- About This Collection of Ellen G. White Documents
- Table of Contents
- Identification of persons addressed in this collection
- Index to Document Location
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- Chapter 4—Engaging in Worldly Speculation
- Chapter 5—To Mary White
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- Chapter 7—Sabbath Afternoon Talk
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- Chapter 19—Distressing Experiences of 1888
- Chapter 20—To Mary White
- Chapter 21—To W. M. Healey
- Chapter 22—To G. I. Butler and wife
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- Chapter 24—Looking Back at Minneapolis
- Chapter 25—To R. A. Underwood
- Chapter 26—To R. A. Underwood
- Chapter 27—To R. A. Underwood
- Chapter 28—The Discernment of Truth
- Chapter 29—To R. A. Underwood
- Chapter 30—Meetings at South Lancaster, Mass.
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- Chapter 32—To J. H. Morrison
- Chapter 33—To My Dear Brethren
- Chapter 34—To W. C. White
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- Chapter 36—To J. Fargo
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- Chapter 39—Unfounded Reports
- Chapter 40—To H. Miller
- Chapter 41—To U. Smith (unfinished)
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- Chapter 44—To Mary White
- Chapter 45—Camp-Meeting at Ottawa, Kansas
- Chapter 46—To Elders M. and H. Miller
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- Chapter 48—To U. Smith
- Chapter 49—To the General Conference
- Chapter 50—The Excellence of Christ
- Chapter 51—To Mary White
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- Chapter 53—To Mary White
- Chapter 54—Issues at the Gen. Conf. of 1889
- Chapter 55—To Brethren and Sisters
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- Chapter 57—Standing by the Landmarks
- Chapter 58—To Bro. Stone
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- Chapter 60—To Brn. Ballenger and L. Smith
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- Chapter 69—To M. Larson
- Chapter 70—To W. C. White
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- Chapter 72—To U. Smith
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- Chapter 74—To W. C. White and wife
- Chapter 75—To W. A. Colcord (incomplete)
- Chapter 76—To W. C. White and wife
- Chapter 77—To W. C. White and wife
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- Chapter 79—To W. C. and wife
- Chapter 80—To O. A. Olsen
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- Chapter 82—Jesus, Our Redeemer and Ruler
- Chapter 83—Living Channels of Light
- Chapter 84—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 85—To W. C. White
- Chapter 86—To W. C. White
- Chapter 87—The Righteousness of Christ
- Chapter 88—To Bro. and Sr. Garmire
- Chapter 89—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 90—To Brethren in the Ministry (incomplete)
- Chapter 91—To J. S. Washburn
- Chapter 92—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 93—To Brethren in Responsible Positions
- Chapter 94—To U. Smith
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- Chapter 97—To O. A. Olsen (cf. Lt 43, 1890)
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- Chapter 99—“Be Zealous and Repent.”
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- Chapter 102—To U. Smith
- Chapter 103—Circulation of Great Controversy
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- Chapter 105—Light in God's Word
- Chapter 106—Peril of Trusting in the Wisdom of Men
- Chapter 107—To U. Smith
- Chapter 108—To J. S. Washburn and wife
- Chapter 109—Missionary Work
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- Chapter 112—Diary Entry—Christ Our Righteousness
- Chapter 113—Our Present Dangers
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- Chapter 115—The Vision at Salamanca
- Chapter 116—Danger in Adopting Worldly Policy in the Work of God.
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- Chapter 118—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 119—To J. H. Kellogg
- Chapter 120—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 121—Search the Scriptures.
- Chapter 122—To S. N. Haskell
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- Chapter 125—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 126—To A. T. Jones
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- Chapter 129—The Opposer's Work.
