The Visions of Mrs. E.G. White

OBJECTION 23. — TREE OF LIFE

“Her view of the tree of life is much more fanciful that true.” Indeed! Our fancy is to judge is it of the truthfulness of these things! Why does not the objector say the same thing of Ezekiel’s vision of the living creatures, and living wheels; Zechariah’s vision of the stone with seven eyes, and the flying roll; John’s view of the four beasts, a city of gold transparent like glass! etc., etc. He asks if the idea of a gold tree is altogether reasonable. Why don’t he ask if it is altogether reasonable to talk about gold’s being transparent like glass, as John does? Who ever saw any transparent gold? In regard to there being but one tree, with a trunk on each side of the river, we have a most striking illustration of how this can be, in the banyan tree of India, the branches of which take root and become new trunks sending out other branches, till the tree comes to be supported by hundreds of trunks, covering, perhaps, acres of ground, yet all the trunks being connected together in the wide-spreading top, and forming but one tree. See Webster’s Dictionary, and Am. Encyclopedia. VEGW 79.2