Ellen G. White and Her Critics

Actual Slavery Today

Perhaps, with prophetic eye, she saw, what none of her critics dreamed would happen, the reinstitution of actual slavery on a large scale in our postwar world. The public press has carried numerous unchallenged accounts of the actual servitude of great numbers of war prisoners and others in certain lands. EGWC 339.1

We know that just before the last great hour an apostate religious power, in unholy alliance with the secular, will order the destruction of all who will not give obedience to its evil mandates, that indeed none may buy or sell except those who have a mark of allegiance to that power. In comment on that time Mrs. White wrote: EGWC 339.2

“As the defenders of truth refuse to honor the Sunday-sabbath, some of them will be thrust into prison, some will be exiled, some will be treated as slaves.”—The Great Controversy, 608. EGWC 339.3

Evidently, from the foregoing, we must conclude that in the very last days, even at the time when the heavens open to reveal Christ descending, there are to be “slave-masters.” And certainly it will be true that “the master must endure the seven last plagues.” That will be true no matter whether the slaves in earth’s last hour are ignorant or pious, white or colored. EGWC 339.4