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- Chapter 133—To J. H. Morrison
- Chapter 134—Love, the Need of the Church
- Chapter 135—To Captain C. Eldridge
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- Chapter 137—To I. D. Van Horn
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- Chapter 139—To A. T. Jones
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- Chapter 141—To H. Lindsay
- Chapter 142—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 143—To F. E. Belden and wife
- Chapter 144—To L. Nicola
- Chapter 145—Diary Entry
- Chapter 146—To I. D. Van Horn
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- Chapter 150—Christ the Center of the Message
- Chapter 151—To C. Eldridge and wife
- Chapter 152—To C. H. Jones
- Chapter 153—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 154—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 155—Untitled
- Chapter 156—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 157—To Brethren Who Shall Assemble in General Conference
- Chapter 158—To A. R. Henry
- Chapter 159—To O. A. Olsen
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- Chapter 161—To H. Lindsay
- Chapter 162—The Danger of Self-Sufficiency in God's Work
- Chapter 163—To A. O. Tait
- Chapter 164—To F. E. Belden
- Chapter 165—To F. E. Belden
- Chapter 166—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 167—To C. H. Jones
- Chapter 168—To J. H. Kellogg
- Chapter 169—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 170—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 171—To J. E. White
- Chapter 172—To F. E. Belden
- Chapter 173—To Brethren Who Occupy Responsible Positions in the Work
- Chapter 174—To J. H. Kellogg
- Chapter 175—To My Brethren in America
- Chapter 176—To H. Lindsay
- Chapter 177—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 178—To Sr. Lindsay
- Chapter 179—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 180—To S. N. Haskell
- Chapter 181—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 182—To U. Smith
- Chapter 183—To the Men Who Occupy Responsible Positions in the Work
- Chapter 184—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 185—TO A. O. Tait
- Chapter 186—To. W. W. Prescott and wife
- Chapter 187—To O. A. Olsen
- Chapter 188—To Those in Responsible Positions in Battle Creek
- Chapter 189—Untitled
- Chapter 190—Ministerial Institutes
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- Chapter 192—The Bible in our Schools.
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- Chapter 194—To A. R. Henry
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- Chapter 196—To Men in Responsible Positions in the Work
- Chapter 197—Untitled
- Chapter 198—To W. S. Hyatt
- Chapter 199—To S. N. Haskell and wife
- Chapter 200—To Officers of the Gen. Conf
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- Chapter 203—Remarks at Gen. Conf.
- Chapter 204—Remarks at Gen. Conf.
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- Chapter 206—To A. T. Jones
- Chapter 207—To W. M. Healey
- Chapter 208—To Brn-Srs. of the Iowa Conference (cf. Lt 134, 1902)
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- Chapter 211—To C. P. Bollman
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- Chapter 213—To J. E. White and wife
- Chapter 214—To G. I. Butler
- Chapter 215—The Review and Herald Office
- Chapter 216—To J. E. White
Chapter 88—To Bro. and Sr. Garmire
Bro. and Sr. Garmire, (for thus I shall call you),—
Since visiting your house Sabbath afternoon, Aug. 23, some things have rested on my mind to say to you. I have no hesitancy in saying that Anna's visions are not of God. The dreams that the members of your family have had are a deception of Satan. Will the Lord give light through an impure, corrupt channel? — No. This wonderful interpretation of Scripture which you have accepted, came from a man who was wholly deceived. Such ideas as he advanced, such interpretation of the third angel's message and other Bible truths, such corrupting, sensual things, could only come from a mind defiled. My pen refuses to trace his blasphemous pretensions. Here is where you received your light. Anna's visions have no higher source than the ideas you accepted from the blind man Jones. Can an impure fountain send forth pure water?—Never. The imagination of the man was wholly defiled, and yet he presented his error as solemn, sacred truth. Think you the Lord would pass by his people, who are striving to do his work, and impart light to one corrupt in heart, whose theories would lead to moral pollution and defilement of soul and body?—No, indeed no.1888 697.1
Satan saw that he could work upon your fruitful imagination, and lead you, with others, into his net. Did God give you that time message?—No; for no such message comes from the true Source of light. You present your calculations and figures, as many First-day Adventists have done; but your reckoning is founded on false premises. In the little leaflet you sent out you speak of “thy judgment” coming in one hour, and that God will work “his strange work”, and “cut it short in righteousness,” and seal to himself a remnant in fifteen days. On page 8 you present Anna's vision in regard to a certain woman as a confirmation of your theory that probation would end in October, 1884. There is nothing to this. Probation is not yet closed; the saints are not yet sealed. In the next paragraph you give Anna's dream in regard to her father. Neither has this any weight, nor the dream your wife has had. They are all false.1888 697.2
