Time-setting Rebukes

As the reader will recall, two or three remarkable predictions marked Mrs. White’s earliest days of public ministry. Let us briefly restate something found in one of the opening chapters. When all around her, Advent believers, disappointed on October 22, 1844, were looking for Christ’s appearing exactly one year later, she declared that they would be disappointed again, that Christ would not come. Why did she say that? How did she know? We leave her critics to answer this.WBEGW 93.4

As a result of a vision in 1848, she declared that her husband was to publish a paper and that the publishing work thus humbly begun would finally be like “streams of light” that would go “clear round the world.” She made that forecast calmly, unhesitatingly for all men to ponder in all the days ahead. The facts are that nothing has grown so remarkably as the publishing work so feebly begun. Today we have publishing houses scattered here and there over the whole earth, with three major houses in the United States alone that are publishing some eighteen million dollars’ worth annually, to say nothing of the dollar value of all that is published overseas. What is published is to be found now in about 228 languages.WBEGW 94.1