Ron Graybill
Ron Graybill, Ph.D., is professor of history at La Sierra University, La Sierra, California.
Articles by Ron Graybill
Our "Brother's Keeper"?
May 1975
PEOPLE are starving in the sub- Sahara region of Africa. In other parts of the world hurricanes and earthquakes are leaving thousands homeless and hungry, only to face the threat of epidemics.
Ten dollars given for the Disaster and…
Ellen G. White and Competitive Sports
July 1974
WE DON'T have any record of the wins and losses of the Battle Creek College Bruisers or what ever they called their football team. Neither do we know who won the boxing matches in the basement of the college building. But Ellen G. White's…
Ellen White and Literary Dependency
June 1980
Spangler: To get right to the point, Bob, give us a little background on this problem that seems to be surfacing today in which Ellen White is accused of literary dependency on other sources and in which her inspiration is…
Ellen White's role in doctrine formation
October 1981
For Seventh-day Adventists the one standard, rule, and ultimate authority for doctrine is the Bible. All other doctrinal authorities are subordinate. "God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the…
Health reform and Adventists in the nineteenth century
October 1988
Josepha Hale, a popular novelist and purveyor of domestic advice to antebellum housewives, offered the following recipe in her new cookbook: "Pork Cheese—Choose the head of a small pig. . . . Sprinkle over it, and the tongues…
Elder Hottel goes to General Conference
February 1988
Among the historical treasures housed in the General Conference archives is the diary of Elder R. De Witt Hottel, an Adventist minister who served in Virginia during the late 1880s. Hottel attended the 1888 General…
Enthusiasm in early Adventist worship
October 1991
One cold Saturday night in February 1845 found Ellen Harmon in a crowded farmhouse in northern Maine. As singing and shouting soared around her, she was struck down in vision. She lay unconscious on the floor while a young Millerite preacher,…
Visions and revisions, part II: editing the Testimonies
April 1994
Young man, we see no good in a third of these changes," the General Conference president said gravely.
W. C. White surveyed George Butler's face, then glanced at S. N. Haskell. Obviously, both men agreed.…
Visions and revisions-part 1
February 1994
Early in 1846 the venturesome Adventist editor of the Day-Star, a small Millerite paper in Cincinnati, Ohio, got a letter from an 18-year-old girl in Portland, Maine. In her letter, the young woman told Enoch…