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Turn Back the Clock
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Chapter 1—Tell Me About the Olden Days
- 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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Chapter 2—How Did You Answer God’s Call?
- 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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Chapter 3—Tell Me About the Visions
- 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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Chapter 4—What was Your Home Like?
- 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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Chapter 5—Tell Me About Your Boys
- 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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Chapter 6—Did You Have Vacations?
- 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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Chapter 7—Could I Read Some of the Letters You Wrote to Your Children?
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Chapter 8—Did You Write to Your Grandchildren?
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Chapter 9—Tell Me Some Travel Stories
- 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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Chapter 10—Tell Me More About Your Travels
- 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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Chapter 11—What Should I Eat?
- 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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Chapter 12—Tell Me About Bible Study and Prayer
- 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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Chapter 13—Some More Questions I’d Like to Ask
- 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!