Ellen White’s Trinitarian Statements: What Did She Actually Write?
Addendum (added May 2012)
Further evidence that Ellen White believed that the Godhead consists of three beings may be found in a Sabbath sermon she delivered on October 20, 1906. The full sermon is reproduced in Sermons and Talks, vol. 1, pp. 360-383. The key statement is found on p. 367: “You are born unto God, and you stand under the sanction and the power of the three holiest Beings in heaven, who are able to keep you from falling.” Some have questioned the authenticity of the statement because it was not published in Ellen White’s lifetime. How do we know that we can trust the reading in Sermons and Talks? The source of the sermon is Ellen White’s Manuscript 95, 1906, which was a part of Ellen White’s file ever since the sermon was transcribed in 1906 as evidenced by other portions of the sermon which Ellen White published in the December 13, 1906, Review and Herald. EGWTS 24.1
Exhibit 17 is a photograph of Ellen White’s 1906 letter book which contains Ms 95, 1906, on pages 19-42. Exhibit 18 is scan of the manuscript’s first page, identifying the document, and Exhibit 19 is a scan of the page containing the “three holiest beings” statement (in the second paragraph). EGWTS 24.2
Exhibit 17. Photograph of Ellen White’s 1906 letter book which contains Ms 95, 1906, on pages 19-42. EGWTS 25.1
Exhibit 18. Scan of the manuscript’s first page, identifying the document. EGWTS 26.1
