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76961 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 …
76962 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 …
76963 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 …
76964 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:
76965 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 …
76966 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 …
76967 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 …
76968 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 …
76969 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 …
76970 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 …
76971 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:
76972 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:
76973 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 …
76974 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:
76975 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 .
76976 In Defense of the Faith, p. 358 (William Henry Branson)
Was Mrs. White Illiterate?
76977 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 …
76978 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 …
76979 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 …
76980 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.