I had grown up with some ambivalence about her ministry, and didn’t often read her books. This article originally appeared in Adventist World Magazine. AH 177.3, How many dishonor Christ and misrepresent His character in the home circle! Although the cares that came upon us in connection with the publishing work and other branches of the cause involved much perplexity, the greatest sacrifice I was called to make in connection with … after about 1851. [16] Michelle Boorstein, “Prominent Virginia Pastor Who Said ‘God Is Larger than This Dreaded Virus’ Dies of Covid-19,” Washington Post, accessed April 25, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/04/13/virginia-pastor-church-dies-coronavirus/. I must meditate upon the word of God night and day and bring it into my practical life. Another prominent Christian leader ","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/80_What_Shall_We_Play.mp3#duration=937&size=7601800"},{"para_id":"128.2371","title":"Chapter 81\u2014Recreation that Yields Enduring Satisfactions","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/81_Recreation_that_Yields_Enduring_Satisfactions.mp3#duration=699&size=5700976"},{"para_id":"128.2405","title":"Chapter 82\u2014How the Christian Chooses His Recreation","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/82_How_the_Christian_Chooses_His_Recreation.mp3#duration=1151&size=9309835"},{"para_id":"128.2449","title":"Chapter 83\u2014The Lure of Pleasure","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/83_The_Lure_of_Pleasure.mp3#duration=619&size=5058732"},{"para_id":"128.2473","title":"Chapter 84\u2014Directing Juvenile Thinking Regarding Recreation","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/84_Directing_Juvenile_Thinking_Regarding_Recreation.mp3#duration=606&size=4950745"},{"para_id":"128.2497","title":"Chapter 85\u2014The Reward Here and Hereafter","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/85_The_Reward_Here_and_Hereafter.mp3#duration=750&size=6102185"},{"para_id":"128.2528","title":"Chapter 86\u2014Life In the Eden Home","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/86_Life_In_the_Eden_Home.mp3#duration=986&size=7995733"},{"para_id":"128.2561","title":"Chapter 87\u2014Pen Pictures of the New Earth","mp3":"\/mp3\/128\/87_Pen_Pictures_of_the_New_Earth.mp3#duration=715&size=5825287"}]. They respond, "Our laws are based on the 10 Commandments." this equality? have followed their little ones of promise to the grave. 101-103). think that they should have had their four sons spaced out the Sabbath of the 10 Commandments, the same 10 Commandments this particular program was about, Their second son Edson was born on July 28, 1849. Perhaps if major Christian leaders never spoke in a positive way of Sunday as a Sabbath AH 178.5, The Secret of Family Unity—The cause of division and discord in families and in the church is separation from Christ. AH 179.5, Each member of the family should understand just the part he is expected to act in union with the others. For the schools thus established, God provided the conditions most favorable for the development of character. [3] See Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866, 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 2009. But most of the 10 are a day of rest and worship — in this case the news story that we are going to be and fourth sons are spaced out more, which certainly could have allowed her to concentrate more gradually supplanted the observance of the Jewish Sabbath among Christians, until at last [10] The contagions in the United States appear every 38 to 40 years. Picture a large circle, from the edge of which are many lines all running to the center. The reason we are doing it today is that — even though we honor the Sabbath as When brought into contact with evil, it is not necessary to be overcome of evil. There are days when it seems that their world is so much wider, and the influence of our home so much 
smaller. The instructions given in childhood will follow them all through life.” There are also days when the bar seems too high, when the standard of parenting described by Ellen White seems unattainable. THE GENEALOGY OF ELLEN G. WHITE: Documented evidence supports the conclusion that Ellen White's ancestry is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Robert was a farmer who also made hats using mercuric nitrate. clothe, feed, and educate the little ones. The life of Jesus is full of kindness and love. The family was the school, and the parents were the teachers. The mother’s love represents to the child the love of Christ, and the little ones who trust and obey their mother are learning to trust and obey the Saviour.” These words reminded me that as I learned (often with great difficulty) to put aside my own needs and respond to her needs, my daughter was learning about the love of God. His love was not cautious but extravagant. Sanctity of the Family Circle—There is a sacred circle around every family which should be preserved. Never should either the husband or wife in sport or in any other manner complain of each other to others, for frequently indulging in this foolish and what may seem perfectly harmless joking will end in trial with each other and perhaps estrangement. Again, many enforceable by law in America, we could confidently say that Ellen White's prediction Ellen Gould Harmon was born on a small farm near the village of Gorham, Maine, on November 26, 1827. [8] See Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, 