Geneive Claude left a comment asking about Ellen White’s view on sports.

In his book Ellen White’s World, George Knight has a passage about sports in Ellen White’s day.

Starting on page 130, he writes that around the late 1800’s leisure became more of a reality for the common folk. Before that time, most people spent much of their time working. They did not have time for leisure activities.

However, with the inventions of time-saving machines, the common people had less working hours and more time for leisure activities. Two of these leisure activities were watching and participating in sports.

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Our director, Mrs. Mary Ann Hadley, gave this talk at the 2006 Annual Council on October 13, 2006 during morning worship.

Sherman Cox II points us to a transcript of a devotional talk by James R. Nix, the director of the Ellen G. White Estate. Nix spoke about a survey by the North American Division a couple years ago. One of the survey questions asked if the respondents regularly read Ellen White’s writings. 2,848 were classified as readers and 5,375 were non-readers. After crunching the data from the other survey questions, these findings were published in Ministry magazine in October 1982.

I just borrowed a couple of books from our library. One of them is Meeting Ellen White by George R. Knight.

As I was flipping through this book, I noticed a helpful resource at the end of the book. In the last chapter, Knight makes a good case for these seven major themes in Ellen White’s writings.

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