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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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The “Hygienic Festival” of July 27, 1871
With the upturn of the affairs of the institute in the spring, it became necessary to make an addition to the main building and improve and refit the cottages. To James White and some others this had seemed to be a new beginning, appropriately calling for the rededication of the institution and its staff, climaxed by a meal together. What better opportunity could there be to acquaint the leading families in Battle Creek with the enterprise and for what it stood? The committee chosen to foster the event, chaired by James White, sent out printed invitations to the principal families in the city and community to participate in a “hygienic festival” on the grounds of the institution. The response was excellent. The Health Reformer reported:2BIO 326.1
The preparations for the occasion, made by the joint action of those directly connected with the Health Institute, and a large number of practical health reformers in the city and vicinity, were ample and in many respects truly beautiful and grand.—The Health Reformer, August, 1871 (see also The Review and Herald, August 22, 1871).2BIO 326.2
The dinner was an outstanding success. One of the guests, the Honorable George Willard, editor of the Battle Creek Journal, reported the proceedings:2BIO 326.3
On Thursday, July 27, on the spacious and beautiful grounds of the Health Institute in this city, there was held a Health Reform Convention or Hygienic Festival, which was attended by about eight hundred persons, chiefly assembled from Battle Creek and the towns in the vicinity. The day was one of the finest of the season, and as the people began arriving about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, they found the amplest preparations made for their reception.2BIO 326.4
On the south side of the grounds were five tables—each 128 feet in length, the total length being 640 feet—all set in the neatest style and appropriately decorated with vases of flowers, while on the north side a large platform had been fitted up for a speaker's stand, with seats arranged in front of it for the accommodation of the guests during the speaking....2BIO 326.5
Before the guests sat down at the tables, there were some speeches, of which Editor Willard reported:2BIO 326.6
There were addresses on health and dress reform by the Rev. James White, and also by Mrs. White. They were both listened to with close attention, as they with remarkable force and clearness set forth the new principles of hygiene, and presented the reasons for their adoption.2BIO 327.1
Willard noted that “she proceeded to discuss the topics which would naturally possess a special interest on the part of the ladies of her audience.” He added:2BIO 327.2
The duties of the family and home circle were enforced with a practical eloquence, which must have convinced her hearers that many if not all of her admonitions and suggestions were worthy of serious attention, and that the world would be much better if they were carried out in actual practice in all the homes of the land.2BIO 327.3
When she had concluded her address, dinner was announced, and the crowd surged toward the five tables. Six hundred and seventy-five persons were served with a tempting meal. There were vegetables, of course, tastily prepared:2BIO 327.4
New ripe potatoes, green beans, green corn, beets, squash, green peas, baked beans.2BIO 327.5
There were breads and cakes:2BIO 327.6
Gems, raised bread, hard biscuit, buns, fruit cake (graham), sponge cake (graham), apple pie (graham), oatmeal pudding, manioca pudding with fruit, rice pudding with fruit.
As to fruit there were peaches; dried prunes, figs, and dates; apples; whortleberries [huckleberries]; and blackberries. The editor stated:2BIO 327.7
It is to be noticed that butter, grease of all kinds, tea, coffee, spice, pepper, ginger, and nutmeg were wholly discarded in the cookery and were not in use on the tables. Salt was provided for those who desired it.2BIO 327.8
Going considerably into detail, the editor stated:2BIO 327.9
After the invocation of the divine blessing, the dinner was served in a most capital manner, and was relished and universally commended by the vast company of guests, most of whom for the first time sat at a public dinner got up on the hygienic plan.—Ibid.2BIO 328.1
Then there was a visit to the facilities of the institute, and the crowd gathered again to listen further to James and Ellen White. Willard concluded his report, stating, “The institute, it is needless to add, has gained greatly by this convention, in having its aims and objects, as well as its actual condition and prospects, brought more fully before the public at large.”2BIO 328.2
This is precisely what the directors of the institute and the Adventist community had hoped for.2BIO 328.3