Chapter 21—Busy Closing Years
Ellen G. White: A Brief Biography
- Contents- Chapter 1—Who Was Ellen G. White?
- Chapter 2—The Early Years
- Chapter 3—The Advent Message
- Chapter 4—Marriage of James White and Ellen Harmon
- Chapter 5—Beginning to Publish
- Chapter 6—The Move to Battle Creek
- Chapter 7—The “Great Controversy” Vision
- Chapter 8—The Home in Battle Creek
- Chapter 9—The Health Reform Vision
- Chapter 10—The Work Expands
- Chapter 11—Battle Creek College
- Chapter 12—Writing and Traveling
- Chapter 13—Death of James White
- Chapter 14—Ellen White Visits Europe
- Chapter 15—The Great Controversy and Patriarchs and Prophets
- Chapter 16—Called to Australia
- Chapter 17—The Avondale School
- Chapter 18—Medical Work Begun
- Chapter 19—African-American Outreach
- Chapter 20—Return to the United States
- Chapter 21—Busy Closing Years
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Chapter 21—Busy Closing Years
Late in 1905 The Ministry of Healing, a book dealing with the healing of body, mind, and soul, came from the press. Education had been published in 1903, and two volumes of the Testimonies for the Church, volumes 7 and 8, were issued in 1902 and 1904, respectivelyEGWBB 9.3
During her stay in Washington, Mrs. White encouraged church workers in southern California to secure property for a sanitarium in Loma Linda, and she called for the opening of medical missionary educational work on the Pacific Coast. During the next few years Ellen White frequently interrupted her book work for trips to Loma Linda to encourage the workers there, and to the Paradise Valley Sanitarium near San Diego, which she had helped to establish in 1903.EGWBB 9.4
At the age of 81 Mrs. White traveled again to Washington, attending the General Conference session in 1909. At the conference she spoke a number of times in a clear, firm voice. After this meeting, in fulfillment of a long-felt desire in her heart, she visited her old home city of Portland, Maine. There she again bore her testimony in that historic place where her work had had its beginning 65 years earlier. This was her last trip to the eastern states, and it made a lasting and vivid impression on the many Seventh-day Adventists who heard her speak or who met her at the General Conference session.EGWBB 9.5
Realizing that her remaining days were few, when Ellen White returned to Elmshaven she intensified her efforts to bring out a number of books presenting essential instruction to the church. Testimonies for the Church, volume 9, was published in 1909. In 1911 The Acts of the Apostles appeared. In 1913 Counsels to Parents and Teachers was issued, and in 1914 the manuscript for Gospel Workers was finished and sent to the press. The closing active months of Mrs. White’s life were devoted to the book Prophets and Kings.EGWBB 9.6
On the morning of February 13, 1915, as Ellen White was entering her comfortable study room at Elmshaven, she tripped and fell, and was unable to rise. Help was summoned, and it soon became clear that the accident was serious. An X-ray examination disclosed a break in the left hip, and for five months Mrs. White was confined to her bed or wheelchair.EGWBB 9.7
Her words to friends and relatives during the closing weeks of her life indicated a feeling of cheerfulness, a sense of having faithfully performed the work God had entrusted to her, and confidence that the cause of truth would finally triumph.EGWBB 9.8
The life of Ellen White ended July 16, 1915, at the age of 87 years. She was laid to rest at the side of her husband in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan.EGWBB 10.1
Ellen White lived to see the Advent movement grow from a handful of believers to a world-wide membership of 136,879 that, by 2000, had exceeded 11 million.EGWBB 10.2