Who was Ellen G. White?

is Mrs. Ellen G. White, whose late husband, Elder White, was for long their leader. “The Visions of Mrs. E.G.White, a Manifestation of Spiritual Gifts according to the Scriptures,” is the title of a book of 144 pages, published by the Adventists defending her inspiration. Of her own words she blasphemously writes: “It is God, and not an erring mortal, that has spoken” (Testimonies, Vol. III., p. 257).

It was an hysterical woman—Mrs White—who by her blasphemous pretensions has been the leader, and largely the inventor, of that wicked system—Seventh-Day Adventism.

Bible teaching at once would lead us to suspect a system of religion begun and headed by a woman. Seventh Day Adventism was begun by Mrs. White, a neurotic woman, subject to cataleptic seizures; Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy, a woman likewise subject to cataleptic seizures and a spiritualistic medium to boot. Theosophy was begun by a woman—Madame Helena Petrova Blavatsky, a spiritualistic medium born at Ekaterinoslow, South Russia, in 1831.

This parable emphasizes the fact that evil doctrine would be introduced into the Christian profession until the whole is permeated. A woman taking the lead in divine things is very generally a sign of evil, and it is significant that women have been notorious for this. Take the case of Mrs. White, a neurotic, hysterical woman, who was the chief prophetess of Seventh Day Adventism; of Mrs. Eddy, likewise neurotic, hysterical, and a spiritualistic medium, the founder of Christian Science; of Mrs. Blavatsky, a spiritualist medium, the introducer of modern Theosophy; of Mrs. Besant, the erstwhile infidel, her successor; of Ann Lee, of Shaker fame, and so on. Take Jezebel, as referred to in Revelation 2:20, and whose spiritual significance is delineated in Revelation 17, as a case in point.

The Testimonies, Mrs. White’s writings, are assigned a place of inspiration—a sort of Appendix to the Bible. The same writer says: “A text from her writings is an end of all controversy in doctrine and discipline. It is common to hear them say that when they give up her visions they will give up the Bible too, and they generally do.” This is the testimony of one, who for long had been one of their prominent preachers and writers.

We have modern-day examples of this same approach of Satan through "the weaker vessel." Seventh Day Adventists had for their leader the late Mrs. White, a woman notorious for her hypnotic visions. Christian Scientists had for their founder and leader the notorious money-making thrice-married Mrs. Eddy, subject to strange cataleptic seizures. We would say nothing about these misfortunes, if it was not that these women took the place of founding religions, that are antichristian and responsible for a vast amount of deception and misery in this world. These seizures of Mrs. White and Mrs. Eddy from a medical point of view would make them less reliable in their judgment and actions. Then again Theosophy was popularized in the Western world by Madame Blavatsky, a Russian, and a spiritist medium of dishonest habits. When she passed off the scene, she was succeeded by Mrs. Besant, a leader in infidel propaganda, who became converted to these strange Buddhist beliefs. It is a well-known fact that often for one male medium in spiritist circles there are ten female mediums. All down the ages Satan has been trying his earliest tactics as seen in his temptation of our first parents.

Dr. William Russell, a chief physician in the Seventh-Day Sanatorium at Battle Creek, long a Seventh-Day Adventist, wrote in 1869 that Mrs. White’s visions were the result of a diseased organization or condition of the brain or nervous system.” Dr. Fairfield, likewise an Adventist, and for years a physician in the same Sanatorium, wrote in 1887 that he had no doubt that her visions were simply hysterical trances. Age itself has almost cured her.”}

How the Adventists became Seventh-Day Adventists

And now to come to the point where the movement earned the title of Seventh-Day Adventism.

Mrs. White at first refused to believe that the Fourth Commandment was more binding than any other. Elder Bates urged its great importance until Mrs. White had a convenient vision, in which she asserted she was taken to heaven, and shown the sanctuary and its appointments. A description of her vision is given: “Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and she beheld the tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. She was amazed as she saw the Fourth Commandment in the very centre of the ten precepts, with a soft halo of light encircling it.”

Hence she calls on her followers to worship God as Creator on the seventh day. One looks in vain for any real sense of Christianity in her writings. Worship for her is connected with the claims of the Creator, whilst worship, founded on redemption, is ignored.

Such are Christadelphianism, originated by Dr. Thomas; Millennial Dawnism, originated by the late self-styled “Pastor” Russell; Seventh Day Adventism, originated by Wm. Miller and carried on by the hypochondriacal Mrs. White; Mormonism, originated by Joseph Smith; and Christian Science, that colossal deceit, which is neither Christian nor Science, originated by the late Mrs. Eddy, to mention a few of the leading anti-Christian crank religions of the hour.

It is not a little significant that some women, who have transgressed the Scriptures, have been responsible for bringing very evil things into the world. It was a woman, Mrs. Eddy, who introduced that frightfully evil system into the world, miscalled, “Christian Science,” and who gained great riches through her evil work. It was a woman, Mrs. White, who was the chief instrument in propagating “Seventh Day Adventism.” It was Mrs. Blavatsky, who introduced Theosophy to the western world. Her successor is Mrs. Besant. It is well known that for one male medium in Spiritism there are a dozen women mediums. “That woman Jezebel” stands as a figure of horrible portent in the Word of God. It seems as if women from the days of Eve were more open to Satanic snares.