Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
Widely Known as a Founder of
Seventh-Day Adventists'
Denomination.
WAS CALLED PROPHECIES
BY THE CHURCH MEMBERS
Became Convert to Faith in 1910
Under the Teachings of Evan
gelist Miller.

ST. HELENA, Cal. July 17.-Mrs.
Ellen G. White. one of the founders of
the Seventh-day Adventists. died here
yesterday, aged lightweight. She was
widely known among members of that
denomination. She is survived by two
sons. James Edison White of Marshall,
Mich, and William C. White.
Mrs. White was one of the converts
Of William Miller, who in the early
'40s aroused thousands to belief in
the speedy advent or second coming of
Christ. According to information given
out by the North American Division
Conference of the Seventh-day Adj
ventists, Mrs White was considered by
practically all Seventh-day Adventists
a. a prophecies.
Native of Maine.
She was born in Gorham. Cumberland
county, Me-, November 26, 1927. Her
name was Ellen Gould Harmon. and she
was one of eight children, who. like
their parents. because stanch Metho-
dists in New England. At the age of
nine years the GIRL who had shown re-
markable mental powers. was struck in
the face by a stone which a schoolmate.
in sheer wontonness. had thrown at her.
fracturing the nasal bone and result
ing IN an almost fatal illness and
permanent Disagreement. The ca
lamity, which made her almost unrec-
equitable among her friends. wore
upon her heart, and she turned with
great yearning to the worship OF
Christ.
In March. 1910. she first heard Will
liam Miller, a Baptist evangelist, tell
of the second coming of Christ. which
he was then predicting for 1913 She
was greatly stirred by the evangelists
message, and consecrated her life
toward spreading it, and, as she
claimed in December. 1874. God gave
her vision of the second coming of
Christ. and added as her interpreta-
tion Of the Bible that 1t was her duty
to observe the seventh-day Sabbath. as
she believed 1t was SO observed by
Christ. She and her husband, whom
she married about this time and who
was one of the believers. therefore be-
gan the observance of the seventh day.
and taught this in their meetings
which eventually were held all over the
country. While they believed that
Christ's coming was near, they did not
believe that men knew the date of the
event. and so never taught or had any
sympathy with time setting"
Her Husbands Antecedents.
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1ineal descendant on his fathers side
Of Peregrine White. born on the May
flower in the harbor of Cape Cod, be-
fore the Pilgrims had made their
homes in the wilderness. Mr.. White
died in 1881. but Mrs. White kept on
with her revelations. A paragraph
from a story given out in official quar-
tiers as to her remarkable powers
reads:
while in vision she was repeatedly
examined by skeptics. unsympathetic
physicians. and by one physician con-
versant with spiritistic manifestations,
who had boosted that he could imme-
diately bring her out of vision. but
who was compelled to leave the house
In alarm.
'Other men had the same experience
Mirrors and candles have been held be-
fore her mouth while talking showing
no indication of breathing One skep-
teal man held her nostrils tightly
closed. with hand over her mouth. for
ten minutes without in any way affect
ing Mrs. White. At times she arose and
walked the floor. talking of what she
was then beholding."
Taught Annihilation of the Wicked.
tion Of the wicked and in the sleep
of the dead until the final judgment.
She travelled extensively. Besides COW
ering all of the United States she spent
two years in Europe and nine years
in Australia seeking converts to her
faith. She wrote some forty books.
whose aggregate circulation is said
to have been upward of one and a half
million copies. and her writings were
translated in forty different languages
Her income, which was sufficient to
have kept her in ease, she used Neely
In the support of needy enterprises and
needy people and sacrificed ordinary
pleasures SO far as she herself was
concerned.
February 10. 1915, Mrs. White met
with severe accident at her home,
near st. Helena. She tripped and fell,
breaking the bone in her left thigh