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and giving it no place. Some things stated in these revelations were
fulfilled, and this led some to accept them as genuine....
God has not called Anna Phillips to follow on after the testimonies
He has given to His people, and repeat their purport. But such her
work is and has been. Persons did exactly the same thing in the first
experience in this cause. We had every phase of these false revelations
to meet.
How is it, my brother, that you have taken up these communica-
tions, and presented them before the people, weaving them in with
the testimonies God has given Sister White? Where is your evidence
that these are of God? You cannot be too careful how you hear, how
you receive, how you believe. You cannot be too careful how you
talk of the gift of prophesying, and state that I have said this and that
in reference to this matter. Such statements, I well know, encourage
men and women and children to imagine that they have special light in
revelations from God, when they have not received such light. This, I
have been shown, would be one of Satan’s masterpieces of deception.
You are giving to the work a mold which it will take precious time and
wearing soul labor to correct, to save the cause of God from another
spasm of fanaticism....
Much Good and Just a Little Seed of Error
Do you not think I know something about these matters? All along
our pathway to the heavenly Canaan we see many souls that have
made shipwreck of faith, and in their false movements have led others
astray through the supposition that they were led of God in special
revelations. I have had to write many, many pages to correct these
errors. I have been burdened and oppressed night after night, unable to
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sleep because of the agony of my soul for God’s heritage, His people,
who are in danger of being misled. Many things in these visions and
dreams seem to be all straight, a repetition of that which has been in
the field for many years; but soon they introduce a jot here, a tittle of
error there, just a little seed which takes root and flourishes, and many
are defiled therewith.
Oh, I wish that we had far greater wisdom in all things than we now
have! One thing every worker in the vineyard of the Lord must learn,
that is, to practice the prayer of Christ, to move as one in Christ Jesus.