A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health

Key to Abbreviations

Chronology of Events

A Word to the Reader

On Writing and Reading History

Putting Prophetess of Health in Perspective

I. The Crux of the Issue

II. A Look At Some Of The Prime Witnesses

III. The Missing Exhibits

IV. Importance Of A Proper Concept Of A Prophet And Their Work

V. The Matter Of Plagiarism

VI. Involvement of Denominational Agencies in Preparation of Prophetess of Health

VII. The Significance of the Book

Chapter 1—A Prophetess Is Born

The Shut Door Matter

The Visions

The 1851 Time

Deleting Shut Door Teachings

Chapter 2—In Sickness And Health

Consulting Physicians

Dietetic Counsels

Civil War Involvement and Speculations

Chapter 3—The Health Reformers

Phrenology

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

Chapter 5—The Western Health Reform Institute

Adventists Launch a Medical Institution

Plans for Enlarging the Battle Creek Institution

The New Building

The Program at the Institute

James and Ellen White Stand in Support

J. H. Kellogg and the Battle Creek Sanitarium

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

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

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

Appendix A—Ellen G. White Answers Questions on the Health Reform Vision The Review and Herald, October 8, 1867

Questions and Answers.

Appendix B—Writing Out The Light On Health Reform

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…

Appendix D—The 1864 Visit to Dr. Jackson’s Institution at Dansville

A Letter to the Lockwoods

The Adelia Patten Letter

Dr. Jackson’s Report On The Examination Of Willie C. White

Appendix E—The Spirit of Prophecy and the Cause of Reform

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

Appendix F—Toward A Factual Concept of Inspiration

This closing chapter of <em>Prophetess of Health</em> presents a strange mixture of materials.

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Chapter 8—Fighting The Good Fight