Ellen G. White and Her Critics

15. Warning Against Eli Curtis

FIRST AND ONLY PRINTING

In The Present Truth, May, 1850, page 80. The warning reads thus: EGWC 638.1

“Eli Curtis.—It is well known by many of the brethren, that Eli Curtis has published many of my visions. He has pursued such an inconsistent course for some time past; and his influence on the cause of truth is such at this time that I feel it my duty to say to the brethren that I have no faith in his course; and that he has published my visions contrary to my wishes, even after I had requested him not to publish them. EGWC 638.2

“E. G. WHITE.”

Comment on Deletion

Eli Curtis was one of many Adventists who, in the days immediately following 1844, published papers. In the style of those days he copied freely and without permission from every source. He published the Girdle of Truth, and Advent Review, in New York. An Extra of that paper, dated January 20, 1848, contains two of Mrs. White’s visions. We know little about Curtis, and nothing about his paper, except this one copy. The reason for Mrs. White’s writing as she did concerning him, and the reason why her message was not reprinted, are both evident. We have found no critic citing this as an instance of suppression. EGWC 638.3