APPENDIX

Selections from The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials

(The statements reproduced here contain her explicit endorsements of the message of ]ones and Waggoner. There are many more that are implicit in the four volumes and in some Review articles. In reading through this material one has a sense of déjà vu; as a church we are re-living this history all over again a century later. The same unfair criticism of Jones and Waggoner and their message has featured prominently in our current denominational publications. In her day, Ellen White was heart’ sick to see us repeating the history of the Jews. What would she say today to see us repeat it again?)


Paging references are to the four volumes of

The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials


VOLUME ONE

  1. Dr. Waggoner has opened to you precious light, not new, but old light which has been lost sight of by many minds, and is now shining forth in clear rays (p. 175).
  2. … these men whom God has appointed to do a special work in His cause (p. 186).
  3. … We have had to work and pray and work even to have Brother Jones obtain a hearing in Battle Creek (p. 189).
  4. Brother A. T. Jones spoke to the people, also Brother E. J. Waggoner, and the people heard many precious things that would be to them a comfort and a strength to their faith (pp. 205-206).
  5. … The Lord has raised up men and given them a solemn message to bear to His people (p. 210).
  6. Elder E. J. Waggoner had the privilege … of presenting his views upon justification by faith and the righteousness of Christ in relation to the law. This was no new light, but it was old light placed where it should be in the third angel’s message (p. 211).
  7. … I had heard precious truths uttered that I could respond to with all my heart, … I felt inexpressibly grateful to God, for I knew it was the message for this time. (p. 217).
  8. … a Christ-like spirit manifested, such as Elder E. J. Waggoner had shown all through the presentation of his views (p. 219).
  9. … men whom they and I had reason to respect (228).
  10. … He has given these men [A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner] a work to do, and a message to bear which is present truth for this time,
  11. … the very message that I know to be present truth for the people of God for this time. (p. 274).
  12. … He has great light for us at this time (p. 276).
  13. … God had made these men messengers to give light and truth to the people (p. 179).
  14. Elder A. T. Jones has labored faithfully to instruct those assembled and in breaking to their souls the Bread of Life. … The plan of salvation so clearly and simply defined (p. 280).
  15. … The plan of salvation … has been made so clear that a child may understand (p. 281).
  16. If this message that has been preached here is not present truth for this time, I know not how we can determine what is truth (p. 286).
  17. Elder Jones and myself occupied the preaching hours, and the Lord imparted to the speakers His grace in rich measure (p. 288).
  18. I think that Elder A. T. Jones should attend our large camp meetings, and give to our people and to outsiders as well the precious subject of faith and the righteousness of Christ (p. 291).
  19. Brother Jones has patiently instructed the people (p. 291).
  20. … work was being carried to make of none effect the labors of Eld. A. T. Jones and my work (p. 298).
  21. … clear waters of the streams of Lebanon (p. 305).
  22. … the way my brethren treated the servants whom the Lord sent to them with messages of truth (p. 317).
  23. Brother A. T. Jones talked upon the subject of justification by faith, and many received it as light and truth (p. 317).
  24. … contempt for their brethren whom the Lord sent with a message to them (p. 322).
  25. … they have thought and said worse things of Brethren Jones and Waggoner (p. 323).
  26. … That which was light from heaven was resisted (p. 334).
  27. You place Elder Jones in a false position just as … others placed him in at Minneapolis (336).
  28. What do you think of this light that these men are presenting? Why I have been presenting it to you for the last 45 years—the matchless charms of Christ. … When Brother Waggoner brought out these ideas in Minneapolis, it was the first clear teaching of this subject from any human lips I had heard, excepting the conversations between myself and my husband. … And when another presented it, every fiber of my heart said, Amen (p. 349).
  29. … their own incorrect version of the matter, which was unfavorable to Brethren A. T. Jones, E. J. Waggoner, W. C. White and myself (p. 352).
  30. … Brother Jones will wait for an invitation from you. You should do your duty in regard to this matter and open the way before him (p. 355).
  31. … used all their powers to pick some flaws in the messengers and in the message, and they grieved the Spirit of God (p. 368).
  32. … It was not pleasant to fight every inch for any privileges and advantages to bring the truth before the people (p. 379).
  33. The Lord is speaking through His delegated messengers (p. 398).
  34. … continue to reject Christ in the person of His messengers (p. 398).
  35. You reject Christ in rejecting the message He sends (p. 399).
  36. God has sent messages of light to His people, … those whom God has made channels of light (p. 400).
  37. God has sent you a message which He wishes you to receive—a message of light and hope and comfort for the people of God (p. 404).
  38. It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for them to place themselves between the people and the message that He would have come to them (p. 406).
  39. … go over the same ground of refusing the message of mercy as the Jews did in the time of Christ (p. 406).
  40. … the special work He is doing at this time to arouse a lukewarm, slumbering church (p. 414).
  41. … the message which the Lord sends, … the light of heaven (p. 415).
