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141 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 121.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… , and the earnest and practical character of his mind led him to desire the solid and useful rather than the showy and superficial. When, at the age of eighteen …

142 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 138.4 (Ellen Gould White)

the reformer posted his theses on the castle church, yet there was already a great falling off in the number of pilgrims that visited the church at the festival …

143 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 211.1 (Ellen Gould White)

The Protest of Spires and the Confession at Augsburg, which marked the triumph of the Reformation in Germany, were followed by years of conflict and darkness …

144 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 221.2 (Ellen Gould White)

years of age he had been appointed to the chaplaincy of a small church, and his head had been shorn by the bishop in accordance with the canon of the church …

145 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 283.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… ; when the jails were filled as close as the holds of a slave-ship; when the gutters ran foaming with blood into the Seine.... While the daily wagon-loads of victims …

146 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 318.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… twelve years. But at the age of thirty-four, the Holy Spirit impressed his heart with a sense of his condition as a sinner. He found in his former belief no assurance …

147 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 324.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… accepted the generally received view, that in the Christian age the earth is the sanctuary, and he therefore understood that the cleansing of the sanctuary …

148 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 331.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… arouse the public mind to the great things of religion, and to check the growing worldliness and sensuality of the age.”

149 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 337.3 (Ellen Gould White)

age to age the warnings which God has sent to the world by his servants have been received with like incredulity and unbelief. When the iniquity of the antediluvians …

150 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 356.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… for the coming of the Lord. The reformers did not proclaim it. Martin Luther placed the Judgment about three hundred years in the future from his day. But since …

151 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 357.2 (Ellen Gould White)

… seven years old, he was boasting to an aged Christian neighbor of the future triumph of Israel at the advent of the Messiah, when the old man said kindly, “Dear …

152 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 366.2 (Ellen Gould White)

The movement was chiefly among the lower class, and it was in the humble dwellings of the laborers that the people assembled to hear the warning. The child …

153 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 377.1 (Ellen Gould White)

In the month of February of the same year, Professor Finney, of Oberlin College, said: “We have had the facts before our minds, that, in general, the Protestant churches …

154 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 563.3 (Ellen Gould White)

the claim of infallibility put forth for eight hundred years by this haughty power? So far from being relinquished, this claim has been affirmed in the nineteenth …

155 The Great Controversy (1888 ed.), p. 682.4 (Ellen Gould White)

… for the conversion of the world as the event to mark the termination of the 2300 days. Both Mr. Miller and Mr. Bush were right on the time question, and both were …

156 The Great Controversy, p. ix.4 (Ellen Gould White)

the ages, will be brought to bear against God’s people in the final conflict. And in this time of peril the followers of Christ are to bear to the world the warning …

157 The Great Controversy, p. 18.2 (Ellen Gould White)

the altar—emblem of the offering of the Son of God. There the covenant of blessing, the glorious Messianic promise, had been confirmed to the father of the faithful …

158 The Great Controversy, p. 21.1 (Ellen Gould White)

… , was the grief of Him whose prophetic glance took in, not years, but ages! He beheld the destroying angel with sword uplifted against the city which had so long …

159 The Great Controversy, p. 23.3 (Ellen Gould White)

aged men who had seen the glory of Solomon’s temple, and who wept at the foundation of the new building, that it must be so inferior to the former. The feeling …

160 The Great Controversy, p. 65.2 (Ellen Gould White)

The Waldenses were among the first of the peoples of Europe to obtain a translation of the Holy Scriptures. (See Appendix .) Hundreds of years before the Reformation …