Ellen G. White and Her Critics

Charge Number 4

Mrs. White wrote: “It seems impossible to have the war conducted successfully.”—Testimonies for the Church 1:256. EGWC 118.1

“Yes, to her it was uncertain, impossible to succeed. But was that all God knew about it?—all He could tell her?” EGWC 118.2

It is difficult to see how the critic can construe this statement into a false prophecy. Even prophets, when they write concerning the passing scene, describe it as it then appears. This is what she was doing. She does not say that it could not be possible, or that it would not be possible, at some date in the future, for the war to be conducted successfully. EGWC 118.3