Your ShelfYour Projects

WHAT CALIFORNIA THINKS OF ELD. WHITE AND WIFE

17%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 7, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 23.

Read the full edition

WHAT CALIFORNIA THINKS OF ELD. WHITE AND WIFE.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Oakland, Cal., for several years past has been the home and head-quarters of Bro. and Sr. White. Their connection with the large tent-meetings at first, and the great temperance movement in the city at that time, their position as public speakers, their labors in building up a prosperous Seventh-day Adventist church in that city, together with a good meeting-house, and particularly Bro. White’s extensive business transactions in establishing and conducting the Pacific Press in that city,—all these things have made them well known there. The Oakland Evening Democrat, of May 11, 1877, thus states how they are regarded on that coast:—

“PERSONAL.

“Eld. James White, President of the organization known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with his wife, both powerful speakers, left this morning for Battle Creek, Mich., where is located the College and Theological Seminary of that denomination, of which Eld. White is also the official head. It may probably be truthfully said that he is the master spirit of that organization in the world. He has in a very short time built up a strong organization on this coast, built a fine church edifice here and in San Francisco, organized and equipped one of the largest and most complete publishing houses in the country. He also manages another and larger house in Battle Creek. As a business man his integrity is spotless; no breath of reproach even having tarnished it; as a citizen he is enterprising and an honor to our city; in all the relations of life, upright, honorable and pure. We wish him and his able wife and helper, a safe and pleasant journey, and a speedy return to this their home by the Golden Gate.”
We are glad that it is the privilege of God’s servants to live in such a manner as to command the respect and esteem of the community where they are best known. This has been the case with Eld. White and wife wherever they have lived. The moral character and business integrity of no public man or private citizen in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he has lived for twenty years, stands higher than that of Eld. James White. This I personally know to be true.
D. M. CANRIGHT.