Ellen G. White — Messenger to the Remnant

Reprinted Again in 1871

Another nine numbers of the Testimonies appeared in pamphlet form between the years 1865 and 1870. By the year 1871, although many of the later numbers were available at the office of publication, the earlier numbers were again out of print. To meet this increasing demand, Numbers 1-16 were printed and bound in two books of about five hundred pages each. In speaking of this reprint, Elder James White makes the following statement which explains the appearance of all of the Testimonies in their completeness in this new series. In the Preface he wrote: EGWMR 65.1

“During the period of sixteen years Mrs. White has published her ‘Testimonies to the Church’ in a series of pamphlets, which, at this date, number twenty. But as the editions of the first numbers were small, and have long since been exhausted, we are not able to furnish the series complete to the numerous friends who subsequently embrace the views of Seventh-day Adventists. The call for these ‘Testimonies’ being large, we republish, and offer them in this form. EGWMR 65.2

“And we are happy to do this, inasmuch as the ‘Testimonies,’ given under the trying, and ever-changing circumstances of the past sixteen years, ever breathing the same high-toned spirit of Scriptural piety, contain in themselves the best evidences of their being what they profess to be. EGWMR 65.3

“There are in them matters of a local and personal character, which do not have a direct bearing upon our time. But as many have desired it, we give them complete” [italics ours].—Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, 1871 edition. EGWMR 65.4