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7741 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 14.8 (Arthur Lacey White)

I hereby testify in the fear of God that the charges of Miles Grant, of Mrs. Burdick, and others published in the Crisis are not true. The statements in reference to my course in forty-four are false.

7742 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 15 (Arthur Lacey White)

Ellen Harmon’s First Vision—December, 1844 Note: See Exhibit 1 for the full text of the vision as published in the “Word to the Little Flock” printing with Scripture reference supplied by James White

7743 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 16.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

Ellen White refers to this experience in her letter to Joseph Bates written July 13, 1847.

7745 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 17 (Arthur Lacey White)

The Earliest Published References to the Vision

7746 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 17.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

… published reference we have to the vision is in a letter James White wrote on August 19, 1845, to the editor of the Day Star four months before she wrote it out …

7747 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 18.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

… Scripture references added, on May 30, 1847. See Exhibit I, for the full text of the vision as there published. In 1851, the most of it was included in Ellen White’s …

7748 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 23.4 (Arthur Lacey White)

… . In referring to those who rashly denied the light behind them and said that it was not God that had led them out so far, she declares that they fell off the path …

7749 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 23.6 (Arthur Lacey White)

… does refer to “all the wicked world which God had rejected.” And it must be noted that the next full sentence refers to “the living saints, 144,000 in number.”

7750 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 24.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… she refers in her letter to Elder Bates. In this she was directed to events transpiring in heaven. She was shown the entry of Christ into the Most Holy Place …

7751 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 26.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

… just referred to. The account of what took place comes to us from the pen of a well-known woman of pioneer Adventist stock, Mrs. Marion C. Truesdail. The experience …

7752 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 30.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… is referred to by some of our early workers as a repetition of the vision at Exeter, Maine, in mid-February, 1845. Many of the same points are dealt with. She saw …

7753 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 32.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… reformations” referred to on page 27 ( Early Writings, 45 ) are yet to be more fully seen. This view relates more particularly to those who have heard and rejected …

7754 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 32.3 (Arthur Lacey White)

Reference was made on page 26 to Ellen Harmon’s experience in Paris, Maine, in the summer of 1845 as reported by Mrs. Truesdail.

7755 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 32.4 (Arthur Lacey White)

Elder Loughborough, in an article in the The Review and Herald, September 25, 1866, quoted on page 22 after making reference to the vision given to Ellen White in Exeter, Maine, in mid-February, 1845, states:

7756 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 37.6 (Arthur Lacey White)

… a reference made by Ellen White in her 1883 statement written in answer to A. C. Long (Mr. C.). In this statement the man referred to is Elder J. H. Waggoner, a newspaper …

7757 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 39.2 (Arthur Lacey White)

Before discussing these deletions she refers to, allow us to review the various printings of her first vision up to this time.

7758 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 39.5 (Arthur Lacey White)

3. The James White printing in his 24 page pamphlet “A Word to the Little Flock” published in Brunswick, Maine, May 30, 1847, with Scripture references he added. Pages 14-16.

7759 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 39.6 (Arthur Lacey White)

Except for very minor editorial changes the three printings of the vision are identical. As “A Word to the Little Flock” is currently available in a facsimile reprint, our reference will be to this source. (See Exhibit 1.)

7760 Ellen G. White and the Shut Door Question, p. 41.1 (Arthur Lacey White)

… . It referred to “all the wicked world which God had rejected.” In speaking of an experience which was in the near past, it would be reasonable to assume that isolated …