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    Did The Neighbors Ever Feel Differently Toward You?

    The neighbors’ fears were often aroused by frequent thunder and lightning that summer. A number had been killed instantly. And if there was an appearance of a thunderstorm, some parents sent their children to our house inviting one of the family to visit them, and stay until the storm was over. The children innocently told the whole story: “for ma says the lightning will not strike a house where the Advent people are.”LASW 16.2

    One night there was a fearful storm. The heavens presented a continual sheet of lightning. A few rushed from their beds into the street, calling upon God for mercy, saying, “The judgment day has come.” My brother Robert went out of the house and walked to the head of the street, praising the Lord. He said he never prized the hope of the Christian as he did that night, as he saw the terror of those who had no hope in Christ. 18Spiritual Gifts 2:81-82.LASW 16.3

    Answering God’s Call

    God sent Ellen Harmon a companion, helper, and protector in the person of James White, a young Adventist preacher whom she met and to whom she was married.LASW 17.1

    James White was born in Palmyra, Maine, August 4, 1821. He grew up on a farm, the middle child in a family of nine. His father, Deacon John White, took pride in displaying a pair of silver knee buckles that had been handed down through the generations from the father of Peregrine White, who came to the shores of America on the Mayflower.LASW 17.2

    James was a feeble child, with poor eyesight, but he longed for an education. In the late teens his health improved, and he went to school at St. Albans and Reedfield, Maine. He wrote, “I wore old clothes, while my classmates wore new, and lived three months on cornmeal pudding prepared by myself, and a few raw apples, while they enjoyed the conveniences and luxuries of the boarding house. With the close of this term, also closed my school studies. I have attended high school, in all, twenty-nine weeks.”LASW 17.3

    This farm boy became a teacher before he was twenty-one. Through the influence of his godly mother he accepted and began to preach the message of Jesus’ soon coming. In one winter more than a thousand people were won to Christ through his ministry. It was during this work of preaching that he met and, at the age of twenty-five, married Ellen Harmon.LASW 17.4

    James White became a great church leader. Three times he was elected president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He refused public positions of honor in the world, for he had dedicated his entire strength to the cause of God.LASW 17.5

    Together James and his wife, Ellen G. White, worked all their lives that many might be saved in the kingdom of God.LASW 17.6

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