  42. The Lord has been appealing to His people in warnings, in reproofs, in counsels; but their ears have been deaf to the words of Jesus. Some have said, “If this message that Brother A. T. Jones has been giving to the church is the truth why is it that Brother Smith and Brother Butler have not received it?” (p. 416).
  43. If Elder Smith or Elder Butler should reject the message of truth which the Lord has sent to the people at this time, would their unbelief make the message error? No. … Men who have occupied leading positions feel at liberty to despise the message and the messenger (pp. 418-419).
  44. … It has nearly broken my heart to see those who … reject the truth for this time. … Some who ought to have been first to catch the heavenly inspiration of truth have been directly opposed to the message of God (p. 420).
  45. When the message of God meets with opposition He gives it additional force … the message of truth (p. 421).
  46. … His chosen agents (p. 422).
  47. … His message and messengers (p. 423).
  48. … those whom God is using (p. 443).

VOLUME TWO

  1. Elder Jones presented the Bible evidence of justification by faith (p. 463).
  2. I attended the eight o’clock meeting in the side room of the tabernacle, conducted by Elder Jones. There were a large number present and he presented the subject of justification by faith in a plain, distinct manner, in such marked simplicity that no one need to be in darkness, unless he has in him a decided heart of unbelief, to resist the workings of the Spirit of God (p. 465).
  3. I fear many will go away from this meeting greatly in need of the very blessings that it is their privilege to receive, just now and notwithstanding the most precious light given upon the importance of thorough sanctification through the truth (p. 467).
  4. Judgment must not be passed hastily on any man. … Some stand criticizing and passing judgment both upon the message and the messenger sent of God (p. 499).
  5. Those who will not accept the message the Lord sends will soon begin a tirade against it. They see evidence enough to balance the mind in the right direction but they are too proud to submit. They are not willing to say that which they decided was all wrong is right (p. 499).
  6. The light which God is giving to His people may be slighted, refused, rejected, but it is thus treated at great peril to men’s souls. Brethren, God is working for us, and I feel deeply in earnest that not one ray of heaven-sent light may be regarded with indifference. God’s communication to man is to be appreciated and cherished. If we do not appreciate the light of heaven, it will be our condemnation; our position will be similar to that of the Jews when they rejected the Lord of life and glory (p. 512).
  7. I heard the jesting, the sarcastic remarks in regard to the messengers and the message—that doctrine that differed from their ideas of truth; and I was told there was a witness in every room as surely as the witness was in Belshazzar’s palace at that festival (p. 517).
  8. Why do you pursue the course you do in keeping away from meetings where points of truth are investigated? If you have a position, present it in clear lines (p. 528).
  9. If you have truth, tell it; if your brethren have truth, be humble and honest before God and say it is truth (p. 528).
  10. If the ideas presented before the Ministerial Institute are erroneous, come to the front like men and present candidly your Bible evidence why you cannot see the point as they do. This is your duty. … Do not stand in the position you do as leaders in the Sabbath School and resisting the light or views and ideas presented by men whom I know to be agents whom the Lord is using. You (sic) making of none effect as far as you can their words and not coming yourself to the light like Christians come to the word to investigate it together with humble hearts, not to investigate the Bible to bring it to your ideas, but bring your ideas to the Bible. It is your duty to do this (p. 529).
  11. Come and learn just the ideas advanced (p. 531).
  12. I know there have been efforts—a contrary influence—to throw back the light, the light which God has been forcing in here upon us in regard to the righteousness of Christ; but if God has ever spoken by me, it is the truth, brethren (p. 537).
  13. You can close the door of your heart that the light which God has sent you for the last year-and-a-half—or nearly that—shall not have its influence and its effect upon your life, nor be brought into your religious experience. This is what God sends His messengers for (p. 538).
  14. Our young men look at the older men that stand still as a stick and will not move to accept any new light that is brought in; that they will laugh and ridicule what these men say and what they do as of no consequence. Who carries the burden of that laugh, and of that contempt, I ask you? Who carries it? It is the very ones that have interposed themselves between the light that God has given, and it shall not go to the people who should have it (p. 540-41).
  15. If you have interposed between the people and the light, get out of the way, or God will move you out of the way (p. 541).
  16. … that I might stand side by side with the messengers of God that I knew were His messengers, that I knew had a message for His people. I gave my message with them right in harmony with the very message they were bearing (p. 542).
  17. I have traveled from place to place, attending meetings where the message of the righteousness of Christ was preached. I considered it a privilege to stand by the side of my brethren [Jones and Waggoner] … I saw that the power of God attended the message. … God has set His hand to do this work. … Everywhere the message led to the confession of sin, and to the putting away of iniquity. … How long will those at the head of the work keep themselves aloof from the message of God? … Suppose you blot out the testimony that has been going during these last two years [1890] proclaiming the righteousness of Christ, who can you point to as bringing out special light for the people? This message as it has been presented should go to every church … the heavenly credentials (p. 545).
  18. We have light pouring in on us, and for months we have been pleading that the people would come up and accept the light; and they do not know whether to do it or not (p. 556).
