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- Dr. Lay and the Health Reform Movement
- Active Teachers of Health Reform
- Plans for Health Publications
- Ellen White's Appeal to Mothers
- An Expeditiously Timed Movement
- Life in the White Home
- Sabbath Readings, Compiled by Ellen G. White
- Preparing People to Meet Jesus
- Testimony for the Church No. 10
- Supplementary Income Aided White Family Finances
- Satan's Intent to Destroy James White
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- The Reform Dress
- Vital Principles of Inspiration Disclosed
- Ellen White Begins to Wear the Reform Dress
- Arriving at Style and Length
- The Final Outcome
- Skills in Public Speaking Acquired by Ellen White
- Farming in Greenville
- Thoughts on Revelation
- Getting in the Hay
- Meetings at Bushnell
- The Unforgettable Meeting the Next Sabbath
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- Invited to a Four-Day September Convocation in Wisconsin
- Preparing for the Confrontation
- The Crucial Weekend at Battle Creek
- The Wholesome Response
- Modest Plans Announced
- The Wisconsin Convocation
- The Disclosure of Strange Criticism
- The Iowa Convocation
- Testimony No. 12, and Battle Creek
- Significant Changes in Battle Creek
- “In This I Did Wrong”
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- Lessons Gained From Dreams
- The Difficult Position of a Messenger for God
- Loughborough's Dream
- The Glorious Fulfillment in Battle Creek
- Off on the Eastern Tour
- Labors in Maine
- J. N. Andrews and the Visions
- At Washington, New Hampshire, on the Homeward Journey
- Continued Evidences
- On to Vermont and West
- Back Home in Battle Creek
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- The Almost Fatal Accident of Seneca King
- Ellen White's Continued Ministry as God's Messenger
- The 1868 General Conference Session
- The Decision to Publish Personal Testimonies
- The Vision of June 12, 1868
- Impressions of Other Eyewitnesses
- Ellen White Overwhelmed
- The Broad Field Reached By Personal Testimonies
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- An Annual Camp Meeting
- Seventh-day Adventist Benevolent Association
- The Mission to California
- Work on Life Incidents
- Ellen G. White Busy Writing
- The Camp Meeting at Wright, Michigan
- The Hasty Trip to Battle Creek, and a Dream
- The Camp Layout
- Activities and Speakers
- Two More Camp Meetings Planned for 1868
- Involved Again in Important Interests at Battle Creek
- An Eastern Tour
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- Churches without Pastors
- Residing Again in Beloved Battle Creek
- The 1869 General Conference Session
- A Trying Time for Ellen White
- Camp Meetings Take Hold in Earnest
- “A Delightful Kind of Labor”
- Europe Looms as an Important Field of Labor
- Testimonies Published in 1869
- The Continued Buffetings of Satan
- Acquaintance With Ellen White Allayed Prejudice
- In Defense of James and Ellen White
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- A Full Financial Disclosure Promised
- James White's Real Estate Transactions
- The Sale of Writing Paper and Envelopes
- The Many Responses
- Wild Rumors Concerning Ellen White
- James and Ellen White in Battle Creek
- J. N. Andrews on the Visions
- The Searching Messages of Testimony No. 18
- Preparation for the 1870 General Conference Session
- James and Ellen White Entrenched Anew in Battle Creek
- Camp Meeting Again
- Camp Meeting Travel Vignettes
- On to the Kansas Camp Meeting
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- Problems in Adopting the Vegetarian Diet
- A Pamphlet on Raising and Canning Small Fruits
- Meeting Problems in the Midwest
- Failure to Promote Health Reform Devastating
- The Dietary Program in the White Home
- Extremes Taught in the Health Reformer Bring Crisis
- Ellen White's Moderate Positions
- Back in Battle Creek for the Winter
- Lifesaving Therapy for the Health Reformer
- Mrs. White's Department
- Struggling with Copy Preparation
- The Journal Revived
- A Marriage in the White Family
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- The “Hygienic Festival” of July 27, 1871
- The New Review and Herald Building
- Special Healing Blessings Signal God's Power
- The September Michigan Camp Meeting
- The Tour Through New England
- Vision at Bordoville, Vermont
- The Tenth Annual Session of the General Conference
- Young Men Called to the Ministry
- George I. Butler Replaces James White
- Seventh Day Baptist Delegate
- The Dedication of the New Review Building
- The Seventh-day Adventist School
- Eyes to the West
- An Encouraging Word for Wives Whose Husbands Must Travel
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- James White Declares His Relation to the Visions and the Testimonies
- Forgiven and Accepted
- The Picture in the Summer of 1874
- The Three Sensitive Letters, July 2, 8, and 10
- Putting the Finger on the Basic Cause
- A Second Candid Letter
- Another Straightforward Letter
- James White's Potential
- The James White Letters Take on a Positive Tone
- James White Arrives in Battle Creek
- A Relapse During the Ensuing Years
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- An Unexpected and Significant Turn in Affairs
- Facing Large Responsibilities
- The Eastern Camp Meetings
- California and the Publishing Interests
- Concern for the Most Effective Work in California
- The Winter—Michigan or California?
