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A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health

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    Chapter 1—A Prophetess Is Born

    This largely biographical chapter is written in an interesting style and is informative. The biographical data is for the most part accurate, but interpretations of certain experiences are in some instances over-stressed and in others the conclusions are unsupported and quite misleading.CBPH 33.8

    Ellen Harmon and good health—On page 2 after mentioning Ellen Harmon’s childhood experience in picking up a scrap of paper which predicted the near end of the world and referring to her accident at the age of nine it is stated: “For the remainder of Ellen’s long life, good health and Christ’s second coming were uppermost in her mind.”CBPH 33.9

    This sweeping rhetorical sentence gives the incorrect impression that her girlhood accident made the subject of health uppermost in her mind. There is no evidence that because of the accident she focused her attention unduly on health. Except for the fact that she off and on suffered ill health for a number of years, the documentation in our files would lead us to conclude that her interest in health lines was no different than that of her contemporaries. If she had been an avid health buff in the years 1836 to 1860, why was it that with Graham, Alcott, Coles, etc., in the land neither her supposed interest nor the interest of her friends led her to a knowledge of their work? She is strangely silent on this topic said to be uppermost in her mind. At no time did she link the experience of her childhood accident with her interest in health. At no time between the time of the accident and the time of the vision thirty years later did she manifest any unusual interest in healthful living.CBPH 33.10

    Only once in her long life did she look back to make mention of picking up the piece of paper. The reader should be alert to the frequent broad assertions sparked by casual or isolated Ellen G. White statements.CBPH 33.11

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