The book Ellen Whites world. Is base on the world that she live in. The author George R. Knight goal is " to portray as accurately as possible within the given space limitations the nature of the world that she lived in and the issues that were important to her time". While first coming upon this statement by George R. Knight. I figured that he would be calling Ellen White teaching in this day irrelevant, but I was wrong. George Knight first starts out with the state of the world before the American Civil war. The world at the times really seem lik