  19. I believe without a doubt that God has given precious truth at the right time to Brother Jones and Brother Waggoner. Do I place them as infallible? Do I say that they will not make a statement or have an idea that cannot be questioned or that cannot be in error? Do I say so? No, I do not say any such thing. Nor do I say that of any man in the world. But I do say God has sent light, and do be careful how you treat it (p. 566).
  20. We claim God has given us light in the right time. And now we should receive the truth of God—receive it as of heavenly origin (p. 567).
  21. Do not turn away from the messages that God sends, as you did at Minneapolis (p. 571).
  22. We have not a doubt but that the Lord was with Elder Waggoner as he spoke yesterday. We have not a doubt of that. I have not a doubt that the power of God in rich measure was hanging over us, and everything was light in the Lord to me yesterday afternoon in the ministers’ meeting (p. 607).
  23. If we place ourselves in a position that we will not recognize the light God sends or His messages to us, then we are in danger of sinning against the Holy Ghost. Then for us to turn and see if we can find some little thing that is done that we can hang some of our doubts upon and begin to question! The question is, has God sent the truth? Has God raised up these men to proclaim the truth? I say, yes, God has sent men to bring us the truth that we should not have had unless God had sent somebody to bring it to us. God has let me have a light of what His Spirit is, and therefore I accept it, and I no more dare to lift my hand against these persons, because it would be against Jesus Christ, who is to be recognized in His messengers (p. 608).
  24. Now, I want you to be careful, every one of you, what position you take, whether you enshroud yourselves in the clouds of unbelief because you see imperfections; you see a word or a little item, perhaps, that may take place, and judge them from that (pp. 608-09).
  25. I am glad—yes, I am so thankful—that some are beginning to see that there is light for us (p. 612).
  26. God has shown me that He raised up men here to carry the truth to His people, and that this is the truth (p. 614).
  27. Yesterday E. J. Waggoner gave a most powerful discourse. I have heard from many who were present, and their testimony was unanimous that God spoke through him (p. 617).
  28. Elder Waggoner spoke very humbly (p. 625).
  29. Waggoner spoke well (p. 628).
  30. I sent word for Brother [Dan] Jones [General Conference Secretary] to invite Elder Waggoner to speak. There seemed to be a little reluctance, but finally he was invited and gave a most precious discourse on the message to the Laodicean church—just what was needed (p. 629).
  31. I say it is from beneath and not in harmony with the Spirit of God, or with the message He has given His servants to bear at the present time (p. 630-31).
  32. Every such mind that is susceptible to unbelief and the say-so of this one and that one, and that works against the light and the evidences that have been presented since the Minneapolis meeting—I tell you, brethren, I am terribly afraid that they will fall at last (p. 638).
  33. When [God] manifests His power as He has manifested it, it is very nigh unto the sin of the Holy Ghost to disbelieve it (p. 639).
  34. God has shown me that He raised up men here to carry the truth to His people (p. 640).
  35. Brother Jones talked very plainly, yet tenderly in regard to their crediting hearsay and not, in brotherly love, taking the matter to the one talked about and asking him if the report were true (p. 642).
  36. God has raised up His messengers to do His work for this time. Some have turned from the message of the righteousness of Christ to criticize the men and their imperfections, because they do not speak the message of truth with all the grace and polish desirable. They have too much zeal, are too much in earnest, speak with too much positiveness. … Christ has registered all the hard, proud, sneering speeches spoken against His servants as against Himself.
  37. … The light which will lighten the earth with its glory will be called a false light by those who refused to walk in its advancing glory. … Messages bearing the divine credentials have been sent to God’s people, … set forth among us with beauty and loveliness, to charm all whose hearts were not closed with prejudice (p. 673).
  38. If Underwood is still in his opposition state, at war in feelings against A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner, keep him east (p. 688).
  39. The result of this opposition has required the delivery of this matter the more earnestly and decidedly, causing deeper searching into the subject and calling out an array of arguments that the messenger himself did not know was so firm, so full, so thorough upon this subject of justification by faith and the righteousness of Christ as our only hope (p. 703).
  40. The men who ought to have stood in the light, their voices heard on the right side of the question, were exercised on the wrong side to oppose that which was of God and resist that message which the Lord sends (p. 703).
  41. Elders Millers both presented your case as evidence that they should resist the Spirit of God, the message and the messenger. Bro. Rupert has a work of confession [to do] (p. 733).
  42. You responded to my letter of appeal by writing me a letter accusing Elder Jones of tearing up the pillars of our faith. Was this truth? … Christ knocked for entrance but no room was made for Him … and the light of His glory, so nigh, was withdrawn (p. 734).
  43. The God of Israel has opened the windows of heaven and sent to the world rich floods of light, but that light has been rejected (p. 746).
  44. “What sign showest thou?” … same words spoken to me since the Minneapolis meeting. … Now I feel no inclination to converse with the men who occupy responsible positions … I have more freedom speaking to unbelievers than to those who hold responsible positions, and who have had so great light (pp. 798, 799).
  45. Since the General Conference of 1888, Satan has been working with special power through unconsecrated elements to weaken the confidence of God’s people in the voice that has been appealing to them for these many years (p. 803).
