Manuscripts and Memories of Minneapolis

F. H. Westphal to W. C. White, Jun. 29, 1932

San Diego, Cal.
4678 Biona Street
June 29, 1932
W. C. White
St. Helena, Cal.
Dear Brother:

I received a letter from my son Dr. C. E. Westphal from Puiggari. F. C. E. R., Argentina, S. America from the River Plate Sanitarium. In this letter he invites me to send you one dollar for a group of manuscripts you sent to him. Enclosed you will find the one dollar check so please credit him and he will keep the manuscripts. MMM 346.1

While I am writing you I want to call attention to a few things or thoughts I mentioned to Brother Froom the secretary of the Ministerial Association in a letter to him. He said he wrote to you about it and you repudiated and challenged them and said that it would be difficult to prove them true. I have no ax to grind or any special project to bolster up. MMM 346.2

I will relate what I remember of the 1888 General Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. It rings in my ears still how Sister White earnestly appealed to the conference to accept the message of justification by faith. She used some very strong terms such as the following: Don’t think that wisdom is going to die with you! The Lord has men all prepared to step right in and carry the message to success. God is not dependent upon you to finish his work in the earth. She said that she had almost lost confidence in humanity and the Lord seemed to be on the point of taking the blessing of carrying the message to the world out of the hands of our people and raising up others to do the work. MMM 346.3

Now I do not know if she had reference only to the leaders or the entire people. She said that she earnestly prayed to the Lord and the Lord assured her that he would not let this work go down in infidelity but that he would guard it and the organization would stand until the end and that those who would stay by the organization would be on safe ground. MMM 346.4

She said that she was carried in vision from room to room where the delegates were located in Minneapolis and heard their conversation and ridicule of the message of justification by faith. They said that Sister White was growing old and getting childish and that the young men Jones and Wagoner had her under their thumb and had influenced her to uphold them in what they were teaching. MMM 346.5

Do you remember anything about this matter and is there anything written that bears on the subject at all? MMM 346.6

Sincerely your Brother in Christ.
F. H. Westphal