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dered our will and way to God, and most earnestly supplicated His
aid; and we never sought in vain. Many years of painful experience in
connection with the work of God have made me acquainted with all
kinds of false movements. Many times I have been sent to different
places with the message, “I have a work for you to do in that place;
I will be with you.” When the occasion came, the Lord gave me a
message for those who were having false dreams and visions, and in
the strength of Christ I bore my testimony at the Lord’s bidding. The
most terrible denunciations were hurled against me, which they said
were from the Lord, because I was opposing His work. They said
that terrible calamities would come upon me, just as your Anna has
prophesied; but I passed along perfectly conscious of the guardianship
of heavenly angels.
During the past forty-five years, I have had to meet persons claim-
ing to have from God messages of reproof to others. This phase of
religious fanaticism has sprung up again and again since 1844. Satan
has worked in many ways to establish error. Some things spoken in
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these visions came to pass; but many things—in regard to the time of
Christ’s coming, the end of probation, and the events to take place—
proved utterly false, as your prophesyings and Anna’s have done.
Yet they would try to excuse the blunders by twisting the statements
about, and giving them another meaning, and go on in the same way,
deceiving and being deceived.
When I was first wrought upon by the Spirit of the Lord, I was
shown that I would be brought in contact with those who claimed to
see visions, but that the Lord would not permit me to be deceived. My
work was to unveil this falsehood, and to rebuke it in the name of the
Lord. As the end drew near, I was to see more of these manifestations.
“I Have Not Sent Them”
Letters have come to me from different ones, relating visions that
they said God had given them; but the Lord Jesus tells me, “Believe
them not; I have not sent them.” Some write to me, saying that God
has revealed to them that Sister White is in error, that she is influenced
by the leaders to believe some things that are not true, and to reject
some things that are true. But the word comes again, “Heed them not;