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2681 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.12 (Ellen G. White Estate)
11. This was followed by a committee of elders sorrowfully confessing the unfaithfulness of the church in ignoring God’s chosen messenger. They made a special point of repudiating James White’s “visions not a test” position.
2682 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.13 (Ellen G. White Estate)
12. Smith as one of his first acts as new editor reopened the Review pages to Ellen G. White.
2683 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.14 (Ellen G. White Estate)
13. Ellen White’s humiliation now over and with her prophetic role now secure, she declared that God would now smile on the church.
2684 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.15 (Ellen G. White Estate)
14. Quick to sense the shift, Ellen White now emerged as a dominant force among Sabbatarians, being in a position to threaten God’s displeasure to sustain her influence.
2685 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.16 (Ellen G. White Estate)
15. From this time forward, “Adventist leaders coveted her approval, and submitted in public at least, to the authority of her testimonies.”
2686 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.17 (Ellen G. White Estate)
16. Despite occasional inconsistencies and insensitivities, “most members clung to the belief that she represented a divine channel of communication.”
2687 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.18 (Ellen G. White Estate)
Now let us look at the documented facts. Only as the documents of the times are reviewed are the distortions uncovered. We shall review these points one by one.
2688 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.19 (Ellen G. White Estate)
1. The perplexity over the visions. “The visions trouble many,” (Letter to Brother and Sister Dodge, July 21, 1851). This is attributed in Prophetess of Health to three probable causes:
2689 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.20 (Ellen G. White Estate)
a. The changing stand on the shut door.
2690 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.21 (Ellen G. White Estate)
b. Resentment over publishing private testimonies “revealing secret sins and names.”
2691 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.22 (Ellen G. White Estate)
c. The visions were elevated above the Bible.
2692 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.23 (Ellen G. White Estate)
As to the shut door matter, the deletion of the phrase from Ellen White’s first vision, “all the wicked world which God had rejected” occurs first in the The Review …
2693 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.24 (Ellen G. White Estate)
As to the publishing of private testimonies with names and sins specified, this did not take place until some years later. None had been published up to this time.
2694 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.25 (Ellen G. White Estate)
As to elevating the visions above the Bible, this was a charge repeatedly made by Sundaykeeping Adventists, but there is no evidence of it among Sabbathkeepers …
2695 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 38.26 (Ellen G. White Estate)
A more feasible explanation of why many were troubled by the visions is that there was among the general public a resistance against such manifestation …
2696 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 44.12 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… page 38 that a major factor in leading Ellen White to begin speaking out on tea, coffee and tobacco in 1848 was probably the influence of Joseph Bates upon …
2697 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 56.9 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… . 37, 38, 47 and Prophetess of Health, page 68.] The Fowler chart had blanks for the names of the patient and his examiner, as did, presumably, most of the other charts …
2698 A Critique of the Book Prophetess of Health, p. 118.12 (Ellen G. White Estate)
In discussing the number of rooms in Paradise Valley Sanitarium and the fact that in a letter she had described the building as having 40 rooms when in reality it had only 38, she stated:
2700 Ellen G. White and Church Race Relations, p. 38.1 (Ronald D. Graybill)
For several years, it has been recognized by observant men both in the North and in the South, that a “reactionary movement” has been gradually developing and …