Ellen G. White and Her Writings
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has been recalled to my mind forcibly.—The Writing and Sending Out
of the Testimonies, 24.
No Claim to Infallibility
We have many lessons to learn, and many, many to unlearn. God
and heaven alone are infallible. Those who think that they will never
have to give up a cherished view, never have occasion to change an
opinion, will be disappointed. As long as we hold to our own ideas
and opinions with determined persistency, we cannot have the unity
for which Christ prayed.—
The Review and Herald, July 26, 1892
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In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible.
His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.—
Letter 10, 1895
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The Sacred and the Common
Sanitarium, California
March 5, 1909
I am troubled in regard to Brother A, who for some years has been
a worker in southern California. He has made some strange state-
ments, and I am pained to see him denying the testimonies as a whole
because of what seems to him an inconsistency—a statement made by
me in regard to the number of rooms in the Paradise Valley Sanitar-
ium. Brother A says that in a letter written to one of the brethren in
southern California, the statement was made by me that the sanitarium
contained forty rooms, when there were really only thirty-eight. This,
Brother A gives to me as the reason why he has lost confidence in the
testimonies....
The information given concerning the number of rooms in the
Paradise Valley Sanitarium was given, not as a revelation from the
Lord, but simply as a human opinion. There has never been revealed
to me the exact number of rooms in any of our sanitariums; and the
knowledge I have obtained of such things I have gained by inquiring
of those who were supposed to know. In my words, when speaking
upon these common subjects, there is nothing to lead minds to believe
that I receive my knowledge in a vision from the Lord and am stating
it as such....