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Ellen G. White in Europe

Between the summers of and , Pastor Dores A. Delafield and his wife, Evelyn, conducted seminar-type meetings with ministers, teachers, and laymen throughout Western and Eastern Europe. Often their journeys took them to towns and cities where Ellen White lived and labored between the years and Ellen G. White in Europe is the first serious attempt ever to put into print the record of those eventful years when Mrs. White labored so tirelessly on the European continent. Her influence was felt in the evangelistic and institutional expansion of Seventh-day Adventist witnessing in eight European countries. As a preacher and counselor she participated in important conference sessions. She lectured in the major Adventist churches in Europe, meanwhile carrying forward a vast literary work, the influence of which is still felt around the world. Mrs. White appears in this volume not simply as a Christian laborer on the European scene, but as the Lord's sp

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White, Ellen G(ould) [Harmon] ()

Co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church

Ellen Harmon was born and reared in Gorham, Maine, in a devout Christian home. Her father was an exhorter in the Methodist Church, and her Christian experience was nurtured in Methodist class meetings. Having accepted the teaching of William Miller regarding the imminent return of the Lord, the family was forced out of the Methodist Church. In Ellen married James vit, a fellow Millerite, and together they consolidated the group of Millerites that became the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Michigan in Although she was never ordained and did not hold formal administrative office, she was accepted as a messenger of the Lord and exerted powerful influence in the ung church. Largely under her influence the church developed a worldwide view of its uppdrag and particular ideals regarding education and health, using them and Christian literature to propagate the meddelande. In due course these views gav

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Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church along with her husband James and close friend Joseph Bates. Mrs. White is also known as a messenger from God. She was born Ellen Gould Harmon in Gorham, Maine, November 26, , to Robert and Eunice Harmon. She and her twin sister Elizabeth were the youngest of eight children. When Ellen was in her early teens she and her family accepted the Bible interpretations of the Baptist farmer-turned-preacher, William Miller. Along with Miller and 50, other Ad-ventists, she suffered bitter disappointment when Christ did not return on October 22, , the date marking the end of the day prophecy of Daniel 8.

In December God gave young Ellen the first of an estimated 2, visions and dreams. In August she married James White, a year-old Adventist minister who shared her conviction that God had called her to do the work of a prophet. Soon after their marriage the Whites began to keep the seventh-day Sabbath accordin