“I'd Like To Ask Sister White ...”
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By Ellen Gould Whiteen
This book answers common questions you may have about Sister White. They will be answered in her own words, taken from her diaries, letters, articles, and books.
Book code: LASW
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Published by Ellen G. White Estate
ISBN:
Citation: White, E. G. (1965) “I'd Like To Ask Sister White ...”. Ellen G. White Estate.
Retrieved fromhttp://text.beta.egwwritings.org/book/b640
158 Pages
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- Contents- Our Visits
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- Sister White, Please Tell Me About Your Life When You Were A Girl.
- Were You Able To Go Back To School?
- After You Quit School, What Did You Do All Day Long?
- What Did You Do With The Money You Earned?
- Were You Strong Enough To Do Housework?
- What Church Did You Go To?
- How Did You First Hear About Jesus’ Second Coming?
- Did You Really Get To Hear William Miller?
- How Did You Feel When You Heard That Jesus Was Coming So Soon?
- Can You Remember When You Became A Christian?
- Does Everyone Find Jesus Just Like That?
- How Were You Baptized?
- What Did The Methodists Think When You Accepted The Message Of Jesus’ Soon Coming?
- Did You All Stay In The Methodist Church?
- How About Your Neighbors? Did They Like Your Religion?
- Were These Men Arrested?
- Did The Troublemakers Bother You Any More?
- Did The Neighbors Ever Feel Differently Toward You?
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- Mrs. White, Were You One Of Those Who Were Waiting For Jesus To Come Back In 1843 And 1844?
- Weren’t You Terribly Disappointed When Jesus Didn’t Come?
- What Was The Work That Jesus Called You To Do?
- What Happened When You First Tried To Speak To The People?
- When Did You Get Married?
- Mrs. White, Weren’t You Sick A Lot In Those Days?
- What Was It Like In The Beginning Days Of Your Work?
- You Attended Many Meetings In The Years That Followed, Didn’t You? Tell Me About Some Of Them.
- Did You Go To Camp Meetings Too?
- Did You Ever Hold A Meeting In A Prison?
- Did You Sometimes Have Children’s Meetings?
- Were They Baptized?
- They Baptized A Lot Of Young People, Didn’t They!
- When You Were A Girl Were You Afraid To Talk To Your Friends About Your Religion?
- How Did You Find Time To Do Your Writing?
- Many Times You Wrote That You Could Not Sleep At Night. What Did You Think About During Those Long Hours, Especially When You Were Sick?
- Did You Get Rich From Writing So Many Books?
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- What Was It Like When You Had A Vision?
- Sister White, Were Others Sometimes With You When You Had Your Visions?
- Is It True That You Really Did Not Breathe While In Vision?
- When Did You First Begin To Write Out What You Saw?
- You Saw Scenes In Heaven, Didn’t You, And The New Jerusalem?
- Did You Hear The Music Of Heaven?
- What Did You See In Your Very First Vision?
- How Did You Feel When The Lord Told You That You Were To Be His Special Messenger?
- Why Did You Feel Afraid?
- Was Any Sign Given To Show That God Had Called You For A Special Work?
- I’d Like To Hear About A Vision In Which You Saw Jesus.
- How About Satan? Did You Ever See Him?
- Does He Always Take The Form Of An Angel Of Light?
- Oh, That Makes Me Tremble! Do You Think God Will Take Care Of Us?
- Tell Me About The Second Coming Of Jesus.
- I Can’t Imagine What It Will Be Like! How About Children? Will Any Children Be There?
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- In The Early Days You Had To Move Around So Much. Sometimes You Must Have Had A Problem About A Home And Furniture.
- I’m Sorry You Had Such A Hard Time. When You First Moved To Battle Creek, What Did You Do?
- You Must Have Been Happy When You Moved Into Your New House On Wood Street. Did You Have Time To Enjoy It?
- How About Housework, Sewing, Cooking, Gardening, And Things Like That? Did You Have Time For Them?
- Didn’t You Get Tired, With So Much To Do?
- Besides All That, I Suppose You Had To Be The Nurse When Your Family Got Sick?
- You Were A Real Up-To-Date Nurse, Keeping Your Patient Active!
- Was Anyone In Your Family Healed By Prayer?
- When You Had Children Living In Your Home Did You Teach Them To Work?
- How Can I Help My Mother?
- Were There Any Needy People Around In Those Days? Did You Do Dorcas Work?
- Did Your Boys Enjoy Helping Others Too?
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- How Many Children Did You Have?
- Were Your Boys Interested In Pets?
- How Did You Encourage Them To Be Kind To Animals?
- Sometimes Mom And Dad Are Very Strict. Were You Strict With Your Sons?
- But Your Boys Weren’t Perfect, Were They?
- How Did They Keep Their Rooms? Did You Teach Them To Keep Their Rooms Neat And Tidy?
- Were Your Boys Tempted To Spend A Lot Of Money On Clothes?
- What Kind Of Counsel Did You Write To Your Children?
- Well, Now I Know They Weren’t Perfect! Did You Ever Punish Them?
- Did The Boys Have Playmates?
- Once In A While We Get To See Our Grandparents. Did Your Boys Live Near Their Grandmother And Grandfather?
- Wasn’t It Hard For You To Leave Your Children When They Were Young?
- Did Other People Take Care Of Them Also?
- Did You Sometimes Send Presents To Your Boys?
- You Must Have Been Happy When You Could Head For Home Again!
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- Our Family Like To Go To The Mountains For Our Vacation. Where Did You Go?
- How Did You Feel, Sister White, When You Had Your First Glimpse Of The Rocky Mountains?
- Did You See Any Indians?
- Could You Do Any Missionary Work There?