- The Pressing Need for a Well-Trained Ministry
- Planning for a Biblical Institute
- 150 Attend the Institute
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- The Fourteenth Annual Session of the General Conference
- The Remaining Eastern Camp Meetings
- The New York Camp Meeting
- A Call for Colporteur Ministry Evangelism
- Unexpected Revival in Battle Creek
- Hastening to the West Coast
- The California Publishing House
- The San Francisco Tent Meeting
- A Dedicated Working Force in the Oakland Office
- The Angel's Special Message for James White
- The Call for a Day of Fasting and Prayer
- Looking Ahead
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Omens that Did not Augur Well
James White was experiencing symptoms that warned of the approach of another stroke, and he was terrified. He wrote of what he had experienced early in the year when he hoped to divest himself of some of the responsibilities he was carrying:2BIO 323.1
In January last we appealed to our people for six months’ rest from perpetual labors and cares. General Conference was called a month in advance, that the necessary arrangements might be made for our much-needed rest. And in the face of our appeals for entire rest for a season, fourfold burdens were coolly put upon us, then a resolution was passed voting us rest! We have not, however, found an hour's rest.— Ibid.2BIO 323.2
He referred then to the kind of help he hoped to see come to Battle Creek. Not ministers, who were few in number—he did not want to see them burdened with matters of finance as he had been so long, but businessmen. He named some he would like to see there: H. W. Kellogg, of Vermont; H. B. Stratton, of Boston; Ira Abbey, of New York; King, Fargo, Root, McPherson, and Palmer, of Michigan (Ibid.).2BIO 323.3
He clarified his concept of the relation they might take to the work, making Battle Creek or its vicinity their place of residence. He saw such men who had made a success of life, who would settle nearby, acting as “counselors and helpers in all matters pertaining to the advancement of the cause.” If this could be, and if twenty or twenty-five of the very best families could come and do the work that the ministers should not be asked to do, he would be willing to remain in Battle Creek.2BIO 323.4
But the kind of sweeping changes he was calling for could not come about overnight. In his editorial in the next issue of the Review he continued his pleas. He closed his editorial thus:2BIO 323.5
In view of these facts, sensible Christians will justify our efforts, in our worn condition, at the age of 50, to either call around us suitable help, and those who will have a good influence, or to leave the work at Battle Creek to fresher and more able hands.—Ibid., August 8, 18712BIO 323.6
On August 22, almost in desperation he inserted a back page Review note, filling half a column and titled “Men Wanted.” He explained that the men who should come need not at the outset feel that they were prepared to fill positions they were not qualified for. But he explained:2BIO 323.7
We want our most reliable men and their families at headquarters—2BIO 324.1
1. To add to the spiritual interests of our religious meetings, and to give a better tone of spirituality at the office of publication and the institute.2BIO 324.2
2. To serve as counselors, trustees, and directors, and hold up the hands of those who have long borne double burdens and responsibilities in the cause.2BIO 324.3
3. As fast and as far as possible, those who are competent to do it, to work their way into the business and mechanical branches of the work, so as to release as soon as possible from “serving tables” some who should be giving themselves wholly to the Word of God, and to prayer....2BIO 324.4
Men are wanted at headquarters to give character to the work, that our people everywhere may have undoubted confidence in the management of our institutions. Then they will open the hand wide in charitable donations to sustain the work of God.—Ibid., August 22, 18712BIO 324.5