Ellen
G. White and
PICTURE-IDOLS
By Robert K. Sanders
GET
RID of THEM "IDOLS"
Ellen White was taken through the homes of people with photographs, room by room while in vision and called the photos she saw "idols". She claimed that these pictures were evil; and by having them the people are helping Satan. Ellen must have helped Satan a great deal as she had a many pictures of herself.
Do you have picture idols in your home?
See pictures of Ellen
G. White NOSE JOB Cover-up.
EGW Quotes
"During the night I was sorely distressed. A great burden rested upon me. I had been pleading with God to work in behalf of his people. My attention was called to the money which they had invested in photographs. I was taken from house to house, through the homes of our people, and as I went from room to room, my Instructor said, "Behold the idols which have accumulated!" Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, September 10, 1901, Paragraph 1. Article Title: No Other Gods Before Me.
Note: I wondered if EGW shut her eyes when she went wandering from room to room in the privacy of people's bedrooms and bathrooms. Just a thought!
"This making and
exchanging of photographs is a species of Idolatry.
Satan is doing all he can to eclipse heaven from our view.
Let us not help him by making picture-idols. We
need to reach a higher standard than these human faces suggest. The Lord
says, "Thou shall have no other Gods before me.""
Messages to Young People, page 316, paragraph 3, Chapter Title: Self
Gratification. A Species of Idolatry.
"After going from home to home, and
seeing the many photographs,
I was instructed to warn our people against this evil. This much we can do
for God. We can put
these picture-idols out of sight.
They have no power for good, but interpose between God and the soul."
Messages to Young People, page 318, paragraphs 2 and 3. Chapter
Title: Self Gratification
"Every true child of God will be sifted
as wheat, and in the sifting process every cherished pleasure which diverts the
mind from God must be sacrificed. In many families the mantel-shelves,
stands, and tables are filled with ornaments and pictures. Albums,
filled with photographs of the family and the photographs of their friends, are
placed where they will attract the attention of visitors. ....Is
this not a species of idolatry?"
Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, January 14, 1901, paragraph 1.
Article Title: No Other Gods Before Me.
"As I visit the homes of our people and
our schools, I see that all the available space on tables, what-nots, and
mantlepieces is filled up with photographs. On the right hand and on the
left are seen the pictures of human faces. God desires this order of
things to be changed. Were Christ on earth, He would say, "Take these things
hence." I have been instructed that these pictures are so many
idols, taking up the time and thought which
should sacredly devoted to God."
Messages to Young People, page 316, paragraph 1. Chapter
Title: Self Gratification.
"We have for years been waging war with spiritual idolatry. ..... I am pained to see the photographs multiplied and hanging everywhere." The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, page 887, paragraph 3. Chapter Title: Diary entries.
All along Mother Ellen was having pictures of her and family taken right and left. She loved Idols too! See below.
"I do not think I shall ever get a picture to equal the one Dunham has made for me. He says I had better have the large one put on a small card. What do you think of this plan?"--Letter 17, 1876, p. 2 (To James White, April 30, 1876)
"Dunham gave me one dozen of these pictures of yours. Shall I send them to you? What do you think of them? I told him I did not like them. They did not look natural, but you can use them. If so let me know." --Letter 21, 1876, p. 2 (To James White, May 5, 1876)
Now Mother Ellen gets caught with a lot of pictures and makes a public apology....
We acknowledge our error. We deeply
regret that we ever consented to sit for our pictures. For years I would
not consent to have our pictures taken, although solicited to do so. How
many times I have wished we had remained steadfast. But all we can do now
is to confess our wrong and ask God to forgive us, and entreat the forgiveness
of our brethren and sisters." Advent
Review and Sabbath Herald, March 26, 1867,
paragraph 2. Article Title: An Acknowledgment.
Comment: You should notice that she was caught and repented March
26, 1867, but from the above quotes she was still going strong at making Idols
in 1876.
Now for the real
good ones....
"In place of the true test of loyalty,
the Church members had manufactured tests of their own on dress and photographic
pictures. Interpreting the second
commandment to apply even to photographs. Some had burned pictures of
their friends"
"Thus a spirit of criticism, fault-finding,
and dissension had come in, which had been a great injury to the church.
And the impression was given to unbelievers that Sabbath-keeping Adventists were
a set of fanatics and extremists, and that their peculiar faith rendered them
unkind, uncourteous, and really unchristian in character."
Historical Sketches, p. 211 Ellen G. White in Europe 1885-1887, page119,
paragraph 2. Problems in the Christiania Church.
