Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1) (1985)

Ellen G. White: Volume 1--The Early Years: 1827-1862

Arthur L. White

1985

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Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi A Statement the Author Would Like to Have You Read . . . . . . xiii

The Author's Aims and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii Chapter 1--(1827-1836) The Messenger of the Lord in Our

Midst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Here the Story Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Harbingers of the Advent Awakening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Carefree Childhood Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Early Experiences Recounted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 A "School Days" Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Family Moves to the City of Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 The Portland the Youthful Ellen Harmon Knew . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Hatmaking in the Harmon House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Attending Brackett Street School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The Textbooks She Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Robert Harmon's Trip to Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Chapter 2--(1836-1843) Abrupt Changes in Ellen's Life . . . . . 33 Schooling Cut Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Early Religious Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Wrestling with the Problems of "Conversion" . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The William Miller Lectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ellen's Developing Christian Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 William Miller's Second Visit to Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Two Significant Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Bearing Public Witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cast Out from the Methodist Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 3--(1844) 1844--The Year of Expectation and

Disappointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Question of the Immortality of the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Time of Expectation Passes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 A Test of True Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The Second Angel's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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October 22, 1844, The Day of Expectation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The Great Disappointment of October 22, 1844 . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The Failing Health of Ellen Harmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Ellen Harmon Given a Vision--Her First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 The First Vision as Published in the Day-Star . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Vision Answered Many Pressing Questions . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 4--(1844-1845) Make It Known to Others . . . . . . . . . 69 Ellen's Confrontation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Fear of Exaltation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Meeting Hazen Foss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Ellen Ventures Into the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Background of this Traumatic Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Fruitful Journey to Eastern Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Encouraging the Fainthearted and Meeting Fanaticism . . . . 79 Chapter 5--(1845) The Messenger of the Lord at Work . . . . . . 83 The Otis Nichols Letter of April 20, 1846 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Ellen's Experience in Delivering the Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Early Arguments for the Spirit of Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Some High Points of her Work in Eastern Maine . . . . . . . . . 88 Vision of Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Some Fanatical Positions She Met . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Wrestling With the Views of the Spiritualizers . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Ellen Leaves Suddenly for Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The Healing of Frances Howland and William Hyde . . . . . . 93 Preserved from Fanaticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Visit to New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Contending with Spiritual Magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Called Back to Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Vision of the New Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Chapter 6--(1845-1846) Sustained in a Continued Ministry . 102 Enabled to Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Large Family Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Bible Held in Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Unenviable Position of the Prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 A Symbolic Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 "Another Angel, Father!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Who Could be Saved? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The First Visit to Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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The 1845 Expectancy of the Second Advent . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 The Second Visit to Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Otis Nichols' Eyewitness Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Meeting Joseph Bates at New Bedford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Publication of Her First Vision--January, 1846 . . . . . . 121 Publication of the Vision of the Heavenly Sanctuary . . . . . 121 The Place of the Vision in Confirming the Sanctuary Truth 122 God's Leadings Clearly Manifest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Vision in a Sailboat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Chapter 7--(1846-1847) Entering Married Life . . . . . . . . . . . 125 The Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Their First Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Stricken with Severe Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Acceptance of the Seventh Day as the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . 132 The Profitable Time in Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Vision Confirming the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Rebaptism of Ellen White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 The Visions of Ellen White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Ellen White's Letter to Eli Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter 8--(1847-1848) Laying the Foundations . . . . . . . . . . 144 James White on the Prophetic Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 New Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Ellen Hits an All-Time Low in Discouragement . . . . . . . . . 152 Careers Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The First "General Conference" of Sabbathkeeping

Adventists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Chapter 9--(1848) The Sabbath and Sanctuary Conferences

and the Development of Doctrines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 The Volney Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 The Conference at Port Gibson, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 The Development of the Doctrines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Ellen White's Mind Locked for a Few Years . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 A Glimpse of the Activities at the Conferences . . . . . . . . . . 166 Established by the Lord God of Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Commissioned to Print a "Little Paper" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Chapter 10--(1848-1849) Heaven-directed Travels and

Important Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Troubles in Europe and Their Supposed Significance . . . . . 173

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