After The Agent In This Gift Should Die?

In the General Conference files is a letter from Mrs. White, dated January 30, 1905, to a former president of the General Conference, O. A. Olsen. She said:SPIAM 124.2

“The question is sometimes raised, ‘What if Mrs. White should die?’ I answer: ‘The books that she has written will not die. They are a living witness to what saith the Scripture.... Of myself I could not have brought out the truths in these books, but the Lord has given me the help of His Holy Spirit.”SPIAM 124.3

Again, two years later, and more at length, she spoke of this. In a tract, “The Writing and Sending Out of the Testimonies for the Church,” she wrote:SPIAM 124.4

“Whether or not my life is spared, my writings will constantly speak, and their work will go forward as long as time shall last. My writings are kept on file in the office, and even though I should not live, these words that have been given to me by the Lord will still have life and will speak to the people.”SPIAM 124.5