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
As His representatives among men, Christ does not choose angels who have never fallen, but human beings, men of like passions with those they seek to save. Christ took upon Himself humanity, that He might reach humanity. Divinity needed humanity; for it required both the divine and the human to bring salvation to the world. Divinity needed humanity, that humanity might afford a channel of communication between God and man. So with the servants and messengers of Christ. Man needs a power outside of and beyond himself, to restore him to the likeness of God, and enable him to do the work of God; but this does not make the human agency unessential. Humanity lays hold upon divine power, Christ dwells in the heart by faith; and through co-operation with the divine, the power of man becomes efficient for good. Desire of Ages, p. 296