  46. Much precious light was brought out at this meeting [Minneapolis, 1888]. … I have heard many testimonies in all parts of the field: “I found light, precious light.” “My Bible is a new Book” (p. 828).
  47. There will be those who will resist the light and crowd down those whom God has made His channels to communicate light. … The watchmen have not kept pace with the opening providence of God, and the real heaven-sent message and messengers are scorned (p. 831).
  48. Those who do not in this place yield to the evidence God has given will war against their brethren whom God is using (p. 831).
  49. The enemy took possession of minds and their judgment was worthless, their decisions were evil, for they did not have the mind of Christ. They were doing continual injustice to the persons they talked about, and they had a demoralizing effect upon the conference (p. 837).
  50. The Lord has men of opportunity through whom He is working. From this meeting there will be decided changes in our churches. There is a faith professed but a decided want of that faith that works by love and purifies the soul (p. 838).
  51. I am warned again and again of what will be the result of this warfare you have persistently maintained against the truth (p. 842).
  52. When you stated that you had not had feelings against Eld. Waggoner, and Eld. A. T. Jones, I was surprised. Perhaps you thought thus, but how could you think thus, is a mystery to me. The feelings cherished by yourself and Elder Butler were not only despising the message, but the messengers. But the blindness of mind has come by warring against the light which the Lord designed to come to His people (p. 846).
  53. [Elder Prescott] then confessed that at the Minneapolis meeting, and since that time, he had not had altogether right feelings. He asked the forgiveness of all, and especially of Brethren Waggoner and Jones. Brother Jones, I think, was not present. He then took the arm of Brother Smith, and both went forward. Brother Smith thus made a start, but, although Brother Prescott opened the way, he did not improve the opportunity. All he said was, “the matter comes home to me; it means me” (p. 862).
  54. Oh, how I yearned in spirit for the men who, by resistance of light which God has given, have for the past two years hedged up the way that the Spirit of God shall not find access to their hearts. I heard a voice say to them, “You still are unbelieving. Stand aside or close up the ranks by coming into line and uniting in the work wholeheartedly” (p. 867).
  55. I spoke from John, chapter 15. … Elder E. J. Waggoner followed, speaking on baptism. … E. J. Waggoner administered the sacred ordinance to nine willing souls who felt that it was their duty to be baptized, and they were received into the church (p. 874).
  56. In their boarding places in Minneapolis [at the General Conference, Elder Smith and Brother Rupert] … made light of the truth and of those who advocated the truth (p. 875).
  57. Elder Waggoner called and was very urgent that I should speak again to the ministerial class (p. 889).
  58. There is increased light for us … When I see my brethren stirred with anger against God’s messages and messengers, I think of similar scenes in the life of Christ and the Reformers . .. treating the light sent them in the very same way that the Jews treated the light Christ brought them (p. 911).
  59. To ignore the Spirit of God, to charge it with being the spirit of the devil, placed [the Jews] in a position where God had no power to reach their hearts.
  60. Some in Battle Creek will surely reach this point if they do not change their course. … They are following in the path of guilt for which there can be no forgiveness, in this life or in the life to come. … In this our day men have placed themselves where they are wholly unable to fulfil the conditions of repentance and confession; therefore they cannot find mercy and pardon. …
  61. The Lord has been calling His people. … But the message and the messengers have not been received but despised. …
  62. In rejecting the messages given at Minneapolis, men committed sin. They have committed far greater sin by retaining for years the same hatred against God’s messengers, by rejecting the truth that the Holy Spirit has been urging home (pp. 912, 913).

VOLUME THREE

  1. What pain of heart I have because of the spirit which has characterized the board meetings and councils! What a spirit has been brought into them! The ideas and opinions of one affect another, and there has been a large amount of caviling and witticism. A Witness has been in your meetings and registered it all. These weapons debase the one who uses them, but give him no victories. There has been a bringing down of sacred things to the common. Witticisms and your sharp criticisms, after the infidel style, please the devil but not the Lord. The Spirit of God has not been controlling in your councils. There have been misstatements of messengers and of the messages they bring. How dare you do it? (p. 941).
  2. There is a satanic accusing of the men who should be respected, whom God is using (p. 947).
  3. I would not now rehearse before you the evidences in the past two years of the dealings of God by His chosen servants; but the present evidence of His working is revealed to you (p. 954; 1890).
  4. Be careful how you take a position against Elder Waggoner. Have you not the best of evidence that the Lord has been communicating light through him? I have. … (p. 977).
  5. The Lord has raised up messengers, and endued them with his Spirit … Let no one run the risk of interposing himself between the people and the message from heaven (p. 992).
  6. You are altogether too sharp and severe toward your brethren who are younger in years, and yet whom the Lord is manifestly using to give light to His people (p. 1004).
  7. The Lord Jesus is dishonored whenever brethren of the same faith accuse another and lessen the influence of one of God’s delegated messengers. The enemies of truth will make the very most of the least item by which they can excite suspicion of the men through whom God is giving light to the people. To place any obstruction in the way of this light coming to the people, will be registered as a grievous sin in the sight of God. … Let not the influence graciously given you of God to save souls from ruin be employed in weakening the influence of others whom the Lord is using (p. 1009).
