Ellen G. White and Her Critics

The Charge Narrowed Down

The republication of Experience and Views in 1882 silenced the charge of suppression that had been raised when it went out of print about 1860. The explanation that Experience and Views did not claim to contain all Mrs. White’s earliest writings, took the edge off the charge that certain unpublished writings were suppressed when Early Writings was published. The critics therefore have narrowed down their charge to this: EGWC 275.2

When the text of two of Mrs. White’s visions, as published in Experience and Views, is compared with the text of their earlier appearance in A Word to the “Little Flock,” it is found that there are some omissions. These deletions, it is charged, can be explained only as evidence of a desire to suppress abandoned beliefs. EGWC 275.3

And how was this charge met by Butler and the publishers of Early Writings? By the prompt publication of these two visions in undeleted form as a twelve-page tract entitled To the Remnant Scattered Abroad. The tract was advertised at “3 cts. a copy.”—The Review and Herald, August 28, 1883, p. 560. EGWC 276.1