Elder
James
Springer
White,
founder
of
the
Seventh-day
Adventist
church,
was
born
in
Palmyra,
Maine,
August
4,
1821
and
died
August
6,
1881.
“With
his
fellow
Adventist
believers
White
suffered
keen
disappointment
in
October,
1844,”
but
he
never
gave
up
his
faith
in
God.
He
married
Ellen
Harmon
in
1846,
and
the
two
gave
their
lives
to
the
building
and
strength-
ening
of
the
church.
Elder
White
was
ever
“sensitive
to
the
guiding
counsels
of
God
found
in
His
Word
and
those
imparted
through
the
messages
given
to
his
wife.”
For
ten
years
he
was
president
of
the
General
Conference,
and
he
“lived
to
see
the
Adventist
denomination
.
.
.
firmly
established
upon
a
stable
basis..”’—from
SDA
Encyclopedia,
pp.
1423,
1424.
Elder
James
Springer
White,
founder
of
the
Seventh-day
Adventist
church,
was
born
in
Palmyra,
Maine,
August
4,
1821
and
died
August
6,
1881.
“With
his
fellow
Adventist
believers
White
suffered
keen
disappointment
in
October,
1844,”
but
he
never
gave
up
his
faith
in
God.
He
married
Ellen
Harmon
in
1846,
and
the
two
gave
their
lives
to
the
building
and
strength-
ening
of
the
church.
Elder
White
was
ever
“sensitive
to
the
guiding
counsels
of
God
found
in
His
Word
and
those
imparted
through
the
messages
given
to
his
wife.”
For
ten
years
he
was
president
of
the
General
Conference,
and
he
“lived
to
see
the
Adventist
denomination
.
.
.
firmly
established
upon
a
stable
basis..”’—from
SDA
Encyclopedia,
pp.
1423,
1424.