Ellen Harmon sustained a serious injury at the age of nine that left her facially disfigured and for some time unable to attend school. Her education ended with a brief period at the Westbrook Seminary and Female College of Portland, Maine, in 1839. The following year she underwent a religious experience at a Methodist camp meeting, and she was baptized in 1842. A short time later she followed her family in becoming a follower of William Miller, the Adventist prophet who was preaching the imminent return of Christ (fixed for October 22, 1844). Undismayed later by the apparent failure of Miller's prophecy, Harmon retained the Adventist view.

In December 1844 Harmon experienced the first of what she would later claim were some 2,000 visions. She began an itinerant ministry to discouraged Millerites, bringing news of the future and messages of encouragement gained from her visions. In 1846 she married James S. White, another Adventist minister. They traveled together through New England and gradually moved farther afield, spreading the Adventist faith. She published A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White (1851) and then her Supplement to the Experience and Views of Ellen G. White (1854).

After the Whites moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1855, that city became the centre of Adventist activity. Representatives of scattered Adventist congregations met there in 1860 and adopted the name Seventh-day Adventists. Three years later the church adopted a formal denominational structure. Throughout the work of organization and the establishment of an Adventist orthodoxy, Ellen White's visions were a guiding force. The scriptural interpretations that came to her were promptly accepted. Much of the church program thus revealed was published in her Testimonies for the Church, which eventually grew from 16 pages in its 1855 edition to fill nine volumes. Her views on health, especially her opposition to the use of coffee, tea, meat, and drugs, were incorporated into Seventh-day Adventist practice.

In 1866 White helped establish the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek; later, as the Battle Creek Sanitarium, it became famous for its work in the field of diet and health food and was the model for many other sanatoriums. In 1874 White helped found Battle Creek College, an Adventist institution of which her husband was named president.

Under her influence the Adventist movement was actively abolitionist before the Civil War, and during the 1860s and '70s White was a prominent temperance advocate. In 1880 she and her husband published Life Sketchesof Elder James White and His Wife, Mrs. Ellen G. White. After her husband's death the following year, White lived for four years in Healdsburg, California. She traveled and lectured in Europe (1885–88) and was an Adventist missionary in Australia (1891–1900), where she established a school that later became Avondale College. After her return to the United States, White led a movement to remove Adventist institutions from Battle Creek. The college moved to Berrien Springs, Michigan, as Emmanuel Missionary College (from 1960 Andrews University), and in 1903 the church headquarters and newspaper relocated to Takoma Park, Maryland. From that year White lived mainly in St. Helena, California.
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Review and Herald Publishing Association, by Lewis R Walton, ISBN# 0-8280-0084-0

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Chapter Title...Page #

Preface...iii
Introduction...v
1. The Destruction of Jerusalem...17
2. Persecution in the First Centuries...39
3. An Era of Spiritual Darkness...49
4. The Waldenses...61
5. John Wycliffe...79
6. Huss and Jerome...97  Movie: John Huss
7. Luther's Separation From Rome...120
8. Martin Luther Before the Diet...145  Movie: Martin Luther

9. The Swiss Reformer... 171
10. Progress of Reform in Germany...185
11. Protest of the Princes...197
12. The French Reformation...211
13. The Netherlands and Scandinavia...237
14. Later English Reformers...245
15. The Bible and the French Revolution...265
16. The Pilgrim Fathers...289
17. Heralds of the Morning...299
18. An American Reformer...317
19. Light Through Darkness...343
20. A Great Religious Awakening...355
21. A Warning Rejected...375
22. Prophecies Fulfilled...391
23. What Is the Sanctuary?...409
24. In the Holy of Holies...423
25. God's Law Immutable...433
26. A Work of Reform...451
27. Modern Revivals...461
28. Facing Life's Record...479
29. The Origin of Evil...492

30. Enmity Between Man and Satan...505
31. Agency of Evil Spirits...511
32. Snares of Satan...518
33. The First Great Deception...531
34. Can Our Dead Speak to Us?...551
35. Liberty of Conscience Threatened...563
36. The Impending Conflict...582
37. The Scriptures a Safeguard...593
38. The Final Warning...603
39. The Time of Trouble...613
40. God's People Delivered...635
41. Desolation of the Earth...653
42. The Controversy Ended...662
Appendix...679

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The Angel continued, "Don't seal the words of the prophecy of this book; don't put it away on the shelf. Time is just about up. Let evildoers do their worst and the dirty-minded go all out in pollution, but let the righteous maintain a straight course and the holy continue on in holiness." "Yes, I'm on my way! I'll be there soon! I'm bringing my payroll with me. I'll pay all people in full for their life's work. I'm A to Z, the First and the Final, Beginning and Conclusion.   "How blessed are those who wash their robes! The Tree of Life is theirs for good, and they'll walk through the gates to the City. But outside for good are the filthy curs: sorcerers, fornicators, murderers, idolaters—all who love and live lies. Revelation 22:10-15  The Message Bible

 

We shall Meet Our Guardian Angels

He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. Psalms 91:11.

Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity shall we understand what we owe to the care and interposition of His angels. Celestial beings have taken an active part in the affairs of men. They have appeared in garments that shone as the lightning; they have come as men, in the garb of wayfarers. They have accepted the hospitalities of human homes; they acted as guides to benighted travelers. They have thwarted the spoiler's purpose and turned aside the stroke of the destroyer.

Though the rulers of this world know it not, yet often in their councils angels have been spokesmen. Human eyes have looked upon them. Human ears have listened to their appeals. In the council hall and the court of justice, heavenly messengers have pleaded the cause of the persecuted and oppressed. They have defeated purposes and arrested evils that would have brought wrong and suffering to God's children. To the students in the heavenly school, all this will be unfolded.

Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in his own life. The angel who was his guardian from his earliest moment; the angel who watched his steps, and covered his head in the day of peril; the angel who was with him in the valley of the shadow of death, who marked his resting place, who was the first to greet him in the resurrection morning--what will it be to hold converse with him, and to learn the history of divine interposition in the individual life, of heavenly co-operation in every work for humanity!

With the word of God in his hands, every human being, wherever his lot in life may be cast, may have such companionship as he shall choose. In its pages he may hold converse with the noblest and best of the human race, and may listen to the voice of the Eternal as He speaks with men. As he studies and meditates upon the themes into which "the angels desire to look" (1 Peter 1:12), he may have their companionship.

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