Ellen White's Vision of a Dark World

In 1845, Ellen Gould Harmon met an Adventist minister named James Springer White. She and her husband began keeping Saturday the Seventh-day of the week as the Sabbath. The couple had four sons, though two of them did not survive too adulthood due to illnesses. Their other two sons grew up to become Adventist ministers like their father. In 1848 they adopted a young woman named Rachel Oakes Preston who believed that Jesus' second coming or Advent was imminent. They started a paper called The Present Truth which published 11 issues between 1849 and 1850 but merged with another Adventist paper in 1860.