the items chosen. An attempt has been made to include all essential
statements on the subjects presented, penned through the years of Ellen
White’s active service, thus taking advantage of approaching a given
point from all angles and presenting the widest possible coverage. In
so doing there is here and there repetition of thought in general basic
lines that the casual reader may find somewhat irritating. The careful
student, however, will welcome each phrase that makes a contribution
to the subject under discussion. Thus Mind, Character, and Personality
is somewhat encyclopedic.
Each quotation carries a specific credit to its source in the Ellen G.
White materials, making it possible for the reader in many cases to turn
to the full original context if desired.In the interest of conserving space,
the commonly accepted abbreviations to the E. G. White writings
are employed in the source references. A key to these abbreviations
follows in the introductory pages. In all cases the date of writing
or of first publication is supplied. The original sources are given
as primary references, and if currently available in book form, the
appropriate current published references appear. Credits to the Seventh-
day Adventist Bible Commentary are to the E. G. White supplementary
statements appearing at the close of each of the Commentary Volumes,
or in Volume 7a of the SDA Bible Commentary.
Limitation of space has precluded the inclusion in these volumes
of some mind-related topics as “insanity”, etc., for which the reader is
referred to the Comprehensive Index to the Writings of Ellen G. White.
This compilation has been prepared in the offices of the Ellen G.
White Estate under the direction of the Board of Trustees as authorized
by Ellen White in her will. Unlike most compilations of Ellen G.
White materials it was first released in temporary form under the title
of Guidelines to Mental Health, for classroom testing and for critical
reading by Adventist educators, psychologists, and psychiatrists. It
was the desire of the White Estate to make certain that all known
statements relevant to the topics represented were taken into account
and that the arrangement of materials was acceptable.
The favorable response from the classroom use and of others en-
sures the place of this work with the many other Ellen G. White books
of posthumous publication. As now issued in two parts, it becomes a
segment of the popular Christian Home Library.