James White: Innovator and Overcomer

I have to say after reading this book I very much admire James White. I did not realize that other than her prophet work add preaching Ellen White did not work outside the home. James White provided the total living. He worked very hard because not only was he a full-time pastor but he had to work full-time something else to make a living for his wife and four sons and I’m sure he wanted to live as nicely as anyone else because for many years, James and Ellen White were poor. It was not until they moved up to Battle Creek that they started doing better economically. James White usually had a business like a Bible bookstore that sold Bibles and other books and maybe pencils tablets in that kind of thing and plus it was a full-time preacher and he was always working trying to make a living because women were not expected to work outside the home in those days And he started having strokes as he got older and they got worse and worse that he got worse and worse dementia, but he worked literally till he died. He was about 60 when he died, and the man was much overworked. I will say that, however the great thing that I admired about James White is even though he was overworked, he sat in place a system for the adventive ministers to get paid on a regular basis and they also got retirement and I greatly admire James for that James Was a excellent administrator. And I admire him for being Ellen White’s husband because it could not have been easy to be a minister and be the prophetess husband, and you are the one making the living not her. I did not realize till I read this book that James was supposed to make the living.