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Matthew Korpman deposited “Satan’s Flying Machines: Ellen White and Airplanes,” Adventist Today 31.1 (2023): 21-25. on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
The White Estate early on was aware of a report by some Adventists that claimed, as eyewitnesses, that Ellen White had (during a camp-meeting during May 1-10 of 1908) declared that: “Any one killed from an aeroplane would be lost.” Although considered apocryphal by the Estate when first heard, it turns out that this statement is likely not fictional or a distortion, but rather represents an accurate summary of Ellen White’s views (albeit, perhaps a paraphrase rather than an exact quote). With the digitization, increased access, and release of her unpublished writings, it is now very clear that White had written enough in her authentic writings to give witness that this remembered “apocryphal” quotation of hers accurately reflects her views from the time.