Ellen G. White and Her Critics

3. Mrs. White’s Vision of February, 1845

Mrs. White’s critics quote from her vision in February, 1845. This vision describes Christ as going into the most holy place. Said Mrs. White: “Before the throne I saw the Advent people, the church, and the world. I saw a company, bowed down before the throne, deeply interested, while the most of them stood up disinterested and careless.” The passage quoted by the critics is this: “I did not see one ray of light pass from Jesus to the careless multitude after he arose.” (See broadside, To the Little Remnant Scattered Abroad, signed Ellen G. Harmon, Portland, April 6, 1846. ^*) EGWC 215.3

A few sentences earlier Mrs. White wrote: “Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from the Father to the Son, and from the Son it waved over the people before the throne. But few would receive this great light; many came out from under it and immediately resisted it; others were careless and did not cherish the light, and it moved off from them.” Is it not the orthodox Christian teaching that light comes to those who pray for it, and that the light of heaven is withdrawn from those who resist it? It is the path of the just that is as the shining light, and not the path of the careless, who reject the light of heaven. EGWC 216.1