Notice that she blames the
members of the church for interpreting the 2nd commandment to apply to pictures
when she herself had taught it for years, even saying Christ would say,
"Take these things hence", and that an Angel had told her in vision
that these photographs were Idols. She was a hypocrite to the last.
Ellen G. White had been teaching the people this stuff, therefore SHE was the
cause of the "Fault Finding, Criticism and dissension in the Adventist
Church then and there and also TODAY! Don't you see the same thing going
on, especially among those who worship Ellen G. White.
"If you have your father's pictures, please bring them. I want to show them. My pocket album I left at Healdsburg."--Letter 15, 1882, p. 1. (To W. C. White, May 23, 1882)
The five hundred
dollar negative of James White.
"Lathrop is as pleased a man as you ever
saw with the pictures, especially of you. He says that she will sell you
the negative for
five hundred dollars.
Beside what we take, it
will bring him that much custom. He thinks Ingleson's a flat affair.
He [Lathrop] has your picture in the window for show."
Letter 1a,
1876, p.1. (To James White, March 24, 1876)
Imagine buying a negative for $500 for one negative! That equals 1000
days wages for the average man in those days!
In the White
collection of photographs there is a photo of James, its reference is Vol 11, No
67. The photographer was Dunaham and Lathrop. In the collection of photos is a
house built by James in 1857 at a cost of $750.
Surely there were not too many
people who could pay 2/3 the cost of a house for a photograph in 1876.
EGW declared pictures of
herself and other people were idols. Every time you see a picture of Ellen G.
White, you are looking at the Seventh-day Adventist Idol. All EGW believers
should immediately contact the SDA church to get the pictures of their Idol
removed from all books and church papers. This should include the pictures of
church leaders as well.
We
know that photos of our families and friends are not idols and nowhere in the
Bible does it tell us this. Ellen was wrong in interpreting the second
commandment. I do not know of any Christian that bow down and worships photos of
family members or friends.
Exo 20:4, 5 (NIV) "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of
anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You
shall not bow down to them or worship them;" It
is however possible for people to idolize and worship people, such as movie and
sports stars. But this is not what Ellen was talking about. She was talking
about her pictures and pictures in people's homes of family members.
Ellen G. White's
Nose Job
I am indebted to Mr. Keith Moxon, Editor
of "Sign Post" Brooklana Bo Bo Valley, Via Ulong N. S. W. 2450
Australia for the pictures and following article "YET ANOTHER COVER
UP." Mr. Moxon was the first to publish Pastor
Colcord's statement that he
had received from the Mote collection.
YET ANOTHER COVER-UP
The two portraits of Mrs. White on the left are taken from F. C. Gilbert's book, "Divine Predictions Fulfilled." The picture to the left is of first of Mrs. White as a young woman, and appears as the front piece to Gilbert's book. The picture in the middle is of the elderly Mrs. White when resident in Australia. …. both these pictures tell an untruth about Mrs. White's face. In all cases they show a Mrs. White whose nose has been retouched by an artist, giving her a normal appearance that she did not possess. Pastor W. A. Colcord, Secretary of the SDA General Conference around 1891, vigorously protested at the publishing of these pictures, and in letters to Pastor E. S. Ballenger …said that Mrs. White had a pug nose with the bridge broken down almost even with the face. In a further Feb. 29, 1928 letter to Ballenger, Colcord wrote: "I am glad to see you getting after W. C. White and sheeting some things home to him. No doubt he was the one who had his mother's picture doctored up to represent her having a beautiful long, straight nose -- the one used as front piece to Gilberts' book, 'Divine Predictions Fulfilled.' That book starts out with a misrepresentation regarding Mrs. White --a misrepresentation which covers up the deformity caused by an all but fatal blow in childhood which later brought on her epilepsy and fits mistaken for visions. And the Preface to that book credits W. C. White with having assisted greatly in its production. For many years he has figured in these misrepresentations and defenses of his mother."
The group picture to the right
shows Mrs. 'White in her 'reform dress,' said by her to have been seen in one of
her visions. This picture is an enlargement from a much larger group, and
un-retouched. There is no nose bridge between EGW's eyes, such as can be seen on
other faces. Pugness of the nose is obvious.
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The
touched up nose job of a young EGW. |
Touched
up nose job of a 72 year old EGW. Arthur White continued his father
Willie's deception by portraying his grandmother with a touched up nose
and normal bridge. See, The Early Elmshaven Years, vol. 5, inside
cover. |
Ellen with a pug nose and wearing her ugly Reform Dress that she required SDA women to wear as a test from God. When women refused to wear it, EGW stopped wearing her dress and then God conveniently removed Ellen's test dress from the SDA women.
Another picture of the
elderly |
