Preface
In this little volume there is gathered for busy readers a choice
selection of short articles from the writings of Mrs. E. G. White.
Mrs. White was engaged in evangelical work for more than seventy
years. Her public ministry began in Maine, and closed in California.
She addressed congregations, large and small, on religious and tem-
perance themes, in nearly every state in the union. She also spent two
years of very active service in England, France, Switzerland, Germany,
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; and eight years in Australia, New
Zealand, and Tasmania.
The story of her early life and her experiences from very childhood
in winning souls to Christ, as told in this volume in her own simple
language presents to the reader a most interesting narrative of Christian
ministry.
Whether traveling by horse and carriage in the New England states
of America, by canal boat in central New York, with a train of emigrant
teams in Texas and Oklahoma, by tourist railroad trains to California,
or by the great ocean steamers crossing the Atlantic or the Pacific
Ocean, or wherever she might be, she sought to improve every oppor-
tunity to speak to the people “all the words of this life.”
In addition to her labors as an evangelist, Mrs. White contributed
regularly to several religious journals. She also wrote many books.
Foremost among these are five volumes describing the conflict carried
on throughout the ages, between Christ and Satan. The first volume of
this series, “The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets,” and the last of the
series, “The Great Controversy,” have been translated and published
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in many languages. Her little book “Steps to Christ” has been printed
in more than forty languages. All her writings breathe the purest
devotion, and teach the highest morality. They reveal the devices of
Satan, and warn us against his snares. They lead to Christ, and exalt
the teachings of the Bible.
It was the cherished plan of Mrs. White to prepare for publication
several small volumes, containing in the fewest pages, the mighty,
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