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Title: Ellen White


1
Ellen White
  • The Social Reformer
  • Denis Fortin
  • Writings of Ellen G. White

2
The Social Reformer
  • Perhaps one of the aspects of Ellen Whites
    writings that has been neglected the most is her
    thought on various social evils and issues of her
    day.
  • For her contemporaries, Ellen White was not only
    a spiritual woman, she was also a social reformer.

3
Thought on Social Reform
  • Social reform starts with the conversion of the
    individual and a deep-felt repentance.
  • Changed and converted people, dedicated to do the
    will of God, make a difference in society.

4
Slavery a brief history
  • 1619 First African Blacks arrive at Jamestown,
    Virginia, as Dutch slave trader exchange his
    human cargo for food.
  • Native Americans were also slaves.

5
Slavery a brief history
  • 1671 Black slaves represent less than 5 of
    population in Virginia
  • 1715 Black slaves comprise 24 of Virginia.
  • 1756 40 of Virginia population are slaves.
  • 1790 (first census) 757,000 blacks in U.S. or
    19 of the total population 9 of blacks
    (60,000) are free.  Total population is about 4
    million
  • 1830 More than 2 million slaves in U.S.

6
Abolitionism
  • American Anti-Slavery Society 1833  
  • While abolitionist societies worked for the
    emancipation of Blacks in Southern states and
    considered slavery a social sin, most societies
    did not allow Blacks to join.
  • William Lloyd Garrison was often criticized
    because he associated socially with Blacks.

7
Millerism and Abolitionism
  • Many Millerites were ardent supporters of
    abolitionism.
  • Joshua V. Himes
  • George Storrs
  • Charles Fitch
  • Joseph Bates

8
Fugitive Slave Act - 1850
  • The Fugitive Slave Act imposed heavy penalties on
    those who refused to help government slave
    catchers or who obstructed the recapture of a
    fugitive slave  (a fine of up to 1000 and
    imprisonment of up to six months).
  • Northerners were held directly responsible for
    helping recapture slaves who fled to the north.

9
Emancipation Proclamation
  • Signed by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862
  • "That on the first day of January, in the year of
    our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
    sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within
    any State, or designated part of a State, the
    people whereof shall then be in rebellion against
    the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
    and forever free. . . ."

10
Post-Civil War Gains
  • Three constitutional amendments between 1865 and
    1870 guaranteed the civil rights of the former
    slaves.

11
Thirteenth Amendment
  • 1865 Abolition of slavery
  • "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
    except as a punishment for crime whereof the
    party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
    within the United States, or any place subject to
    their jurisdiction.
  • Proposed by Congress Jan. 31, 1865 ratified Dec.
    6, 1865.

12
Fourteenth Amendment
  • 1868 Citizenship extended to Blacks.
  • "All persons born or naturalized in the United
    States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
    are citizens of the United States and of the
    State wherein they reside.
  • Ratified on July 21, 1868.

13
Fifteenth Amendment
  • 1870 Right to vote granted to Blacks.
  • "The right of citizens of the United States to
    vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
    United States or by any State on account of race,
    color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • Ratified on March 30, 1870.

14
Further Rights Granted
  • Two civil rights acts passed by Congress in 1866
    and 1875.
  • Establishment of the Freedman's Bureau in 1865 to
    help freed slaves. By 1900, Blacks in the
    Southern states had managed to send 15
    Representatives and 2 Senators to Congress.

15
Loss of Civil Rights
  • After 1877 and the end of Reconstruction period. 
  • 1883 Supreme Court nullified a section of the
    1875 Civil Rights Acts that prevented
    discrimination in public places and on public
    carriers.

16
Loss of Civil Rights
  • 1890s Disenfranchisement of Black voters in
    Southern states
  • Through a poll tax, literacy test, and
    "grandfather clause" (Jan. 1, 1860).
  • Louisiana
  • 130,344 Black registered voters in 1896
  • 1,342 in 1904
  • Alabama
  • 181,471 Black registered voters in 1896
  • 3,000 in 1900

17
Loss of Civil Rights
  • 1896 "separate but equal" doctrine adopted by
    Supreme Court
  • 1910 Racial segregation mandated in federal
    office buildings in Washington.

18
Ellen Whites Position
  • Ellen White stood firmly against slavery and saw
    it as a moral evil.
  • She believed in the equality of all races.
  • Spoke against slavery.
  • Spoke in favor of restitution.

