The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-17
ELLEN t. WHITE
 DIES IN CALF ORN|A Was One of Founders and Prophecies of Seventh
 Day Adventists

St. Helena, Cal. July 16-Mrs Ell len G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventists. died here today, aged Ss. She was widely known among members of that denomination and by many she was regarded as their prophecies.
 Mrs Ellen G. White was one of the converts of William Miller. who in the early 4o's aroused thousands to a be- iiet Tn the speedy advent or second coming of Christ. According to in- formation given out by the North American division conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, Mrs. White was considered by practically all Seventh Day Adventists IS their prom : etess.
 Born in Gorham, Cumberland coun- ty' Maine, November 26, 1927. she had lived to the advanced age of SS years Her name was Ellen Gould Harmon, ana she was one of eight children. who, like their parents. became stancb Methodists in New England. At the age of years the girl, who had shown remarkable mental powers, was strucls Tn the face by a stone which a school mate, in sheer wantoness, had thrown at her, fracturing the nasal bone and resulting in an almost fatal illness and permanent disfigurement. The calam- ity, which made her almost unrecoy- nlzable among her friends. wore upon her heart and she turned with great yearning to the worship of Christ.
 Stirred by Evangelist
 In March, 1Sf0, she first heard Will liam Miller Baptist evangelist. tell Of the second coming of Christ which he was then predicting for 1s4s. She was greatly stirred by the evangelist's s message, and consecrated her life to- ward spreading it and, as she claimed in December, 1854, God gave her vi- sion of the second coming of Christ and added as her interpretation of the Bible that it was her duty to observe the seventh day Sabbath as she be- lieved 1t was so observed by Christ She and her husband, whom she had married about this time and who was one of the believers. therefore began the observance of the seventh day. and taught this in their meetines 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 husband was James White, a lineal de- scendant on his fathers side of Per- esrine White, born on the Mayflower in the harbor of Cape Cod, before the Pilgrims had made their homes in the wilderness Mir. White died in 1881, but Mrs. White kept on with her revel- ations
 Examined by Skeptics
 A paragraph from story given out in official quarters as to her remark able powers, reads:
 examined by skeptics. unsympathetic physicians and by one physician con- versant with spiritistic manifestations, who had toasted that he could imme- diately hring her out of vision but who was compelled to leave the house in alarm. Other men had the same ex- periencc. Mirrors and candles have been held before her mouth while talk ing, showing no indication of breath ing. One skeptical man held her nos trils tightly closed with hand over her mouth for 10 minutes without in any way affecting Mrs. White At times sho arose and walked the floor talk ing or what she was there DehOldtng.
 She believed in the ultimate anni- hilation of the wicked and in the sleep of the dead until the final judgment She travelled extensively. Besides cov- 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 40 books whose aggregate circulation is said to have been upward of one and a half million copies. and her writings were translated in 40 different languages Her income which would have been sufficient to have kept her in ease. she used freely in the support of needy enterprises and needy people and sac rificed ordinary pleasures 50 far as she herself was concerned.
 She leaves two sons. James Edson White of Marshall. Mich, and William c. White, who was the companion and helper of his mother since the fathers death.
 On February 1S. 1915. Mrs. White met with a. severe accident at her. home near St. Helena. Cal, She tripped and fell. breaking the bone 1n her left thigh.