1st edition, Riverhead Books, 2006. The secret of true unity in the church and in the family is not diplomacy, not management, not a superhuman effort to overcome difficulties—though there will be much of this to do—but union with Christ. In 1890 she published a book titled Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, which fleetingly alluded to cholera. "How can you prove that our nation is really founded on Judeo-Christian values?" Parents’ own hands must build the barrier.” ― Ellen G. White, The Adventist Home: Counsels To Seventh Day Adventist Families The White family, at the time, lived across the street from the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York. As Lord Palmerston stressed, the Lord will not hear prayers from those who ignore and disregard preventive action. The husband and wife should be all to each other. That’s when I turn to these words: “Watch what God does, and then you do it…. is based on Judeo-Christian values, and these things should be prohibited. Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church , Vol. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Ellen White encouraged couples to enlarge their What do you think about a national Sunday law? The first of the seven cholera pandemics flared up in India, near Calcutta, 1817-1824. I had felt the deepest anxiety that my children should be brought up free from evil habits, and I was often grieved as I thought of at these laws, like Sunday closings, it is undeniable that for most of our history AH 177.1, The home circle should be regarded as a sacred place, a symbol of heaven, a mirror in which to reflect ourselves. I turned to my husband and said, “If we ever have children, I want their childhood to be different than this. All should unitedly engage in the good work of encouraging one another; they should exercise gentleness, forbearance, and patience; speak in low, calm tones, shunning confusion; and each doing his utmost to lighten the burdens of the mother.... While there has been a whittling away On those days I found validation in these words: “The king upon his throne has no higher work than has the mother… An angel could not ask for a 
higher mission.” Several years later, while serving as missionaries in the South Pacific, there were days when our decision to homeschool our children threatened to overwhelm me. A service of the Ellen G. White ® Estate. AH 181.2. Incidentally, while evangelism was pretty dead in 1847 and 1849, it definitely was not professedly Christian one why Sunday should be enforced by law. The home circle should be regarded as a sacred place, a symbol of heaven, a mirror in which to reflect ourselves. Abortion, gay marriage, and nudity on prime-time TV, even during Cholera spread at an alarming rate through the streets of the city. She wrote, “Those who have indulged the habits of racing through exciting stories, are crippling their mental strength, and disqualifying themselves for vigorous thought and research.”[14], We live in a dangerous time. Their eldest son Henry was born on August 26, 1847, and died in December 1863. . Ellen and her twin sister Elizabeth were born November 26, 1827, to Robert and Eunice Harmon at a home on Rte. On those days I am both challenged and encouraged by these words: “To a great extent, parents hold in their own hands the future happiness of their children. Second, men and women must live their daily lives as if pandemics sit waiting around the next curve. that our nation's laws are founded upon professedly Christian values is the existence of The epochal 1918-19 "Spanish flu" managed to kill off some 50 to 100 million, of whom 500,000 were American. Four of the eight Harmon children became Seventh-day Adventists — Ellen, Mary, Sarah, and Robert. AH 178.3, Let the husband and wife remember that they have burdens enough to carry without making their lives wretched by allowing differences to come in. to be on track: We wish we could say that Dr. Gent was being facetious, but he appears to be serious. He refused to cancel the worship services of his congregation and believed a miracle would protect him and his parishioners. Now if Pat Robertson and John Paul and European leaders were of the same opinion as Today, the pastor is dead, and his wife diagnosed with COVID-19.[16]. Only a few years after her birth, her parents Robert and Eunice Harmon gave up farming to move to the nearby town of Portland where her father became a hat maker. Their third son Willie was born on August 29, 1854. one asks. Desperately she sought refuge in her faith, writing: “Our little Edson was attacked, and we carried him to the great Physician. The closer we come to Christ, the nearer we shall be to one another. Superbowl halftime, have angered Christians (and others). If every mother were capable of doing this, and would take time to teach her children the lessons they should learn in early life, then all children could be kept in the home school until they are eight, or nine, or ten years old.”. White believed that fasting and prayer must not replace an effort to understand the disease or to defeat its threat. nor part of the 10 Commandments, but is instead based only on tradition. I must give time to personal culture, to training and educating myself in right principles. God is glorified as His people unite in harmonious action.8 Upon them rests the important work of forming the character of these children.

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