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1601 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 205.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

James and Ellen White faced difficult times in Paris. She wrote of it: We suffered many privations.... We were willing to live cheaply that the paper might be sustained …

1602 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 205.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

… of James White and Ellen G. White (1880), 278 .

1603 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 205.4 (Arthur Lacey White)

… Vermont. James and Ellen had received a special invitation to attend a conference at Waterbury, Vermont. In spite of the fact that it was midwinter, they started …

1604 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 205.5 (Arthur Lacey White)

… against James White in which many joined, even the venerable Joseph Bates. It was based on the opinion that the Whites had too good a horse, and as James had been …

1605 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 206.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

One discouraging episode followed another. Severe colds that took hold of him on the journey to and from Waterbury settled in James’s lungs. Of the result wrote Ellen White:

1606 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 207.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

The next week the Review carried on its back page a message from James White concerning the paper:

1607 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 208.5 (Arthur Lacey White)

In The Review and Herald, August 19, 1851, James White, with the message of the vision of June 21 ringing in his ears, published a well-reasoned article entitled “Our Present Work,” in which he dealt firmly with the time-setting issue:

1608 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 210.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… Ellen White, and James White’s clear-cut statement, Joseph Bates and others who had taken up the time message dropped it in the summer of 1851. It was considered …

1609 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 211.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

When James White began to publish the Present Truth in 1849 the reading audience he addressed was limited to those who had been in the first and second angels …

1610 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 211.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

… that James White recognized as offering a door “open almost everywhere to present the truth,” a time when, as he said, “many are prepared to read the publications …

1611 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 211.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

… prejudice. James White cautiously refrained from publishing the visions in the thirteen issues of volume 1 of the combined journal issued at Paris, Maine …

1612 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 213.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… by James White in a word to the “little flock ” was the source, from which she left out “a portion.”]— The Review and Herald, Extra, July 21, 1851 .

1613 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 214.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

James White was less optimistic about its early issuance. In a postscript he noted:

1614 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 214.6 (Arthur Lacey White)

As James White closed up volume 1 of the Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, in Paris, Maine, he suggested that it would be well to find a more central place …

1615 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 215.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

… the Whites’ 2-year-old Edson who had been in her care. Within days the Whites found a house, borrowed furniture from fellow believers, and set up housekeeping …

1616 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 216.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… by James White, and in James’s and Ellen’s correspondence, another feature stands out, namely, the number of believers who came together for these conferences …

1617 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 216.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

… , Massachusetts, James and Ellen White were met by his work.

1618 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 218.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

James White reported November 11 in his general letter that “at Washington we met Brother Smith, hard, hard, full of errors.” “It was a battle.... Sunday, Brother Smith …

1619 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 219.4 (Arthur Lacey White)

The next conference was held at the home of Washington Morse, at Bethel, Vermont. “We anticipated many trials at this meeting,” wrote James White, “but were happily disappointed.” He explained:

1620 Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1), p. 221.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… and James White preached. Sunday morning, before the preaching, Mrs. Butler confessed that she had been wrong. Butler himself “talked very well,” wrote Ellen …