Ellen G. White: The Later Elmshaven Years: 1905-1915 (vol. 6)

Involvements in Answering Questions

A glimpse of the involvements in answering these questions is found in a W. C. White letter written on July 13, 1906, to Elders Daniells, Prescott, and Irwin: 6BIO 95.5

This is Friday afternoon. We have had a busy week in copying out and sending away letters Mother has been writing. Today Dores [Robinson] has copied one of eleven or twelve pages to Elder A. T. Jones in which Mother refers to past experiences, and makes some interesting quotations from letters sent to him in former years. For several days Brother Crisler has been hunting up what has been written in past years regarding contracts and agreements [between the Battle Creek Sanitarium and students and employees]. I think he will be able to submit to Mother his collection of manuscripts early next week.— Ibid., 767. 6BIO 95.6

Commenting on the questions she was receiving and answering, Ellen White wrote: 6BIO 95.7

During the past few weeks I have not had much rest in spirit. Letters, full of questions, are continually crowding in upon us.... I have been sent some of the most frivolous questions in regard to the testimonies given me by the Lord.—Letter 180, 1906. 6BIO 95.8

But she did not dismiss all the questions as frivolous. Many she answered, writing kind, tolerant letters that dealt in a straightforward way with the problems presented. 6BIO 96.1