Ellen G. White’s Attitude Toward Her Work

20. Sister White’s Judgment

A judgment under God’s training: “He and you have evidenced your opinion of your own judgment—that it was more reliable than Sister White’s. Did you consider that Sister White has been dealing with just such cases during her life of service for the Master, that cases similar to your own and many varieties of cases have passed before her that should make her know what is right and what is wrong in these things? Is a judgment that has been under the training of God for more than fifty years of no preference to those who have not had this discipline and education? Please consider these things.”—Letter 115, 1895. EGWATHW 9.7

Care in expressing her judgment: “I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger that any words I may speak shall be reported as something that the Lord has given me. It is not always safe for me to express my own judgment; for sometimes when some one wishes to carry out his own purpose, he will regard any favorable word I may speak, as special light from the Lord. I shall be cautious in all my movements.”—Letter 162, 1907. EGWATHW 10.1