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Did the Adventists' Ellen G. White ever meet or study with Joseph Smith?
No, Ellen White never met Joseph Smith, much less studied with him.
William Miller, a Baptist, thought that Christ's Second Coming was at the door, and he even gave a date for it, the year 1843. The movement started by Miller is called the Adventists. Joseph Smith commented on this in a conference in April 1840, saying that the Lord would not come in that year.
Ellen G. White was born in 1827 and spent her youth in Maine. She was a disciple of Miller, and after the depression following the year 1843, when Christ did not come, she received what she understood to be a revelation telling her to gather the Adventists and prepare the way for Christ's second coming.
So, yes, White studied at the feet of someone else before starting her own church, but it was William Miller, not Joseph Smith.
Rene A. Krywult
Kevin Barney
<< back to main menuWilliam Miller, a Baptist, thought that Christ's Second Coming was at the door, and he even gave a date for it, the year 1843. The movement started by Miller is called the Adventists. Joseph Smith commented on this in a conference in April 1840, saying that the Lord would not come in that year.
Ellen G. White was born in 1827 and spent her youth in Maine. She was a disciple of Miller, and after the depression following the year 1843, when Christ did not come, she received what she understood to be a revelation telling her to gather the Adventists and prepare the way for Christ's second coming.
So, yes, White studied at the feet of someone else before starting her own church, but it was William Miller, not Joseph Smith.
Rene A. Krywult
Kevin Barney
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