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Life Sketches of Ellen G. White

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 47.

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Life Sketches of Ellen G. White

The following description of this book has been furnished us by Elder W. C. White:—
The story of the early Christian experience and public labors of Mrs. Ellen G. White was first printed in the year 1860, in a little volume of three hundred pages, entitled “My Christian Experience, Views, and Labors in Connection With the Rise and Progress of the Third Angel’s Message.”
This narrative of her life and labors to 1860, was amplified by her, and in 1880 was republished as a part of a larger work entitled “Life Sketches of James White and Ellen G. White.” This, as well as the earlier autobiography, has long been out of print.
“Life Sketches of Ellen G. White” gives in her own language a brief story of her childhood days, her conversion, and her early Christian life and thrilling experiences in connection with the great second advent movement of 1840-44. Mrs. White tells in a vivid way the sorrows and joys of her youthful ministry in the years that followed the disappointment which came to those in the 1844 movement. She pictures the trials, the struggles, and the successes that attended the labors of a few earnest souls who began at once to raise up the churches that afterwards united to form the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.
The story of her more extended travels and labors in connection with her husband, Elder James White, she briefly relates from the time of their marriage, in 1846, to his death, in 1881.
With chapter 42, on page 255, the relation of her life story is taken up by C. C. Crisler, who, with the assistance of W. C. White and D. E. Robinson, has completed the sketch.
In the closing chapters many interesting incidents regarding travels and labors have been told briefly, that place might be found for the quotation of some of her most inspiring and instructive utterances regarding the development of Christian experience, and the duty laid upon every follower of Christ to be a true disciple of him who gave his life for the salvation of the world.
The following chapter titles give the scope of the book, and will impress any one with the importance and value of this publication:—
I. Childhood,
II. Conversion.
III. Strivings Against Doubt.
IV. Beginning of Public Labors.
V. Separation From the Church.
VI. The Disappointment of 1843-44.
VII. My First Vision.
VIII. Call to Travel.
IX. Answers to Prayer.
X. Labors in New Hampshire.
XI. Meeting Fanaticism.
XII. The Sabbath of the Lord.
XIII. Marriage and United Labors.
XIV. Struggles With Poverty.
XV. Labors in Western New York.
XVI. View of the Sealing.
XVII. Encouraging Providences.
XVIII. Beginning to Publish.
XIX. Visiting the Scattered Flock.
XX. Publishing Again.
XXI. In Rochester, N. Y.
XXII. Advancing Under Difficulties.
XXIII. Removal to Michigan.
XXIV. Labors in the Middle West—1856-58.
XXV. Personal Trials.
XXVI. Battling Against Disease.
XXVII. Conflicts and Victory.
XXVIII. Among the Churches in New England.
XXIX. Reclaiming the Lost.
XXX. Traveling the Narrow Way.
XXXI. Burden Bearers.
XXXII. A Solemn Dream.
XXXIII. Missionary Work.
XXXIV. Broader Plans.
XXXV. Into All the World.
XXXVI. Circulating the Printed Page.
XXXVII. Public Labors in 1877.
XXXVIII. Visit to Oregon.
XXXIX. From State to State.
XL. A View of the Judgment.
XLI. The Death of Elder James White.
XLII. Fortitude Under Affliction.
XLIII. Restoration of Health.
XLIV. Writing and Speaking.
XLV. Labors in Central Europe.
XLVI. Labors in Great Britain and Scandinavia.
XLVII. In Confirmation of Confidence.
XLVIII. Danger of Adopting Worldly Policy in the Work of God.
XLIX. Across the Pacific.
L. The First Australian Camp Meeting.
LI. The Avondale School.
LII. Through the South to the Conference of 1901.
LIII. At the Nation’s Capital.
LIV. In Southern California.
LV. The San Francisco Earthquake.
LVI. At the 1909 General Conference.
LVII. Closing Labors.
LVIII. Last Sickness.
LIX. In Memoriam.
The book is being printed on thin paper, and bound as follows:—
Cloth ........................................ $1.00
Limp leather .................................. 1.50
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