Chapter 48—Danger in Adopting Worldly
Policy in the Work of God
Regarding some of the counsels given during the Salamanca vision,
and the experiences and admonitions that came to workers in the cause
of God during the next few weeks, Mrs. White wrote:
“November 3, 1890, while laboring at Salamanca, N. Y., as I
was in communion with God in the night season, I was taken out of
and away from myself to assemblies in different States, where I bore
decided testimony of reproof and warning. In Battle Creek a council
of ministers and responsible men from the publishing house and other
institutions was convened, and I heard those assembled, in no gentle
spirit, advance sentiments and urge measures for adoption that filled
me with apprehension and distress.
“Years before, I had been called to pass through a similar experi-
ence, and the Lord then revealed to me many things of vital importance,
and gave me warnings that must be delivered to those in peril. On the
night of November 3, these warnings were brought to my mind, and I
was commanded to present them before those in responsible offices of
trust, and to fail not nor be discouraged. There were laid out before
me some things which I could not comprehend; but the assurance was
given me that the Lord would not allow His people to be enshrouded in
the fogs of worldly skepticism and infidelity, bound up in bundles with
the world; but if they would only hear and follow His voice, rendering
obedience to His commandments, He would lead them above the mists
of skepticism and unbelief, and place their feet upon the Rock, where
[320]
they might breathe the atmosphere of security and triumph.
“While engaged in earnest prayer, I was lost to everything around
me; the room was filled with light, and I was bearing a message to an
assembly that seemed to be the General Conference. I was moved by
the Spirit of God to make a most earnest appeal; for I was impressed
that great danger was before us at the heart of the work. I had been,
and still was, bowed down with distress of mind and body, burdened
255