Arizona republican., 1915-07-17
A PROPIIETESS
 OF LATTER DAYS
Her Church Was a Dcyel- opment from the Teach ings of William Miller, Head of Milierites Scv- cnty-five Years Ago
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

ST. HELENA, Cal, July 16--Mrs
 Ellen White. one of the founders or the Seventh Day Adventists, died to- day aged SS. She was seriously in
 jured in February by fall.
 Mrs Ellen C. White was one of Ithe founders of the denomination known as Seventh-Day Adventists. She was one of the converts of Will
 liam Miller, who in the early '4os aroused thousands to q belief in the speedy advent or second coming of Christ According to information giv- len out by the North American Divi- sion Conference of the SeventhDay Adventists. Mrs. White was consid- cred by practically all Seventh-DaE Adventists as their prophecies.
 Born in Gorham. Cumberland coun- ty. Maine. November 26, 1927, she had lived to the advanced age of S8 years Her maiden name was Ellen Gould Harmon. and she was one of eight children, who like their par cnts became stauqch Methodists in New England At the age of nine years the girl. who had shown re markable mental powers, was struck in the face by stone which schoolmatc. in sheer wantonness. had thrown at her fracturing the nasal bone and resulting in an almost fatal illness and permanent disfigurement. The calamity. which made her almost unrecognizable among her friends, wore upon her heart. and she turned with great yearning to the worship of Christ
 In March 184O, she first heard William Miller. q Baptist evangelist, tell of the second coming of Christ, which he was then predicting for IS43. She was greatly stirred by the evangelist's message and consecrated her life toward spreading it. and, as she claimed in December. 1S44. God gave her vision of the second com ing of Christ. and added as her in depreciation of the Bible that 1t was her duty to observe the Seventh Day Sabbath. as she believed it was so observed by Christ. She and her husband. whom she married about this time, and who was one of the believers, therefore began the obser- vance of the seventh day, and taught this in their meetings which even tuaIly were held all over the country. While they believed that Christ's coming was near, they did not be- lieVe that men knew the date of the event. and so never taught or had any sympathy with time setting Her husband was James White. lineaI descendant on his fathers side of Peregrine White, born on the May i flower in the harbor of Cape Cod, | before the Pilgrims had made their homes in the wildernes. Mr. White l died in 1881, but Mrs. White kept on ! with her revelations.
 paragraph from a story given ! out in official quarters as to her re ma rkablc powers. reads:
 While in vision she was repeatedly | examined by skeptics. unsympathetic ! and by one physician con versant with spiritistic manifestations i who had boasted that he could inn bring her out of vision, but ! who was compelled to leave the house in alarm. Other men had the i same experience. Mirrors and candles , nave been held before her mouth . while talking showing no indication i If breathing One skeptical man held | her nostrils tightly closed with hand i over her mouth for ten minutes with put in any way affecting Mrs. White At times she arose and walked the floor talking of what she was there 
 She believed in the ultimate an-
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