  8. You have thought that you could see inconsistencies in A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner. … In the intensity of their feelings they may make mistakes; their expressions may sometimes be stronger than will impress minds favorably. But … I know of no sins greater … than cherishing jealousy and hatred toward … a brother who presents a view that is not in exact harmony with their understanding of the Scriptures. Self arises, a fierce and determined spirit is aroused. They will place the brother in a position that hurts his influence … Upon whom does the hurt come? Upon the Son of the infinite God (p. 1011).
  9. Your brethren are not as worthless rubbish, that they can be held so cheap as some have been during the past few years. In the books of heaven there are stern records to be examined, in regard to the manner in which some have dealt with the purchase of the blood of Christ (p. 1012).
  10. We should be the last people on the earth to indulge in the slightest degree the spirit of persecution against those who are bearing the message of God to the world. This is the most terrible feature of unchristlikeness that has manifested itself among us since the Minneapolis meeting. Sometime it will be seen in its true bearing, with all the burden of woe that has resulted from it (p. 1013).
  11. We have expected than an angel is to come down from heaven, that the earth will be lightened with his glory. … But this mighty angel comes bearing no soft, smooth message, but words that are calculated to sir the hearts of men to their very depths (p. 1015).
  12. Some may say, “I do not hate my brother; I am not as bad as that.” But how little they understand their own hearts. They may think they have a zeal for God in their feelings against their brother, if his ideas seem in any way to conflict with theirs; feelings are brought to the surface that have no kinship with love. They show no disposition to harmonize with him. They would as lief be at swords’ point with their brother as not. And yet he may be bearing a message from God to the people—just the light they need for this time (p. 1022).
  13. Will the Lord’s messenger bear the pressure brought against him? If so, it is because God bids him stand in his strength and vindicate the truth that is sent of God (p. 1023).
  14. When the truth is presented by one who is himself sanctified through it, it has a freshness, a force, that gives it a convincing power to the hearer. The truth, in its power upon the heart, is precious, and the truth addressed to the understanding is clear. Both are needful—the word and the inward testimony of the Spirit (p. 1024).
  15. There has been a determined effort to make of no effect the message God has sent (p. 1024).
  16. Should the Lord’s messengers, after standing manfully for the truth for a time, fall under temptation, and dishonor Him who has given them their work, will that be proof that the message is not true? No, because the Bible is true (p. 1025).
  17. I ask, What means the contention and strife among us? What means this harsh, iron spirit, which is seen in our churches and in our institutions, and which is so utterly unchristlike? I have deep sorrow of heart because I have seen how readily a word or action of Elder Jones or Elder Waggoner is criticized. How readily many minds overlook all the good that has been done through them in the few years past, and see no evidence that God is working through these instrumentalities (p. 1026).
  18. The Lord has given abundance of evidence in messages of light and salvation. No more tender calls, no better opportunities, could be given them in order that they might do that which they ought to have done at Minneapolis. The light has been withdrawing from some, and ever since they have walked in sparks of their own kindling (p. 1030).
  19. The levity of some, the free speeches of others, the manner of treating the messenger and the message when in their private stopping places, the spirit that stirred to action from beneath, all stand registered in the books of heaven (p. 1031).
  20. Men have done so much harm in their blindness, working against the messengers and messages God has sent, that I fear it would be a great mistake to reward them by giving them positions of trust as true men to be depended upon (p. 1034).
  21. Avoid all impressions which savor of extremes; for those who are watching for a chance will seize hold of any words strongly expressed to justify them in their feelings of calling you an extremist (p. 1038).
  22. Then let not the chosen of God be found in opposition to the messengers and messages He sends … not against brethren, not against the Lord’s anointed (p. 1038).
  23. Some have made confession. … Others have made no confession, for they were too proud to do this, and they have not come to the light. They were moved at the meeting by another spirit, and they knew not that God had sent these young men, Elders Jones and Waggoner, to bear a special message to them, which they treated with ridicule and contempt, not realizing that the heavenly intelligences were looking upon them and registering their words in the books of heaven (p. 1043).
  24. The people of God have had an opportunity to see what is the work these agents are doing, and yet those who are opposed to the points of truth which they brought out will, if occasion affords them a chance, make it appear that they are not in harmony with them, as much as to say, Beware of what they teach, for they carry matters to the extreme; they are not safe men (p. 1044).
  25. I pray that these men upon whom God has laid the burden of a solemn work may be able to give the trumpet a certain sound, and honor God at every step, and that their path at every step may grow brighter and brighter, until the close of time (p. 1045).
  26. The more closely we walk with Christ, the center of all love and light, the greater will be our affection for His lightbearers. … You cannot love God and yet fail to love your brethren (p. 1049).
  27. We should pray not only that laborers may be sent forth into the great harvest field, but that we may have a clear conception of truth, so that when the messengers of truth shall come we may accept the message and respect the messenger (p. 1050).
