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Table of Contents
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Charges of Critics Are in Bold Face
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Acknowledgments |
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Foreword, by J. L. McElhany |
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| From
the Author to the Reader of This Book |
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| 1. Mrs.
White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church |
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Two Distinguishing Marks of Seventh-day Adventism—First,
Arose in Response to Prophecy—Second, Prophetic Gift in Church—Mrs. White's
Counsels Explain Church's Growth, Stability |
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| 2. A
Life Sketch of Mrs. White: Were Mrs. White's Visions Due to Nervous
Disorders?—Part I |
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Charge: Her Visions Due to Nervous Disorders—Two
Primary Weaknesses in Charge—Her Birth, Early Life, Conversion—Her First
Vision—Public Ministry Begins—Encounters With Fanatics—Setting of
Visions—Dominating Life Motive—Letters Reveal Personality—Her Views on Child
Training—Her Resourcefulness—Pioneering in Medical Work—Death of
Husband—Overseas Travels—Closing Years—Death |
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| 3. Mrs.
White, and Bible Prophets, in Vision: Were Mrs. White's Visions Due to
Nervous Disorders?—Part II |
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Visions Described by James White, George I. Butler—Night
Visions—How Should Prophets Act in Vision?—Bible Prophets in Vision—Critics
in Strange Company |
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Medical Facts Concerning Certain Nervous Maladies: Were Mrs. White's Visions
Due to Nervous Disorders?—Part III |
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Modern Medical View of Epilepsy, Hysteria—“Hysterical
Personality”—Relation of Epilepsy to Hysteria—Schizophrenia—Whole Life
Picture Important in Diagnosis |
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Certain Nervous-Disorder Proofs Examined: Were Mrs. White's Visions Due to
Nervous Disorders?—Part IV |
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Why Public Visions Ceased—Medical Witnesses Against Mrs.
White, Drs. Fairfield, Russell, Jackson, Kellogg—Canright Describes Her—New
Self-Delusion Theory—The Tottering Edifice and the Wayfarer |
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| 6. What
Do Adventists Claim for Mrs. White's Writings? |
87 |
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Charge: Mrs. White's Writings Are Considered Another
Bible—Refuted by Adventist Leaders and Mrs. White |
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| 7. The
Astronomy Vision |
91 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Gave False Figures on Moons of Planets—Source
Material on Astronomy Vision—Not Mrs. White but Bates Named Planets
Seen—Critic Suppresses Part of Loughborough Account—-Not Necessary to Know
All Truth in Order to Be True Prophet—Three Key Phrases in Critic's
Statement Analyzed |
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| 8. The
Predictions of the 1856 Vision |
102 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Made False Claim in 1856 That Some
Then Living Would Be Still Alive at Second Advent—Conditional Quality of
Divine Predictions—Nineveh, Israelites, Eli, Hezekiah, David—Factors That
Affect Promise of Advent—Mrs. White's Comments on Lord's Delay—Certainty of
Prophecy Not Affected |
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| 9. The Civil War
Predictions |
112 |
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Charge No. 1: Mrs. White “Revealed” Only What Everybody Knew About
Civil War—No. 2: Her “Revelation” Simply Reflected Views of Lincoln's
Opponents—No. 3: She Predicted Slavery Would Continue—No. 4: She Thought It
“Impossible” to Have War Conducted Successfully—No. 5: She Predicted That
United States “Divided” “Must Fall”—No. 6: She Falsely Predicted, “This
Nation Will Yet Be Humbled Into the Dust”—No. 7: She Falsely Predicted
England Would Declare War—No. 8: She Forbade Adventists Giving Any Aid to
Government—No. 9: She Mistakenly Saw in Civil War Evidence of World's End
Near—No. 10: She Mistakenly Forecast Famine and Pestilence |
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| 10. The Tower of
Babel |
