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1422 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.1 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“What I’m looking for is a small suitcase that’s really tough. I want it for carrying books.”

1423 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.2 (Herbert E. Douglass)

On the counter were two or three good-looking but rather flimsy bags that my father obviously considered unsatisfactory. Trying hard to please, the clerk …

1424 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.3 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“This is just what you need,” he said.

1425 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.4 (Herbert E. Douglass)

Dad gave the little suitcase a skeptical glance.

1426 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.5 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“I’ll show you just how tough it is.”

1427 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.6 (Herbert E. Douglass)

In one fluid series of motions the clerk closed the lid, dropped it on the floor, and stepped with his whole weight on the flat side of the hollow case.

1428 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.7 (Herbert E. Douglass)

It was an impressive demonstration. Dad bought the case.

1429 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.8 (Herbert E. Douglass)

That was nearly fifty years ago. As a small boy, excited to be on a shopping trip with Dad, I observed the incident with great interest. And I watched through the years as Dad carried that tough little suitcase packed with books wherever he went.

1430 What Ellen White has Meant to Me, p. 89.9 (Herbert E. Douglass)

The books were his Bible and the writings of Ellen G. White. Looking inside them, I discovered that they were heavily underlined in various colors, with cross references to Scripture and other Spirit of Prophecy writings.

1432 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 89.1 (Francis D. Nichol)

There were, indeed, times when Mrs. White, in the quiet seasons of the night, as she slept, received visions. She often began communications with such words as …

1433 Why I Believe in Mrs. E. G. White, p. 89.2 (Francis D. Nichol)

“Friday, March 20, 1896, I arose early, about half past three o’clock in the morning. While writing upon the fifteenth chapter of John suddenly a wonderful peace …

1436 Understanding Ellen White, p. 36.2 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

… , 1884, 89, 90; April 15, 1884, 249, 250; April 22, 1884, 265-267; May 6, 1884, 296, 297; May 27, 1884, 344-346; June 3, 1884, 361, 362.

1437 Understanding Ellen White, p. 89.1 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

James and Ellen White accepted the Sabbath in the late summer or early fall of 1846 through reading Joseph Bates’s tract The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual …

1438 Understanding Ellen White, p. 89.2 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

Later, Uriah Smith wrote a response to J. V. Himes, who charged that Ellen White only had “visions” that were convenient for her and supported her positions. Smith …

1439 Understanding Ellen White, p. 89.3 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

In 1858, she wrote to her close friends, the Haskells, rebuking them for insisting that eating pork was a violation of Leviticus 11:7: “I saw that your views concerning …

1440 Understanding Ellen White, p. 89.4 (Dr. Merlin Burt)

But light did come to Ellen White in her 1863 health vision, validating Haskell’s Bible study. In 1864, in her first published presentation of that vision …