Introduction
In the preparation of a volume of miscellaneous counsels published
decades after Ellen White’s death, it is to be expected that some pages
will be devoted to the coming crisis and the experience of the church
as we near the time for the second coming of Christ. The counsels
included in this section have been drawn largely from Ellen G. White
articles as they have appeared in our various journals and from items
published in Notebook Leaflets
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These stirring messages do not present anything startlingly new,
and there is considerable repetition of thought; but to a people who are
expecting to meet their Lord soon, each statement that has a bearing
on the crisis before us will be read with eager interest
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The closing chapter, “the last messages to the General Conference,”
represents the two formal statements Mrs. White prepared and sent to
be read at the General Conference in session in 1913—the last held
while she lived. Excerpts from these two messages have appeared
elsewhere in print. It seems appropriate that the full statements should
be included here, indicating, as they do, Mrs. White’s confidence in
the leaders of the church and its final triumph
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White Trustees
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