A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health
- Contents- Key to Abbreviations
- Chronology of Events
- A Word to the Reader
- On Writing and Reading History
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Putting Prophetess of Health in Perspective
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Chapter 1—A Prophetess Is Born
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Chapter 2—In Sickness And Health
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Chapter 3—The Health Reformers
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Chapter 4—Dansville Days
- What Did Adventists Know in 1863?
- What Did James and Ellen White Know?
- The Health Reform Vision and Its Publication
- What Did Ellen White Borrow?
- Inspiration and Borrowed Phraseology
- The Visit to Dr. Jackson’s Dansville Institution
- Willie’s Phrenological Examination
- The American Costume and the Reform Dress
- After Dansville
- Health or How to Live Pamphlets
- Illness of Health Reformers
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Chapter 5—The Western Health Reform Institute
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Chapter 6—Short Skirts And Sex
- Short Skirts and Pants
- Ellen White Initiates a Reform Dress
- The Length of the Skirt
- Reform Dress at the Institute
- The Flight to Northern Michigan
- Length of the American Costume
- Reaction to the Reform Dress
- Artificial Hair Pieces
- “Phrenological Allusions”
- Teachings on Sex
- A Significant Omission
- An Absence of Incontrovertible Evidence
- Vital Force
- Graham’s and Fowler’s Teaching on Sex
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Chapter 7—Whatsoever Ye Eat Or Drink
- One Statement and Its Historical Setting
- The Two-Meal System
- Diet and Sex Drive
- Did Mrs. White Copy
- Domestic Wine
- A Little Tea
- Was Kellogg a Threat to E. G. White
- Did Ellen White Backslide on Health Reform
- The Anti-Meat Pledge
- Did She Change Her Teachings?
- Butter.
- Milk
- Eggs
- Cheese
- Dr. Kellogg’s Help
- Ellen White in Her Last Years
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Chapter 8—Fighting The Good Fight
- Slanderous Charges Against Ellen White
- Value of Public Relation Agent
- The Menopause and the Open Visions
- Ellen White’s Grief
- Ellen C. White Praying for the Sick
- Counsel Regarding Employing X-ray
- A Narrow Sectarian Spirit
- Health Foods and Corn Flakes
- The Chicago Buildings
- The Testimony Not Sent
- Miss Fanny Bolton
- Physician’s Questions Unanswered
- The Closing Paragraphs
- Postscript—A Word On Behalf Of Ellen White As A Person
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Appendix A—Ellen G. White Answers Questions on the Health Reform Vision The Review and Herald, October 8, 1867
- Appendix B—Writing Out The Light On Health Reform
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Appendix C—An Appeal To Mothers: The Great Cause Of The Physical, Mental, And Moral Ruin Of Many Of The Children Of Our Time
- Introductory Remarks
- Appeal to Mothers
- Further Testimony We have thought proper to add to the foregoing the following testimonies from men of high standing and authority in the medical world, corroborative of the views presented in the preceding pages. And in justice to the writer of these pages, we would say that she had read nothing from the authors here quoted, and had read no other works on this subject, previous to putting into our hands what she has written. She is not, therefore, a copyist, although she has stated important tr…
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Appendix D—The 1864 Visit to Dr. Jackson’s Institution at Dansville
- Appendix E—The Spirit of Prophecy and the Cause of Reform
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Appendix F—Toward A Factual Concept of Inspiration
- Adventists Uniquely Fortunate
- God and the Prophets
- Visions and Bearing Testimony
- How the Light Came to the Prophet
- Under the Guidance of the Holy Spirit
- The Revelation Infallible—Vehicles of Thought Finite and Imperfect
- Sources of the Prophet’s Information
- Ellen White Views History
- Regarding Details of Minor Consequence
- History and the Details of History
- An Illustration
- How Far Can We Depend on Mrs. White
- E. G. White Appraisal of History Presented by the Prophetic Writers
- Chronological Problems
- Statements in the Field of Science and Geology
- Similarity of Concepts No Indication of Source
- Recalled by the Aid of the Spirit
- The Relation of the Testimony to the Visions
- The Question of What Is Inspired
- Ellen G. White Biographical Writings