I quote from your tract: “The Lord plainly tells you the literal days he will be pleading with you, in Hosea 5:7,—for fifteen days on the testimony, and fifteen more days on the laws, in the loud cry. I shall not be able to get this tract before any of you more than thirty days before the time is accomplished.” You say,” Hundreds will be in the Tabernacle; and as they have rejected the Lord, he will reject them, and send them strong delusions, that they may believe a lie.” Who was it that was deluded? Who was it that believed a lie? Then you make quotations from Sr. White to substantiate your false theories. Forty thousands of these leaflets were sent out. One of your party prevailed upon a young man who was naturally conscientious, to steal the mailing list of the Review and Herald, from which to obtain names to whom to send your falsehoods. Such work, in no sense bears the divine mark. This was a State's prison crime. Time has proved you to be a false prophet, and Anna's visions false exercises. God never works in this way.1888 698.1
Satan has other and stronger delusions prepared for you. You will claim, if you have not already done so, that you have a work to do in connection with Anna's visions, corresponding to that of the mighty angel that came down from heaven, whose glory lightened the earth. Satan sees that your mind is all ready to be impressed with his suggestions, and he will use you to your own ruin, unless in the name of the Lord you break the shackles that bind you.1888 699.1
The parable of the call to supper has no bearing on your theories. It is a lesson given by Christ to reach to the close of probation. You dwell on this parable, and call in the Scripture, when you have wholly perverted and misapplied its meaning.1888 699.2
You and your wife and Sr. Eastman have said, “Show us from the Bible that we are in error, and we will give it up.” But how can I prove your error by Scripture, when you misinterpret and misapply it as you do?1888 699.3
It was this same spirit in the Jews which called forth the words of Christ, “Ye are both ignorant of the Scriptures and of the power of God.” They entertained the idea that Christ at his first advent was to break the Roman yoke from off their necks, and that he would then honor Israel by placing them above every other people on the earth. And they produced Scripture to sustain them; but they were deceived; the Old Testament prophecies which relate to the glorious second appearing of Christ, they applied to his first advent, and many, even the wise and educated, were deceived. Their error was fatal.1888 699.4
Several times, during our conversation, in which you became very much in earnest, you repeated the sentence, “O consistency, thou art a jewel.” I repeat the same with decided force to you. You say that Anna's visions place the forming of the image of the beast after probation closes. This is not so. You claim to believe the testimonies; let them set you right on this point. The Lord has shown me clearly that the image of the beast will be formed before probation closes; for it is to be the great test for the people of God, by which their eternal destiny will be decided. Your position is such a jumble of inconsistencies that but few will be deceived.1888 700.1
In Revelation 13 this subject is plainly presented: “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Then the miracle-working power is revealed: “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”1888 700.2
This is the test that the people of God must have before they are sealed. All who prove their loyalty to God by observing his law, and refusing to accept a spurious Sabbath, will rank under the banner of the Lord God Jehovah, and will receive the seal of the living God. Those who yield the truth of heavenly origin, and accept the Sunday Sabbath, will receive the mark of the beast. What need will there be of the solemn warning not to receive the mark of the beast, when all the saints of God are sealed and ticketed for the New Jerusalem? “O consistency, thou art a jewel!”1888 701.1
You have taken the history of the disobedient prophet, as given in the Old Testament, and applied it to Sr. White. You say she is perfectly honest, but the deceived prophet. For this reason the testimonies of the Spirit of God can have no effect on you. Has the Lord opened to you or your daughter, your wife or your children, the disobedience of Sr. White? If she has walked contrary to God, will you show in what? My duty is to make plain statements of my position; for you misinterpret my testimony, wrench it from its true meaning, and bring in my name whenever you think it will enforce whatever you have to say. But when the testimonies do not harmonize with your theories, I am excused, because I am the false prophet! There are many ways of evading the truth.1888 701.2
You seem to have special bitterness against Eld. Smith, and some others of our brethren, and you have talked out these feelings in your family, thus leavening them. The Lord has seen fit to counsel Eld. Smith, to give him words of reproof because he had erred; but is this an evidence that God has forsaken him?—No. “As many as I love I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.” The Lord reproves wrongs in his people, but is this an evidence that he has rejected them?—No. There are errors in the church, and the Lord points them out by his own ordained agencies, not always through the testimonies. Now shall we seize these reproofs and make capital of them, and say that God is not imparting to them his light and love?—No. The very work that God is trying to do for them shows that he loves them, and wants to draw them away from paths of danger.1888 701.3
God has spoken in reference to yourself. That which you term light from heaven, he has pronounced darkness, and the visions born of this error, he calls a delusion. Will you believe this testimony? Will you heed what the Lord has spoken through Sr. White, or will you cast the word of the Lord behind you? Will you quote this testimony as readily, and make capital of it, as you have of testimonies of reproof given your brethren who have erred in some things? “O consistency, thou art a jewel!”1888 702.1