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78641 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 157.6 (James R. Nix)
… the Whites.
78642 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 158.3 (James R. Nix)
… the White home. On one occasion as many as thirty-five persons sat down to eat at their table, all at the expense of the generous host and hostess. There were no …
78643 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 158.4 (James R. Nix)
… James White practiced was that of donating his own clothing to help others. The first time we read of this was in Vermont, where the Whites had gone to attend …
78644 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 158.5 (James R. Nix)
… Ellen White took into their home to help train for work in the cause of God. This young man lived with them for two years. Concerning James White’s generosity …
78645 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 158.6 (James R. Nix)
“Elder White was very tender-hearted toward cases of need. I have seen him give no less than three overcoats in a single winter to poor preachers needing such …
78646 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.1 (James R. Nix)
Young workers who received such generous treatment at the hands of Elder White never forgot his kindness. Ten years after the death of his benefactor, L. R. Conradi wrote to Ellen White:
78647 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.2 (James R. Nix)
… G. White, Aug. 16, 1891.]
78648 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.3 (James R. Nix)
… , Elder White suggested the setting up of a fund for this purpose. Money was collected, and the first Benevolent Society was established, an organization that …
78649 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.5 (James R. Nix)
… , Elder White called for “fifty-dollar men” and “hundred-dollar men,” and before he died, he was asking for a number of “thousand-dollar men.” The names of James and Ellen …
78650 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.6 (James R. Nix)
“Elder White. .. sold his property in Michigan and Iowa at a sacrifice in 1875, and is prepared to show that he has donated more than $5,000 to the cause during the past two years.. . .
78651 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 159.7 (James R. Nix)
… Elder White at the same time is giving a hundred here, and a thousand there. He pledges himself to give to the cause during the year 1876 more than all these murmurers …
78652 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 160.1 (James R. Nix)
James White, like Job of old, sought out the cases of the poor and the needy. In 1874 drought and grasshoppers devastated Kansas, reducing many farmers to penury …
78653 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 160.2 (James R. Nix)
… . James White and Wife, (Battle Creek, Michigan, 1870), pp. 19, 20.]
78654 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 160.3 (James R. Nix)
… , James White rejoiced. When he saw excellent results obtained by Adventist preachers with gospel tents, James urged one conference after another to invest …
78655 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 160.4 (James R. Nix)
… ). Mrs. White said No, and James White said No. Sooner than allow that to happen, James indicated that he would sell his house in Oakland. [ Ibid. ] Obviously, this footnote …
78656 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 161.1 (James R. Nix)
At the time of the death of White, in 1881, George I. Butler, General Conference president, referred to the generosity of the fallen leader:
78657 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 161.3 (James R. Nix)
During the years, James White enjoyed the blessing promised to the openhanded, proving the truthfulness of the statement, “The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself” (Prov. 11:25).
78658 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 161.4 (James R. Nix)
… Elder White’s funeral, “Memory brushes the dimness, accumulating through the lapse of time, from numberless deeds of kindness received at his hand.” [Uriah …
78659 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 163.2 (James R. Nix)
… G. White manuscript written in Basel, Switzerland, Sept. 21, 1885).
78660 Passion, Purpose & Power, p. 164.3 (James R. Nix)
… G. White letter to Dr. J. H. Kellogg written April 15, 1895).At that time, approximately $25.00.