Four boys were born into the White family. Henry Nichols (1847-1863) was
their firstborn. He died of pneumonia at the age of 16. James Edson (1849-1928)
became a Seventh-day Adventist minister and is most remembered for his
pioneering evangelistic and educational work among African Americans in the
Southern United States. William Clarence (1854-1937) also became a Seventh-day
Adventist minister. After James's death in 1881, William became his mother's
chief editorial assistant and publishing manager. John Herbert (1860) died at
the age of three months from erysipelas.
Thought for the Day
Our Redeemer thirsts for recognition. He hungers for the sympathy and love of those whom He has purchased with His own blood. He longs with inexpressible desire that they should come to Him and have life. As the mother watches for the smile of recognition from her little child, which tells of the dawning of intelligence, so does Christ watch for the expression of grateful love, which shows that spiritual life is begun in the soul. Desire of Ages, p. 191