Ellen G. White

was born in Gorham, Maine Nov. 26, 1827 and died

July 16, 1915. A Methodist until aged 17, she was very

influential in the early Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Only a teenager when the followers of William Miller

suffered their "Great Disappointment" when Jesus

Christ failed to appear in the clouds of heaven on

October 22, 1844, she was part of a group that went

on to study and pray and search for further "Light".

........For Sister Ellen, a sickly, sensitive, and very

religious person, the answer to these prayers came

in the form of rapturous visions of angels and heaven

and Jesus Himself.......During these visions, which

often occurred in meetings, or when she was not

alone, she would often seem to stop breathing, could

perform feats of strength far beyond her usual frail

health, and would sometimes cry out "Glory, glory"

as her eyes and brain were recording scenes that

no one else was seeing.

........Remember now, this was 50 years before the

Fatima visions, and 40 + years before the Pentecostal

revival associated with Azuza Street.....Ellen White

became a very Charismatic speaker, and could hold

large crowds spell-bound without loud speakers and

microphones, unavailable most of her lifetime.

Even were she to have had no visions, nor to have

been so involved in church leadership, she would

have had a place in history as a well-know speaker

in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the

subjects of Temperence and Health.

.......To Seventh-day Adventists, she is "The Prophetess",

her many books nick-named "The Spirit of Prophecy",

and imparted, rightly or wrongly, with near infallibility.

We will be examining part of one of these books, and

some of these visionary prophecies, no doubt in a

manner that will distress many Seventh-day Adventists,

on this WEB-SITE.