Ellen G. White in Europe 1885-1887

A School for Workers

“This is an important season for those assembled,” she wrote. “They may never be as favourably situated again to be instructed.”—Manuscript 65, 1886. By “instruction” she meant that the meetings were actually conducted like a school for workers. EGWE 193.3

A busy schedule of meetings was in progress, beginning with a social meeting at six-thirty each morning. At nine there was a bookkeeping class; at eleven-thirty instruction in “missionary labor.” a class in how to give Bible readings was conducted at 4:00 p.m., and finally the day closed with a preaching service at 8:00 p.m. All of this reflected the willing response of the Swedish workers to the appeals from Sister White and others at the Third European Council in Basel for a better-trained working force. EGWE 193.4

Her first sermon came on Sabbath afternoon. And after a testimony meeting had been held, she exclaimed, “We could but say, One Lord, one faith, one baptism. The brethren in Sweden have the very same experience as our brethren in America.”—Ibid. She repeated these sentiments more than once while in Europe, all of which reflected the good impressions made upon her mind. EGWE 194.1