  28. Both message and messenger have been held in doubt by those who should have been the first to discern and act upon it as the word of God (p. 1051).
  29. Fear to ridicule the message or the messenger (p. 1052).
  30. The true Christian will fear to make light of God’s message, lest he may lay a stumbling block in the way of a soul (p. 1052).
  31. The message given us by A. T. Jones, and E. J. Waggoner is the message of God to the Laodicean church (p. 1052).
  32. The many and confused ideas in regard to Christ’s righteousness and justification by faith are the result of the position you have taken toward the man and the message sent of God (p. 1053).
  33. Why take so much account of that which may appear to you as objectionable in the messenger, and sweep away all the evidences that God has given to balance the mind in regard to the truth? (p. 1060).
  34. No one who has enlisted to serve God will be free from temptation. Satan will say, “Do not be carried away with any whimsical notion. Do not work like a slave unless you are well paid for it” (p. 1064).
  35. You [nephew, Frank] did unite with those who resisted the Spirit of God. You had all the evidence that you needed that the Lord was working through Brethren Jones and Waggoner; but you did not receive the light … that these men had a message from God, and you had made light of both message and messengers (p. 1066).
  36. Never before have I seen among our people such self-complacency and unwillingness to accept and acknowledge light as was manifested at Minneapolis. I have been shown that not one of the company who cherished the spirit manifested at that meeting would again have clear light to discern the preciousness of the truth sent them from heaven until they humbled their pride and confessed that they were not actuated by the Spirit of God. … They were actuated by the same spirit that inspired Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. … [The angel of the Lord said] “The people are acting over the rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. … It is not you [Ellen White] they are despising, but the messengers and the message I send to My people. They have shown their contempt for the word of the Lord” (pp. 1067-68).
  37. God meant that the watchmen should arise and with united voices send forth a decided message. … Then the strong, clear light of that other angel who comes down from heaven having great power, would have filled the earth with his glory … the very message that God meant should go forth from the Minneapolis meeting … heavenly messengers have grieved, impatient at the delay … message of truth which angels of heaven were seeking to communicate through human agencies—justification by faith, the righteousness of Christ (pp. 1070-71).
  38. The loud cry of the third angel has already begun in the revelation of the righteousness of Christ (p. 1073).
  39. I have felt so sorry that you could not recognize the voice of Jesus, the true Shepherd. The Lord has wrought out the demonstration of truth before your eyes, yet you did not see, and your heart was not submitted to the leadings of the Holy Spirit of God (p. 1084).
  40. God may choose instrumentalities that we do not accept, because they do not exactly meet our ideas. … Then begins the dissecting of character (p. 1091).
  41. Why question and find fault with one another? Why misinterpret and misconstrue the words and acts of your brethren? Is there no better work for you to do than to discourage one another and try to put out the light of your brethren? (p. 1095).
  42. I had hoped that the truth which has been shining in clear, distinct beams of light since the Minneapolis meeting, would flood your soul (p. 1106).
  43. After this he saw in the Review the articles of Brother A. T. Jones in regard to the image of the beast, and then the one from Elder Smith presenting the opposite view. He was perplexed and troubled. He had received much light and comfort in reading articles from Brethren Jones and Waggoner; but here was one of the old laborers, one who had written many of our standard books, and whom we had believed to be taught of God, who seemed to be in conflict with Brother Jones (p. 1119).
  44. We are not to spurn the message nor the messengers by whom God shall send light to His people (p. 1121).
  45. Those who opposed Brethren Jones and Waggoner manifested no disposition to meet them like brethren, and with the Bible in hand consider prayerfully and in a Christlike spirit the points of difference (p. 1122).
  46. Brother Jones has been giving the message for this time—meat in due season for the starving flock of God (p. 1122).
  47. Brother Jones seeks to arouse the professed people of God from their death-like slumber. … Instantly Brother Gage is aroused; he harnesses for the battle, and before the congregation in the tabernacle he takes his position in opposition to Brother Jones. Was this in the order of God? Did the Spirit of the Lord go from Brother Jones and inspire Brother Gage to do this work? (p. 1122-23).
  48. “Who required this at your hand, to rise up against the message and the messengers I sent to My people with light, with grace and power? Why have you lifted up your souls against God? Why did you block the way with your own perverse spirit? And afterward when evidence was piled upon evidence, why did you not humble your hearts before God, and repent of your rejection of the message of mercy He sent you?” (p. 1126).
  49. The power of every mind … is to be employed, not to hedge up the way before the messages God sends to His people (p. 1127).
  50. [These brethren] might have been God’s instruments to carry the work forward with power; but their influence was exerted to counteract the Lord’s message, to make the work appear questionable. Every jot and tittle of this will have to be repented of (p. 1128).
  51. The opposition in our own ranks has imposed upon the Lord’s messengers a laborious and soul-trying task, for they have had to meet difficulties and obstacles which need not have existed (p. 1128).
  52. The influence that grew out of the resistance of light and truth at Minneapolis tended to make of no effect the light God had given to His people through the Testimonies (p. 1129).
