Chapter 53—Last Messages to the General
Conference
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Two messages were sent by Ellen G. White in 1913 to the General
Conference in session. The first was read by Elder W. C. White to the
conference in session on the afternoon of the first Sabbath of the
meeting, May 17
.]
“Elmshaven.” Sanitarium, California
May 4, 1913
To those assembled in General Conference, Greeting!
My Dear Brethren,
“Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord
Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us
in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are
in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God” (
2 Corinthians 1:2-4
).
“Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in
Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in
every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them
that are saved, and in them that perish” (
2 Corinthians 2:14, 15
).
“We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves
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your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power
may be of God, and not of us” (
2 Corinthians 4:5-7
).
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish,
yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
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