The White Lie

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Ground-breaking book that has shaken the foundations of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Ellen Gould White in the mid 1800s began a career that led to her becoming the acknowledged "personage" of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A century and a quarter afterward in the mid-1970s one of her longtime devotees began to disclose evidence from his research that raised sobering questions as to the official church position on Ellen White.... This book grew out of the authors own quest for answers to compelling questions concerning this woman.... The White Lie reveals a portion of Walter Reas evidence that much of what several generations have been taught concerning Ellen Whites writings simply is not true -- or at the minimum it is enormously overstated. The books of numerous writers of her time and earlier are known to have been accessible to her. The large number of them that were in personal collection at her death in 1915 were inventoried and have been available to the White Es