19
Equality of All Races
  • The religion of the Bible recognizes no caste or
    color. It ignores rank, wealth, worldly honor.
    God estimates men as men. With Him, character
    decides their worth. And we are to recognize the
    Spirit of Christ in whomsoever it is revealed. No
    one need be ashamed to speak with an honest black
    man in any place or to shake him by the hand. He
    who is living in the atmosphere in which Christ
    lives will be taught of God and will learn to put
    His estimate on men (9T 223).

20
Civil Disobedience
  • I was shown that we have men placed over us for
    rulers, and laws to govern the people. Were it
    not for these laws, the world would be in a worse
    condition than it is now. Some of these laws are
    good, and some bad. The bad have been increasing,
    and we are yet to be brought into straight
    places. But God will sustain his people in being
    firm, and living up to the principles of his
    word. (contd)

21
Civil Disobedience
  • Where the laws of men conflict with God's word
    and law, we are to obey the word and law of God,
    whatever the consequences may be. The laws of our
    land requiring us to deliver a slave to his
    master i.e. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, we are
    not to obey, and we must abide the consequences
    of the violation of this law. This slave is not
    the property of any man. God is his rightful
    Master, and man has no right to take God's
    workmanship into his hands, and claim his as his
    own. (1T 201-202)

22
Slavery and the Civil War
  • God is punishing this nation for the high crime
    of slavery. He has the destiny of the nation in
    His hands. He will punish the South for the sin
    of slavery, and the North for so long suffering
    its overreaching and overbearing influence. (1T
    264)  

23
Healing of Racial Prejudice
  • Walls of separation have been built up between
    the whites and the blacks. These walls of
    prejudice will tumble down of themselves, as did
    the walls of Jericho, when Christians obey the
    Word of God, which enjoins on them supreme love
    to their Maker and impartial love to their
    neighbors. . . . Let every church whose members
    claim to believe the truth for this time, look at
    this neglected, downtrodden race, that as a
    result of slavery have been deprived of the
    privilege of thinking and acting for themselves.
    (Review and Herald, Dec. 17, 1895, also in
    Christian Service, 217-218).

24
Restitution Needed
  • The law of God contained in the Ten Commandments
    reveals to man his duty to love God supremely and
    his neighbor as himself. The American nation owes
    a debt of love to the colored race, and God has
    ordained that they should make restitution for
    the wrong they have done them in the past. Those
    who have taken no active part in enforcing
    slavery upon the colored people are not relieved
    from the responsibility of making special efforts
    to remove, as far as possible, the sure result of
    their enslavement. (The Southern Work, 54)

25
Working for Blacks
  • Most decided efforts should be made to educate
    and train colored men and women to labor as
    missionaries in the Southern States of America.
    Christian colored students should be preparing to
    give the truth to their own race. Those who make
    the fear of the Lord the beginning of their
    wisdom and give heed to the counsel of men of
    experience can be a great blessing to the Negro
    race by carrying to their own people the light of
    present truth (9T 199).

26
A. G. Daniells Tribute
  • Perhaps none other than A.G. Daniells, president
    of the General Conference of Seventh-day
    Adventists from 1901-1922, summarized better
    Ellen G. White's thoughts on social issues at her
    funeral in Battle Creek on July 24, 1915.  (Life
    Sketches, p. 473)

27
Ellen Whites Legacy
  • Through the light and counsel given her, Mrs.
    White held and advocated broad, progressive views
    regarding vital questions that affect the
    betterment and uplift of the human family, from
    the moral, intellectual, physical, and social
    standpoint as well as the spiritual. Her writings
    are full of instruction, clear and positive, in
    behalf of a broad, practical, Christian education
    for every young man and young woman. In response
    to her earnest counsels, the denomination with
    which she was associated now maintains a system
    of education for all its children and young
    people. (contd)

28
Ellen Whites Legacy
  • Her writings present most comprehensive views
    regarding temperance reform, the laws of life and
    health, and the use of rational, effective
    remedies for the treatment of disease. The
    adoption of these principles has placed the
    people with whom she worked, in the front ranks
    with others who are advocating sane temperance
    reforms and working for the physical improvement
    of mankind. (contd)

29
Ellen Whites Legacy
  • Nor is the social status of the human family
    lost sight of. Slavery, the caste system, unjust
    racial prejudices, the oppression of the poor,
    the neglect of the unfortunate, these all are
    set forth as unchristian and a serious menace to
    the well-being of the human race, and as evils
    which the church of Christ is appointed by her
    Lord to overthrow. (Life Sketches, 473)
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