131 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Placed Tower of Babel Before Flood—Internal
Evidence Reveals She Knew Bible History—typographical Error Explains Mistake |
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| 11. “No Antidote”
for Strychnine |
133 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Mistakenly Said There Was “No Antidote” for
Strychnine—Three Key Questions Indicate Her Words Misunderstood—Modern
Medical Discoveries Do Not Overthrow Her Statement on Strychnine |
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| 12. The Reform
Dress |
136 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Advocated Outlandish Reform Dress, Then Abandoned
It—Fashions of 1860 Described, Indicted—Mrs. White's Key Statements on
Dress Reform—Visit to Dansville, 1864—Her Further Statements in 1865—Visit
to Dansville That Year—J. H. Waggoner on Reform Dress—Mrs. White Answers
Questions on Dress—She Restates Her Views in 1867—Those Dress Reform
Patterns—She Keeps Reform in Proper Perspective—Her 1881 Statement on
“Simplicity in Dress”—Why Reform Dress Discarded —Not to Be Revived—What
Does Ridicule Prove?—Dress Reformers Ahead of Their Times |
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| 13. A Sketch of
Early Adventist History: Mrs. White and the Shut Door—Part I |
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Millerite Views on Prophecy—Revision of Views in 1844—Seventh Month
Movement—Second Angel's Message—Events Immediately Following October 22,
1844—New Dates Set for Advent—Rise of Seventh-day Adventism—Hiram Edson's
View of Sanctuary—Holders of Sanctuary and Sabbath Views Begin to
Merge—Development of Sanctuary Doctrine—Shut Door—Vision Supports New
Sanctuary Teaching—Central Point in Shut-Door View—James White and Joseph
Bates on Shut Door in 1847—Sabbath Doctrine Takes Definite Form—Sabbath as a
Seal—Sabbath and Sanctuary Tied Together—Three Key Doctrines Rounded
Out—Doctrine of 144,000—Earliest Activities of Sabbathkeeping Group—False
Premise Often Employed by Friend and Foe—Sense of Cohesion Developing in
Sabbathkeeping Group—James White's 1868 Statement on 1844 Period—Seventh-day
Adventist Church Fully Formed—Comment on Calvinists |
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| 14. The Shut-Door
Charge Examined: Mrs. White and the Shut Door—Part II |
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Charge: For About Seven Years After Oct. 22, 1844, Mrs. White Had
“Revelations” That Probation for World Had Ended—Charge Examined Under
Twelve Heads—1. Her Frank Statement—What Bible Says on Close of Probation—2.
Her First Vision—3. Her Vision of February 1845—4. Her letter to Eli
Curtis—5. Her Endorsement of Crosier's Article—6. Her Use of Hosea 5:6, 7—7.
Her Vision of March 24, 1849—8. The So-called Camden Vision—9. Her
Description of Church Members in Early 1840's as “Children of Their Father,
the Devil”—10. Her Prayer of Blessing on Present Truth—11. Her
Language Like That of Her Associates—12. Absence of Evidence She Laboured
for Non-Adventists |
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| 15. Mrs. White
Taught Probation Still Lingers: Mrs. White and the Shut Door—Part III |
239 |
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Statement in Her First Vision Regarding 144,000—Her Vision of January 5,
1849—Her Article in Present Truth, September, 1849—Dorchester Vision,
November 1848—Four Arguments Against This Vision Examined |
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| 16. Time
Setting—The Seven-Year Theory |
253 |
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Charge: Bates Induced Mrs. White and Her Husband to Believe Christ
Would Come in 1851. When She Abandoned This View She Also Gave Up Shut-Door
View—Bates's Time-setting Theory Stated—How Influential Was He?—Mrs.
White's Statements Allegedly Supporting Bates—Her 1854 Statement Explains
Phrase, “A Few Months”—James White and Time-setting Theory—How Widespread
Was This Theory? |
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| 17. Did Mrs. White
Suppress Some of Her Writings? |
267 |
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Charge: She Suppressed Certain Early Writings to Conceal Abandoned
Beliefs—Charge Examined in Eight Parts—1. Alleged Inter-locking of
“Shut-Door” and “Seven-Year” Theories—2. James and Ellen White's Relation to
Seven-Year Theory—3. The “Suppression” of Two Publications—4. The
Publication of Experience and Views—5. This Book Goes Out of Print—6.
