Also, the Holy Spirit impressed her at times to draw literary gems from the works of others into her own articles and books. She found that this helped her in her own writing as she presented the truths revealed to her in vision. Her health counsels, based on such visions, have resulted in Adventists’ living approximately seven years longer than the average person in the United States.Įllen White read widely. White was given instruction on such health-related matters as the use of drugs, tobacco, tea, coffee, flesh foods, and the importance of exercise, sunshine, fresh air, and self-control in diet. In 1876 she addressed her largest audience-estimated at 20,000-at Groveland, Massachusetts, for more than an hour without a microphone. She was much in demand in Adventist meetings and also before non-Adventist audiences, where she was a much-sought-after temperance lecturer. Initially shy and reluctant, Ellen White eventually became a very popular public speaker, not only in the United States, but in Europe and Australia as well. She also authored several thousand articles which were published in the Review and Herald, Signs of the Times, and other Seventh-day Adventist periodicals. Since her death about 50 compilations have been produced, in large part from previously unpublished writings. She also published books on education, health, and other topics of special significance to the church. Still others are historical and trace the ongoing struggle between Christ and Satan for control of individuals and nations. Of her scores of books, some are devotional in nature, while others are selections from the many personal letters of counsel she wrote over the years. She wrote a steady stream of articles, books, and pamphlets until her death in 1915. Her other two sons, Edson and William, both became Adventist ministers.Įllen White was a prolific writer, with a total literary output of 100,000 pages. Herbert died as an infant a few weeks old, and Henry died at 16. White suffered the pain of losing two of her sons. Soon after their marriage the Whites began to keep the seventh-day Sabbath according to the fourth commandment. In August 1846 she married James White, a 25-year-old Adventist minister who shared her conviction that God had called her to do the work of a prophet. In December 1844 God gave young Ellen the first of an estimated 2,000 visions and dreams. Along with Miller and 50,000 other Ad-ventists, she suffered bitter disappointment when Christ did not return on October 22, 1844, the date marking the end of the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8. When Ellen was in her early teens she and her family accepted the Bible interpretations of the Baptist farmer-turned-preacher, William Miller. She and her twin sister Elizabeth were the youngest of eight children. She was born Ellen Gould Harmon in Gorham, Maine, November 26, 1827, to Robert and Eunice Harmon. White is also known as a messenger from God. White was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church along with her husband James and close friend Joseph Bates.
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