Introduction
- Some fifteen years after Mrs. White’s death the files of her
unpublished writings—then at the Elmshaven office in California—
were reindexed, and certain choice materials drawn from her letters and
manuscripts were at that time published in leaflet form. These covered
various topics of interest especially to Seventh-day Adventist workers,
such as “Christian Experience,” “Methods of Labor,” “Education,”
“The Church,” et cetera. These were first published as the “Elmshaven
Leaflets,” but were later issued under the title Notebook Leaflets. The
series grew to a total of forty-two separate items, tied together as a
unit.
In the years succeeding the publication of Notebook Leaflets, such
Ellen G. White works as Medical Ministry, Evangelism, Child Guid-
ance, Welfare Ministry, and The Adventist Home, drew heavily on the
manuscript sources from which the leaflets were originally selected,
and provided much of the material, or closely paralleling material, in
permanent book form. This has greatly lessened the mission of and
the demand for the Notebook Leaflets.
Certain of the leaflets, however, miscellaneous in nature and char-
acter, relating to Christian experience and some other important topics,
have not been paralleled or duplicated in the Ellen G. White books is-
sued since her death. These are now found, here and there, in Selected
Messages. The largest grouping of such Notebook Leaflets materials
appears in this section dealing with Christian experience.
White Trustees.
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