  53. In the blessings that have since accompanied the presentation of the truth, justification by faith and the imputed righteousness of Christ, they have not discerned increased evidence from God as to where and how He is and has been working (p. 1136).
  54. You have but in a partial way been in harmony with the work that brethren Jones and Waggoner have under God been doing to bring up the church to understand their true state and come to the supper prepared for them (p. 1137).
  55. “Why did you not accept the message I sent through My servants? Why did you watch those men to find something to question and doubt, when you should have accepted the message that bore the imprint of the Most High?” (p. 1138).
  56. Can you not discern who has the message to give to the people for this time? (p. 1139).
  57. Think you, my brother, if the Lord has raised up men to give to the world a message to the people to prepare them to stand in the great day of God, that any one could by their influence stop the work and close the mouth of the messengers? No (p. 1140).
  58. Is the work that has been going on since the Minneapolis meeting of God? If not, it is of another spirit. … I know that the Lord is in this work (p. 1141).
  59. He saw the articles by Elder Jones on the formation of the image, and was greatly blessed in reading them. Then came Elder Smith’s article opposed to Elder Jones. This brought him into trial just before the week of prayer (p. 1143).
  60. We must not disparage the Lord’s message or his messengers (p. 1146).
  61. My brother, I am not pleased to have you feel as you do in regard to Brethren Waggoner, Jones, and Prescott. Had these men had the cooperation of our ministering brethren, and had they drawn in even cords, the work would be years in advance of what it is now. It is not pleasing to the Lord for you to retain the feelings you do in these matters.
  62. These men [Jones and Waggoner] are working in their line and must attend to the duties of their section of the work, which is of immense responsibility (p. 1147).
  63. The course which has been pursued toward Elder Jones has been an offense to God (p. 1156).
  64. We have every evidence that the Lord is using Elder Jones, Elder Waggoner, and Professor Prescott; and with this evidence before us, it pains my heart that any of my brothers in the faith should feel impatient and bitter toward them, and refuse to draw in cords of love and unity with them (p. 1156).
  65. Brethren Prescott, Jones, and Waggoner are fallible. You are fully as fallible. They may err in some points. You also may err in some points (p. 1158).
  66. The Lord has raised up Brother Jones and Brother Waggoner to proclaim a message to the world to prepare a people to stand in the day of God (p. 1208b).
  67. Light from heaven has been called excitement. … We must be very careful not to grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in pronouncing the ministration of His Holy Spirit a species of fanaticism (p. 1210).
  68. I have been afraid, terribly afraid[,] that those who felt the bright beams of the Sun of righteousness … will come to the conclusion that God’s heaven-sent blessings are a delusion (p. 1212).
  69. I am indeed sorry both for brother Prescott and brother Jones. I have felt very anxious in regard to them both, but especially in regard to Bro. Jones who is so ardent in his faith, and does not manifest the caution he should in his statements by pen or voice. I did pray that these dear brethren would be so completely hid in Christ Jesus, that they would not make one misstep. I have more confidence in them today than I have had in the past, and fully believe that God will be their helper, their comfort and their hope (p. 1240; 1894).
  70. Keep the heart with all diligence lest by one unwise impulse, we shall grieve and distress one of the Lord’s chosen messengers. “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm” (p. 1241).
  71. Bro. Jones and Prescott are the Lord’s chosen messengers, beloved of God. They have cooperated with God in the work for this time. … These brethren are God’s ambassadors. They have been quick to catch the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness, and have responded by imparting the heavenly light to others (pp. 1241-42).
  72. Let every soul who has received the theory of the truth now take heed how they treat God’s messengers. Let no one be found working on Satan’s side of the question, as an accuser of the brethren (p. 1242).
  73. [Some] will exalt the messenger above the message, … forgetting that it is God working wondrously through him for His own name’s glory (p. 1244).
  74. They should give glory to God because they see through the interpretation of the word from the lips of the messenger, marvelous things out of the living oracles (p. 1244).
  75. Some will ask why it is that these messengers who fed us with the bread from heaven, should make a mistake? … Men who have been chosen of God to do a special work have been imperiled because the people have looked to the men in the place of looking to God (p. 1244-45).
  76. The Lord has chosen men to bear light and messages of great importance to the people in these last days (p. 1245).
  77. Every inch of the ground had to be fought in presenting the present message, and some have not been reconciled with the providence of God in selecting the very men whom He did select to bear this special message. They ask, Why it is that He has not chosen men who have been long in the work? … God has chosen the very men He wanted, and we have reason to thank Him that these men have carried forward the work with faithfulness, and have been the mouthpiece for God (p. 1245).
  78. Those men [Jones and Waggoner] are chosen of the Lord (p. 1246).
  79. Did the men who have thus been warned step quickly into the path that was marked out for them, as these two brethren have done? No, they did not (p. 1246).
  80. … because the chosen of God have been too ardent in their ideas (p. 1247).
  81. Let those men who have not received the draught from the wells of salvation … (p. 1247).
  82. … with the men who were chosen to give the message which the people needed in these last days (p. 1247).