Publication of Early Writings—7. George I. Butler's Statement—Wording
of the Preface—8. Those Deleted Passages—Honourable Revisions, Deletions,
Additions—Earliest Cry of Suppression—Critics Reason to Opposite Conclusions |
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| 18. The Image Beast
and 666 |
286 |
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Charge: In 1847 Mrs. White Gave an Interpretation to the “666” of
Revelation 13 Which She Abandoned in 1851—Early Adventist Views on
666—James White Questions These Views—Analysis of Mrs. White's 1847
Statement—Possible Copyists' Errors |
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| 19. Mrs. White's
Attitude Toward Other Churches |
295 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Denounces All Churches and Particularly Because
They Refused to Accept False Adventist Preaching in 1844—How Break With
Churches Began in 1840's—Call to Come Out—Present Day Apostasy—Parallel to
Jews at First Advent |
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| 20. “Amalgamation
of Man and Beast” |
306 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Teaches That Early Man Cohabited With Beasts and
That Offspring Constitutes Certain Depraved Races of Men Today. She Later
Suppressed This Teaching—Two Explanations of Her Words
Offered—“Amalgamation” Defined—Key Phrase Examined—Results of
Amalgamation—Parallel Passages Summarized—Three Important Conclusions—Mrs.
White Versus Darwin—Greatest Objection Considered—Satan and Animal
Kingdom—Suppression Charge Examined |
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| 21. “Rome Alone”—An
Alleged Contradiction |
323 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Reversed Herself Regarding Rome's Being Referred
To in Revelation 14:8—What Is Meant by Babylon—Adventist Writers'
Comments on Revelation 14:8—Apparent Contradiction Due to Change of Emphasis |
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| 22. The Ignorant
Slave—Slavery Until Second Advent |
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Charge No. 1: Mrs. White Mistakenly Wrote in 1858 That Slaves Could
Not Discern Between Right and Wrong, Hence Would Not Go to Heaven—Failed
to Quote All She Says—Her View on Resurrection Not Anti-Scriptural—Charge
No. 2: Mrs. White Mistakenly Expected Slavery Would Continue Until Second
Advent—Prophetic Practice of Merging Present and Future Judgments—Actual
Slavery Today Mrs. White Follows Prophetic Practice |
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| 23. Did God Deceive
the Advent Movement in 1843? |
342 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Taught That God Deceived Early Adventists by
Hiding Mistake in Their 1843 Chart—Disciples on Road to Emmaus—Abraham
and Offering of Isaac—Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart |
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| 24. Did Mrs. White
Break a Promise? |
345 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Promised Certain Workers She Would Clear Up Their
Difficulties Regarding Testimonies, but Shortly Afterwards Broke Her Promise—Historical
Facts Bearing on Incident—Her Words Misconstrued—Answers Given to Sincere
Inquirers |
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| 25. The Time to
Begin the Sabbath |
350 |
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Charge: Mrs. White, Led by Bates, Mistakenly Began Sabbath at Six
p.m. Friday Till 1855, Then Changed to Sundown Hour Under Andrews' Teaching—Historical
Setting—The 1855 Battle Creek Conference—Why Mrs. White Did Not Have Early
Vision Correcting Error |
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| 26. Did Mrs. White
Contradict Herself Regarding Sabbath-keeping? |
356 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Said Sundaykeeping Was “The Mark of the Beast,”
but When Adventists Were Jailed for Violating Sunday Laws She Really
Reversed Herself by Instructing Them to “Give Sunday to the Lord” in
“Missionary Work”—Her Statements in Early Writings Examined—Her
Words Misconstrued—Four Points of Charge Refuted |
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| 27. Mrs. White's
Teachings on Healthful Living |
362 |
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Charge No. 1: Mrs. White's Diet Teachings Make Kingdom of God Consist
in Meat and Drink—Basis of Adventist Health Teaching—Critics Agree Mind
and Body Interrelated—Mrs. White Avoids Extremes—Comment on Acts 15:28, 29—Charge
No. 2: In Condemning Meat Mrs. White Condemns Christ—Fallacy of Charge
Exposed—Charge No. 3: Mrs. White Calls Meat Eating “A Suggestion of
Satan”—Context Reveals Her Words Misconstrued—Charge No. 4: Mrs.
