Ellen G. White Writings

1 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 219.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… John Calvin would become one of the ablest and most honored defenders of the church. But a ray of divine light penetrated even within the walls of scholasticism …

2 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 220.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… of Calvin's, who had joined the reformers, was in Paris. The two kinsmen often met, and discussed together the matters that were disturbing Christendom. “There …

3 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 220.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… struggles, Calvin, chancing one day to visit one of the public squares, witnessed there the burning of a heretic. He was filled with wonder at the expression …

4 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 221.2 (Ellen Gould White)

Calvin had been educated for the priesthood. When only twelve years of age he had been appointed to the chaplaincy of a small church, and his head had been shorn …

5 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 221.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… did Calvin enter upon his work, and his words were as the dew falling to refresh the earth. He had left Paris, and was now in a provincial town under the protection …

6 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 222.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… Romanism. Calvin, though an able combatant in the fields of theological controversy, had a higher mission to accomplish than that of these noisy schoolmen …

7 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 223.2 (Ellen Gould White)

Calvin was still in Paris, preparing himself by study, meditation, and prayer, for his future labors, and continuing to spread the light. At last, however, suspicion …

8 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 223.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… garden, Calvin opened the words of eternal life to those who desired to listen. After a time, as the number of hearers increased, it was thought safer to assemble …

9 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 224.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… more Calvin returned to Paris. He could not even yet relinquish the hope that France as a nation would accept the Reformation. But he found almost every door …

10 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 233.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… , when Calvin, after various wanderings and vicissitudes, entered its gates. Returning from a last visit to his birthplace, he was on his way to Basel, when, finding …

11 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 233.3 (Ellen Gould White)

… in Calvin one whom he could unite with himself in this work. In the name of God he solemnly adjured the young evangelist to remain and labor here. Calvin drew …

12 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 236.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… years, Calvin labored at Geneva; first to establish there a church adhering to the morality of the Bible, and then for the advancement of the Reformation throughout …

13 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 236.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… of Calvin became a refuge for the hunted reformers of all Western Europe. Fleeing from the awful tempests that continued for centuries, the fugitives came …

14 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 303.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… Melancthon. Calvin bids Christians “not to hesitate, ardently desiring the day of Christ's coming as of all events most auspicious;” and declares that “the …

15 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 364.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… and Calvin had spread the truths of the Reformation, Gaussen preached the message of the second advent. While a student at school, Gaussen had encountered …

16 The Great Controversy, p. 218.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… of Calvin, b. 2, ch. 16. He was about to testify to his faith in the presence of the King of kings and the witnessing universe, and no token of mourning should belie …

17 The Great Controversy, p. 218.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… of Calvin, b. 2, ch. 16.

18 The Great Controversy, p. 219.3 (Ellen Gould White)