  83. … these men whom God was using (p. 1247).
  84. The chosen agents of God … (p. 1247).
  85. … faithful watchmen (p. 1248).
  86. … men who have born the message of God (p. 1248).
  87. … the Lord … has given them their message (p. 1248).
  88. … men to whom God has given the message of truth to give to the world at this time (p. 1249).
  89. … brethren who have been doing His work (p. 1249).
  90. … message God has given (p. 1249)
  91. Those who are content with the form of godliness exclaim “Be careful, do not go to extremes” (p. 1251).
  92. The very men whom God has entrusted with a message for His people have not been treated with respect (p. 1299).
  93. … the message and the messengers (p. 1300).
  94. … the men who have borne this gospel message (p. 1300).
  95. You have had a hatred of the message which His chosen messengers have proclaimed, (p. 1300).
  96. … the messengers and message God has sent (p. 1303).
  97. … the message or the messengers (p. 1309).
  98. … God’s delegated servants (p. 1309).
  99. The heaven sent message was truth (p. 1309).
  100. Yet many have listened to the truth spoken in demonstration of the Spirit, and they have not only refused to accept the message, but they have hated the light (p. 1336).
  101. The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders Waggoner and Jones (p. 1336).
  102. This is the very work which the Lord designs that the message He has given His servants shall perform in the heart and mind of every human agent (p. 1339).
  103. God gave His messengers just what the people needed (p. 1339).
  104. How long will you hate and despise the messengers of God’s righteousness? (p. 1341).
  105. … whom the Lord recognized as His servants (p. 1341).
  106. You will see that these men whom you have spoken against (p. 1342).
  107. Christ’s delegated messengers (p. 1342).
  108. Why do you cherish such bitterness against Elder A. T. Jones and Elder Waggoner? (p. 1353).
  109. God has given Brother Jones and Brother Waggoner a message for the people. You do not believe that God has upheld them, but He has given them precious light, and their message has fed the people of God. When you reject the message borne by these men, you reject Christ, the Giver of the message (p. 1353).

VOLUME FOUR

  1. … the messages God has been giving His people (p. 1395).
  2. They have chosen contempt for both the messenger and the message, from the time Eld. Jones and Waggoner were given a special work to do for these last days (p. 1395).
  3. … the messages God sends (p. 1395).
  4. I am sure from the light given me of God, the men, some of them who are the main movers in Battle Creek in councils, first need to confess to God their rejection of the messengers and the message He hath sent (p. 1410).
  5. The righteousness of Christ by faith has been ignored (p. 1436).
  6. These men have hated the messenger and the messages God has given him to proclaim (p. 1473).
  7. Some felt annoyed at this outpouring, and their own natural dispositions were manifested. They said, This is only excitement; it is not the Holy Spirit, not showers from heaven of the latter rain. … Those who resisted the Spirit of God at Minneapolis were waiting for a chance to travel over the same ground again …
  8. They pronounced in their heart and soul and words that this manifestation of the Holy Spirit was fanaticism and delusion. They stood like a rock, the waves of mercy flowing upon and around them, but beaten back by their hard and wicked hearts, which resisted the Holy Spirit’s working … disgraceful treatment of Jesus Christ, represented by the Holy Spirit. Had Christ been before them, they would have treated Him in a manner similar to that in which the Jews treated Christ (pp. 1478, 1479).
  9. The Spirit of the Lord has been upon His messengers whom He hath sent with light, precious light (p. 1485).
  10. Here is the secret of the movements made to oppose the men whom God sent with a message of blessing for His people. These men have been hated, the message was despised, as verily as Christ himself was hated and despised at His first advent. Men in responsible positions have manifested the very attributes that Satan has revealed (p. 1525).
  11. Finite men have been warring against God and the truth and the Lord’s chosen messengers, counterworking them by every means they dared to use (p. 1526).
  12. … the very men whom God has used to present light and truth which His people needed (p. 1526).
  13. Men have come to Battle Creek who have been accompanied by the Holy Spirit; but unless they fought every inch of ground over and over again, in seeking to maintain correct methods, they were at last overborne (p. 1535).
  14. Some have treated the Spirit as an unwelcome guest, refusing to receive the rich gift, refusing to acknowledge it, turning from it, and condemning it as fanaticism. … The light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory was resisted, and by the action of our own brethren has been in a great degree kept away from the world, (p. 1575)
  15. They have ridiculed, mocked, and derided God’s servants who have borne to them the message of mercy from heaven (p. 1642).
  16. The work has been carried forward in Christ’s lines (p. 1651).
  17. Men professing godliness have despised Christ in the person of His messengers. Like the Jews, they reject God’s message (p. 1651).
  18. You hated the messages sent from heaven. You manifested against Christ a prejudice of the very same character and more offensive to God than that of the Jewish nation (p. 1656).
  19. You refused to admit the truth of the heaven-sent message (p. 1656).
  20. You have most powerful truth to present (p. 1756)
  21. Your suppositions regarding the position and work of Elders A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner were incorrect (p. 1759).

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