Ellen White: The Greatest Author In History?

Summary: Ellen White wrote more than any other person in history with the possible exception of Shakespeare, but her writings were not fiction. Nine of her books could be considered classics. Steps to Christ probably exceeds Pilgrim’s Progress in sales and translation into 127 languages. These classics may be read online and a list of her most popular books is seen at http://www.whiteestate.org/books/books.asp 

On the 100^th anniversary of Ellen White’s death, this information is based mostly on testimony by non-Adventists. Not treated here is her leadership that helped the Seventh-day Adventist Church to grow from a handful of disappointed Millerites (Baptist, 1844) to 18 million members worldwide with schools and hospitals that are held in high esteem.

Her book, The Ministry of Healing, is perhaps the greatest single book ever written. It tells how to live healthy and happy from a biblical perspective that is non-denominational. It includes chapters on the life of Christ as the great medical missionary who came as “the unwearied servant of man’s necessity….the burden of disease, and wretchedness and sin He came to remove…to bring restoration.”

It’s chapter, The Physician an Educator explains that while drugs offer relief of symptoms, they rarely address the cause and, therefore, cannot cure disease. She lists the true remedies of nature as pure air, sunlight, rest, exercise, proper diet, use of water, trust in God, also abstaining from harmful substances that now is an increasing problem due to Monsanto’s push for gmo “foods” to not be labelled as such.

Dr. Clive McCay, Professor of Nutrition at Cornell University reviewed Ellen White’s writings on health and summarized a six-page review by wondering how she managed to avoid the many fads and fallacies in her day to write what he said was the best overall guide available on nutrition, and he noted that she was able to induce so many to adopt health principles that result in 7-8 years more life than average. She said tobacco was “a malignant poison” in 1864, 100 years before the US Surgeon General recognized it.

Dr. Florence Stratemeyer was Professor of Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College when she discovered Ellen White’s book, Education. Writing in the 1960′s, she said the book was more than 60 years ahead of its time with advanced educational concepts. If she were reviewing White now, she would probably say it was 120 years ahead. Education would be a great guide for all home-schoolers.

Considering what used to be HEW—Department of Health, Education and Welfare that morphed into separate departments, all doing poorly, we should realize that the best healthcare is self-care based on what we put into our mouths. The same is true for education, based on what we feed our minds. TV dinners are bad for the body and worse for the mind. Considering how sex education is done at school, parents should think about homeschooling their kids and the book Education would offer great insights.

In 1888, Ellen White saw her church reject a message of righteousness by faith so that her writings after that became non-denominational. She said the apostasy would continue till the Lord comes. Was she a prophet? She described tall buildings in New York City that were warranted to be fireproof that were “consumed as if made of pitch.” Testimonies for the Church, Vol 9, pgs 11-13 [9-11 published in 1909.

Readers wishing to sample or read her entire books (those above or others) online may do so at http://www.whiteestate.org/books/books.asp This author has not read The Acts of the Apostles listed among 10, but the others are all classics of higher quality than I could write with 25 years of education, and Ellen White only had three grades of schooling due to an injury in childhood.

If the reader might like to see Ellen White Exposed, I recommend starting at the 10:30 minute point on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKO46czMap4

Dr. Richard Ruhling was board-certified in internal medicine before teaching at Loma Linda University. He believes Ellen White foresaw http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com and did not want pharmacology taught at Loma Linda. Adventists could have helped alternative medicine to be far ahead today. Dr. Ruhling’s website offers Ellen White’ s book on health at http://ChooseABetterDestiny.com