- What Did The People In The Mountains Do For A Living?
- Did You Ever Ride Horseback?
- Did You Have Any Accidents?
- Where Did You Stay During Your Vacation?
- Were You Glad When Sabbath Came?
- Tell Me About Some Of The Other Days.
- You Really Had An Exciting Time! Tell Me Some More.
- Were You Worried When Mr. Walling Did Not Come?
- Who Took Care Of The Horses?
- Did You See Any Wild Animals?
- Did Your Food Supplies Hold Out?
- Weren’t You Anxious To Get Back To Civilization?
- Did Willie Go Back To School?
- When The Storm And Snow Came, Didn’t You Think It Was Time To Pack Up And Go?
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- Mrs. White, I’d Like To Hear Some Of The Travel Stories You Wrote.
- When You Were In San Francisco Did You Go To Chinatown?
- What Else Did You See As You Traveled Around?
- Were Your Boys Ever With You When You Saw Some Of These Interesting Things?
- Did God Protect You In Times Of Danger?
- Sister White, I’d Like To Ride In A Train Sometime.
- Did You Sometimes Travel By Steamboat?
- Tell Me Another Ocean Story.
- Were You Nervous When You Had To Travel Through Storms?
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- Sister White, Do You Remember Any Special Experiences That Came To You In Your Travels?
- Did You Sometimes Have To Travel In Cold Weather?
- What Were The Roads Like?
- Did You Ever Get Stuck In A Snowstorm?
- You Must Have Been Frozen!
- Did You Ever Get Lost?
- How Could You Keep From Getting Sick, Traveling Like That Through The Snow?
- Tell Me That Story About Crossing The Mississippi!
- Didn’t You Get Discouraged Sometimes?
- Why Did You Make All These Hard Trips?
- Were All The People You Met In Your Travels Friendly?
- Did You Sometimes Meet Special People?
- Fresh Air Was One Thing You Had Plenty Of When You Traveled By Wagon. How Was It When You Began Riding On Trains?
- After All These Experiences, You Must Have Been Glad When Automobiles Were Invented.
- Did You Ever Feel That You Were Getting Too Old To Travel?
- Did You Make That Trip?
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- Sister White, What Kinds Of Food Do You Think Are Best?
- What Do You Like To Eat, Especially When You Are Traveling?
- Suppose I’m Eating At A Place Where Meat Is On The Menu?
- But What’s Wrong With Meat?
- What Else Do You Eat Besides Fruit?
- I Get Up Too Late To Eat In The Morning. Is It All Right If I Skip Breakfast?
- Don’t You Think It Is All Right For Growing Children To Have A Snack Between Meals?
- How Often Do You Eat?
- I Wonder If What I Eat Has Anything To Do With The Condition Of My Skin?
- Do You Think Girls Should Learn How To Cook?
- But Do They Have To Learn How To Bake Bread Too?
- I Like Desserts! Don’t You?
- How About Seconds On Pie?
- Mother And Daddy Talk About Health Reform. Is This Important?
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- Mrs. White, I Have Some Questions To Ask You Which I Discuss With My Teachers At School. Will You Help Me Find The Answers? First Of All About The Bible—Isn’t It Just For Big People?
- How Can Bible Stories Help Me?
- What Advice Did You Give Your Boys About What They Should Read?
- How About Comic Books And Exciting Stories?
- I Go To School And I Am Busy With Homework, Too. I Wish I Had More Time To Pray.
- But What Shall I Pray About?
- Sister White, Do You Close Your Eyes When You Pray?
- How Did You Make Family Worship Interesting For Your Children?
- Suppose I’m In A Place Where I Can’t Kneel And Pray?
- Oh, I Know The Lord’s Prayer. I Learned That In Church School!
- Does God Always Answer Our Prayers, And Give Us What We Ask For?
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- Some People Say That The Sabbath Has Been Changed. Others Don’t Worry About Keeping Any Day Holy. How About That, Sister White?
- I Like To Sleep In On Sabbath Morning.
- Sometimes It’s Hard To Behave And Be Quiet For So Long In Church.
- How Should I Dress When I Go To Church?
- What Can I Do On Sabbath Besides Go To Church?
- It Isn’t Only On Sabbath That My Parents Worry About My Clothes. Does It Really Matter How I Dress?
- It Keeps My Mother Busy Doing The Washing, Ironing, And Mending For Our Family.
- Is It Wrong To Have Nice Clothes?
- Why Can’t Children Do As They Please?
- Do You Believe In Punishing Children?
- What Can I Do To Be Really Happy?
- What Do You Think Is The Most Important Lesson Children Must Learn?
- Why Do Older People Always Talk To Me About My Habits?
- Why Is Our Church So Small, Compared With Other Churches?
- Can’t I Be Good Without Being “Religious”?
- Do You Think I Should Go To Church School?
- What Kind Of School Did Jesus Go To When He Was A Boy?
- Maybe That’s Why He Did So Much Of His Teaching Outdoors.
- I Wish I Could Go To That Kind Of School!
- Are There Some Really Beautiful Nature Scenes That You Remember?
- In The Olden Days, Did They Ever Plan Special Things For The Youth, Such As Hikes Or Nature Walks?
- My Father Says Yard Work Is Good For Me.
- How Are The Records Kept In Heaven?
- Why Do I Have Trouble And Trials When I’m Doing My Best To Follow And Obey Jesus?
- How Can I Tell If I’ll Be Strong Enough To Stand In The Time Of Trouble?
- Do You Think The Reward Will Be Worth All The Temptations And Battles We Go Through?
- Sister White, It’s Been Wonderful Talking To You. You Make Me Want To Live The Kind Of Life Jesus Wants Me To Live!