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Review and Herald Publishing Association, Published 1986. Hardcover, 512 pp.; 23 cm; black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Ellen G. White (1864); 12-page section of black-and-white illustrations; map endpapers ("The United States in 1860").
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Mottled brown leatherette boards with blind-stamped rules, corner ornaments and oval on front; spine lettered in gilt with Ellen G. White facsimile signature, title, dates, author and publisher's device, gilt bright. Light rubbing to boards; two thin scratches and a few small nicks to rear board; corners lightly bumped. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Volume 2 of the six-volume biography of Ellen G. White (1827-1915), co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, written by her grandson Arthur L. White, secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate for 41 years. Each chapter covers a single year from 1863 through 1876: the health reform vision of June 6, 1863, and the organization of the General Conference that May; Adventists and the Civil War draft; the six Health, or How to Live pamphlets and the Battle Creek Health Institute; the first camp meetings; Battle Creek College; and the Whites' move to California, where James White started the Signs of the Times and a publishing house in Oakland. Drawn from letters, manuscripts and the Review and Herald, with an appendix reprinting the 1865 recipe for graham "gems." Contents: Foreword; A Year to Be Remembered; The Continuing Struggle to Establish Church Order; Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil War in the United States; Meeting Two Major Problems; The White Family Escapes to the East; Learning to Practice Health Reform; An Intensive Course in Methods of Reform; The War and Its Unexpected Close; Health, How to Keep It, How to Lose It; The Agonizing Year of Captivity; Rebellion in Iowa; Liberated at Last, The Sweet and the Bitter; Advancement in Health Reform; Battle Creek and the Health Institute; Dreams, Testimony No. 13, and the Tour East; Bearing Testimony by Voice and Pen; The First Annual Camp Meetings; A Year to Regroup and Prepare; At Last the Tide Turns; Further Steps Toward Health Reform; Restructuring for a Sound Future, 1; Restructuring for a Sound Future, 2; A Surprise Vacation in the Rocky Mountains; James and Ellen White Discover California; The Call for a School; Colorado Interlude; Progressive Steps in Evangelism in the Far West; Publishing and Preaching in Oakland; The Prophet-Apostle Relationship; James White Again in the Saddle; Leading in Significant Advances; Finishing a Successful Year; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography; Index