform Dress,” in Testimonies for the Church 1:521-525 .
76829 In Defense of the Faith, p. 358 (William Henry Branson)
Was Mrs. White Illiterate?
76830 In Defense of the Faith, p. 358.5 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White an illiterate fanatic as she is pictured by Mr. Canright? We answer: Ask anyone who has ever heard her speak or who has ever read her five large books …
76831 In Defense of the Faith, p. 359.2 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White did not have the advantage of a college education; neither did Abraham Lincoln, nor Professor Butler, president of the University of Missouri, who …
76832 In Defense of the Faith, p. 359.4 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White had. And besides this, those who were best acquainted with her life and work, and who are the closest students of her teachings, have no hesitancy in …
76833 In Defense of the Faith, p. 360.2 (William Henry Branson)
“There was a good attendance, including a large number of our most prominent people, at the lecture of Mrs. Ellen G. White, at the Tabernacle, last evening.
76834 In Defense of the Faith, p. 360.4 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White, branding her as a fanatic, a deceiver, an impostor, etc., this same man attended her funeral, and as he stood by her casket with his brother, B. J. Canright …
76835 In Defense of the Faith, p. 361.1 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White, much less to offer any eulogy of her life or character. In view of this, his spontaneous statement, “There’s a noble woman gone,” stands in striking contrast …
76836 In Defense of the Faith, p. 361.2 (William Henry Branson)
… . G. White, because for some time after the disappointment of 1844 they believed in the “shut-door” theory, that is, that probation for sinners had closed.
76837 In Defense of the Faith, p. 361.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White and her associates at one time believed thus we do not deny. Indeed, she herself frankly admits that fact.
76838 In Defense of the Faith, p. 361.5 (William Henry Branson)
… . G. White lay in state in the Tabernacle in Battle Creek, Michigan, and was on duty at the time Mr. Canright approached the casket. I heard the above words uttered …
76839 In Defense of the Faith, p. 363.2 (William Henry Branson)
… . G. White, whom you declare had the prophetic gift, also believed and taught for a time those same faulty views regarding the close of probation. How do you answer …
76840 In Defense of the Faith, p. 363.3 (William Henry Branson)
… Mrs. White believe, in common with other pioneers, the faulty view of the Second Advent doctrine regarding the close of probation and the salvation of sinners …