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    Ellen White’s experience

    Ellen White, like other Millerite Adventists, took her initial cue on the shut door from William Miller. She did not originate the view. After the autumn 1844 disappointment, and previous to her first vision, she, like Miller, believed that probation had closed for the world. She recollected: “For a time after the disappointment in 1844, I did hold, in common with the advent body, that the door of mercy was then forever closed to the world. This position was taken before my first vision was given me” 6Ellen G. White [EGW], Manuscript 4 (c. 1883); EGW, Selected Messages (Washington, DC: Review and Herald®, 1958), 1:63. Related to this statement is another: “With my Brethren and Sisters after the time passed in 1844 I did believe no more sinners could be converted. But I never had a vision that no more sinners could be converted.” 7EGW to J. N. Loughborough, August 24, 1874, Letter 2, 1874; EGW, Selected Messages, 1:74.UEGW 167.3

    At some point after the Disappointment, but before her first vision in December, she adopted the Millerite majority position that the October 1844 date was wrong. Ellen White recounted in 1847: “At the time I had the vision of the midnight cry I had given it up in the past and thought it future, as also most of the band had” 8EGW to Joseph Bates, July 13, 1847, Letter 3, 1847; see also James White, A Word to the “Little Flock” (Brunswick, ME: n.p., May 30, 1847), 22. It was her first vision in December 1844 that caused Ellen White to renew her faith in God’s leading of the October 1844 movement.UEGW 167.4

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