[In 1893 in meeting the charge that the church had become Babylon, Ellen G. White wrote: “the church, enfeebled and defective, needing to be reproved, warned, and counseled, is the only object upon earth upon which Christ bestows His supreme regard.”—Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 49. The repeating of this thought on a number of occasions in subsequent years is encouraging and significant.—Compilers.]