White Fulfilled Paul's Prediction in 1 Tim. 4:1, 3—True Interpretation
of Paul's Statement—Charge No. 5: Contrary to Scripture Mrs. White
Endorsed Pork, Then Later Condemned It—Analysis of Debated Passage
Refutes Charge—Charge No. 6: Mrs. White First Condemned, Then Permitted,
Use of Butter and Eggs—Parallel Passages Examined—Reasons for Variations
When Applying Health Law—Dairy Products in 1860's—Comments on Use of
Eggs—Discoveries Suggest Restraint in Passing Judgment—Mrs. White's
Statements on Meat Eating Examined—Charge No. 8: Mrs. White Simply
Borrowed From Others Her Health Teachings—Her Own Frank Statement
Regarding Views of Others—Significant Fact She Endorsed Some Views of
Reformers and Opposed Others—Dr. Kellogg's Remarkable Testimony—That Visit
to Dansville—Mrs. White's Own Statement as to Real Source of Her Health
Teachings—J. H. Waggoner's Testimony |
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| 28. Mrs. White's
Literary Borrowings: The Plagiarism Charge—Part I |
403 |
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Charge: Mrs. White Copied Extensively From Other Authors Without
Giving Credit or Using Quotation Marks While Pretending All She Wrote Was
Revealed in Vision—What Constitutes Plagiarism?—Canright as a
Borrower—The Legal Aspect of Plagiarism-Historical Background of The
Great Controversy—Writers Quoted in That Volume—The 1888-Edition
Preface—Total of Literary Borrowings in The Great Controversy—Historical
Background of Sketches From the Life of Paul—Extent of Her Borrowings
in This Work—Do Facts Justify Charge of Plagiarism? |
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| 29. That Threatened
Lawsuit: The Plagiarism Charge—Part II |
429 |
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Charge: Mrs. White “Suppressed” Her Book on Paul to Escape
“Threatened Prosecution” for Plagiarism by the Publishers of a Book on Paul
From Which She Had Copied Extensively—Amadon's Article in Newspaper—Good
Men and Bad Memories—The Anonymous Article That Prompted Amadon's Reply—The
Anonymous 1907 Pamphlet—A Present-Day Critic Speaks—Kolvoord Story
Analyzed—The Final “Proof” Examined—Historical Facts Presented —Letters
Between Haskell and White—Denominational Promotion of Mrs. White's Book on
Paul—Plans for a Revised Edition-Reason for Delay in Executing Plans—W. C.
White's 1907 Letter Regarding Rumours—Which Publisher Threatened Suit?—Facts
Regarding Copyright Law—A Publisher of Conybeare and Howson Book
Testifies—The Threatened Lawsuit Quashed |
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| 30. Literary
Borrowings and Inspiration: The Plagiarism Charge—Part III |
459 |
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Did Mrs. White's Borrowings Invalidate Her Claim to Inspiration?—Extreme
Positions on Inspiration—Middle Position—Mrs. White Describes Prophet's
Task—Human and Divine Related in Miracles—A Critic's Testimony—Comments on
Preface to Sketches From the Life of Paul |
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| 31. Did Mrs.
White's Secretaries Write Her Books? |
468 |
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Charge: At the Suggestions of Others Mrs. White Changed Her Writings.
Her Secretaries Polished Her Manuscripts. One Secretary, Fannie Bolton,
Wrote the Whole of Steps to Christ Which Carries Mrs. White's
Name—Adventists and Verbal Inspiration—Why Mrs. White Read Her
Manuscripts to Others—Literary Assistants Did Not Change Her
Thoughts—Literary Quality of Her Earliest Writings—Newspaper Comments on Her
Speaking—Literary Assistants Testify—Her Own Statement—The Sad Story of
Fannie Bolton—Parallel Passages Expose Claim She Wrote Steps to Christ |
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