Biography of Elena White

Chapter 1 Biography of Elena White E. White lived an amazingly long and fruitful life. Being a living witness and a direct participant in the origin and formation of the Adventist Church, she saw with her own eyes how the providence of God contributed to the rapid development of the Adventist movement around the world. Her whole life is a tireless work in the name of the Church.

These are numerous trips, constant performances, boiling literary activity. Her inspired Peru owns more than fifty books, about four thousand printed articles, hundreds of reports. Being an American by origin, she spends for many years away from her homeland, blessedly working in Europe, Australia. Early childhood passed a few miles from the small town of Gorkham, Men. When Elena was seven years old, her parents moved to Portland, in the same state.

Here Robert harmonicon acquired a small hat workshop. Here Elena began to go to school. She was already nine years old, when a case occurred in her life, which became almost fatal for her. Returning somehow from school, Elena felt a strong blow in the face. One of the girls is unknown for what angry at Elena, she threw a stone at her. The blow fell into the nose. The injury was so serious that Elena could not even continue her school education, although she repeatedly tried to do it.

From that moment on, all Elena’s thoughts were aimed at looking for peace with God. Gradually, she left the spiritual crisis caused by the disease, and in the year she was baptized in the Pacific Gulf, became a member of the Methodist Church. In the year, Miller repeatedly preached about the second coming of Christ, to which, according to his estimates, a few months remained.

The Hormone family, convinced by Miller’s prophetic calculations, warmly accepted the Adventist news, although this led to a break with the methodologist church. But it was Wett by the moment Elena Gorona could maintain faith and vigor of the spirit, with even more jealousy continuing to pray to God, confident that he would help his people in this test. Already in December, literally a few days after the “great disappointment”, Elena Goron was given the first prophetic vision.

This happened during the prayer in the house of Sister Hins in Portland. In this vision, the harmonicon saw a narrow straight path rising above the ground, along which the chosen people slowly rose to heavenly Jirusalem. Their joint activity in God's work began. Even before the marriage of E White met the active figure of the "Miller movement", the former captain Joseph Bates, who observed Saturday as a holy day of the Lord.

And when in the fall of the year, together with the MCG, they read Bates’s treatise “Seventh Day - Saturday, an eternal sign”, doubts about the importance of this truth were dissipated by them. In April, the UAIT was given an amazing vision in which she was shown in the ark of the ten -word law, and the fourth commandment was surrounded by radiance. In the year, E. White takes part in five, so-called Saturday conferences, which have passed mainly to the all-eastern states.

At these conferences, the main doctrinal provisions of the nascent church were developed. Of the printed works of this period, only the “word to the“ small herd ”” should be noted. It published brief descriptions of the visions of E. Uait; The rationale for these vimdenii Joseph Bates, as well as a number of Stata James White by the latter seven ulcers from the book Revelation and events associated with the second coming of Christ.

In November, E. White, in the vision of Kasano, about the need to spread the truth of God through printing. But where to get sabrinas? Completely relying on God, James Wait in the summer of the year prints a thousand copies of the first issue of the journal "Eye -Hungry Truth", taking money on credit. The Lord blessed this holy undertaking. Shortly after the distribution of the magazine, the collective farm E.

White began to receive the necessary funds for business, as well as joyful messages about the appeal of people to God. A year later, the circulation of the magazine increased. White: “Brief essays of the Christian experience and visions of E. From the year, the Wight's wife live and work in Rochester, the state of New York. Here they rent a house, while using it as a printing house.

In the same year, the magazine“ YUS INTRODUCTOR ”begins. White and family moved to Batl-Krick, Michigan, where he was built before their arrival. The building is a printing house. The move to Batl Crick became a decisive milestone in the development of the Adventist movement. Here the first “evidence” began to be printed, which over time amounted to nine volumes of “evidence for the Church”, with a total complexity of five thousand printed pages.

Batl-Krick became the center of developing activities. Here, for the first time, the more or less constant leadership of the Adventist movement was formed. Having settled in Michigan, E. In March! Six months later, a small book entitled "The Great Struggle between Christ and Satan, between the Angels of Christ and the Angels of Satan, was published.Subsequently, in numerous visions, Elena White opened many details that significantly complemented and enriched the “great struggle” published in the year.

In addition to literary work, E. White paid the most serious attention to the issue of organizing the Church, the creation of a single governing body. In the spring of the year, in many states, local conferences are held that contribute to the formation of the structural organization of the church in certain states. In May, the General Conference in Batl Cryca took place. It was on this gesture that the General Conference of the Church of Adventists seventh -day, as the leading body of the Church, was created.

The name "Adventists of the seventh day" was adopted earlier, in September of the year, at one of the meetings in Batl Cryca. Behind the boiling church activity, for the creation of many books, it is sometimes difficult for us to see E. White just as a woman, as a mother who had her personal problems, family joys and sorrows. And such blows fell to her lot, after which any woman would give her hands.

In the year, at the age of only a few months, her youngest son Herbert dies. In the fall of the year, from severe pneumonia at the age of sixteen, the eldest son of Henry dies. Before the family had time to move away from this blow, Willy gets pneumonia. There was something to come into despair when the life of this boy hung in the balance. In these difficult moments, E. White did not leave hope for God, and after the recovery of Willy, with even greater zeal, she began to be a holy work entrusted to her by the Lord.