Ellen G. White and Her Critics

13. False Reformations

FIRST AND ONLY PRINTING

In The Present Truth, March, 1850 (volume 1, number 8), page 64. EGWC 637.2

This message is quoted in full and discussed in chapter 14, pages 219, 220. EGWC 637.3

Comment on Deletion

We offer a comment only as to the probable reason why it was not reprinted. The point of this brief message is a warning against certain time setting by the publishers of the Watchman, one of many post-1844 Adventist papers. That point would obviously be lost on readers in later years. Her general statements about “excitements and false reformations,” of Christ’s rising up and shutting the door of the first apartment and withdrawing into the second, are all given, and at greater length, in the vision of March 24, 1849. The reader can compare with the text of that brief message the vision of March 24, 1849 (quoted in full in chapter 14, pages 220-222), and judge for himself whether Mrs. White suppressed some abandoned beliefs when she failed to reprint the brief message that appears only in The Present Truth, March, 1850, page 64. EGWC 637.4

The fact is that critics do not generally cite this message as an instance of suppression. EGWC 637.5