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Called By God
work, Mrs. Henry was issued a min-isterial license by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination during the years 1898 and 1899.
Mrs. Henry frequently wrote for the Review and Herald. Titles of some of the books
and pamphlets she authored will indicate the diversity of her topics: The Abiding Spirit,
Good Form and Christian Etiquette, The Marble Cross and Other Poems, Studies in Home and
Child Life, and The Unanswered Prayer.
The death of this gifted, active minister in the year 1900 brought sorrow to countless
people whom she had served in various ways. Mourners filled the Battle Creek
Tabernacle for her funeral service.
Afterward her influence lived on as other women were appointed to continue the
work which she had established for mothers.(From a talk by Dr. E. D. Dick at Union
College reunion held at the General Conference, June 30,1985; “Sister S. M. I. Henry,”
Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (January 30, 1900): 64-69.)
Anna M. Johnson
Licensed minister 1881-1884

We have a limited amount of information concerning a licensed minister by the name
of Mrs. A. M. Johnson, through the Archives’ list of women ministers and this letter
from her granddaughter:
My grandmother was a licensed minister in the Minnesota Conference
in 1881. I am enclosing a copy of her license. She held evangelistic
meetings. My grandfather helped by leading the music and offering
prayer, but Grandma did the preaching. She was still preaching now
and then in her local church when I was a young woman, and I have
heard her preach.
Sincerely your sister in Christ,
Queda B. Bahnsen
— Queda B. Bahnsen, Gresham, Oregon,
letter to the author, August 1, 1984.
Ellen S. Edmonds (Mrs. E. B.) Lane
Licensed minister 1878-1889

While attending the State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ellen S. Edmonds
and E. B. Lane became acquainted and were afterward married. This Seventh-day
Adventist couple settled on a farm in Bedford Township, expecting to reside there for
life. However, in the Review and Herald they read repeated urgent appeals for committed
Adventists to enter the ministry to prepare people to meet their Lord. Praying earnestly
for guidance from God, the Lanes put their little farm up for sale; within a week, they
had a buyer. Still they would not decide until they had sought counsel from church leanders, particularly James and Ellen White. The Whites advised them to follow their

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