The White Lie

“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 author’s own quest for answers to compelling questions concerning this woman…. The White Lie reveals a portion of Walter Rea’s evidence that much of what several generations have been taught concerning Ellen White’s 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 Estate Staff. ” — From the Foreward “This book seeks to trace the birth, growth, and full bloom of the white lie in Adventism. It cannot explain all the strings that bind us, Gulliver-like, on our travel — because access is thus far denied to many sources of the facts. It can only point the reader to certain sources so that he can see for himself what is there to be seen.” –From the Prologue