Unfounded Reports
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another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end
He may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even
our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.”
“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul
shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back
unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”
Here we have the Bible election plainly stated. Here are specified
who shall be crowned in the city of God and who shall have no part
with the just. “Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they
may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city.”
The third report states that, in the Conference at Minneapolis,
“Sister White confessed that in some of her remarks at that meeting
she had been in error and had manifested a wrong spirit.” This report
also is wholly without foundation. I could not forbear giving to the
Conference the light that God had given me. This I presented both
in messages of warning and reproof and in words of hope and faith.
But nothing spoken by me at that meeting has been taken back or
confessed to be wrong. I still view matters from the same standpoint,
and am of the same mind, as when at Minneapolis. All the dangers
which I then saw, and which brought such a burden upon me, have
been more clearly developed since that meeting. As I become more
fully acquainted with the condition of our churches I see that every
warning given at Minneapolis was needed.
The influence of this report from Minneapolis, tended to destroy
confidence in all reproofs and warnings given by me to the people.
One example of this I will here relate.
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A sister connected with one of our missions had been reproved for
her wrong influence over the young people with whom she was asso-
ciated. She had encouraged a spirit of lightness, trifling, and frivolity,
which grieved away the Spirit of God and which was demoralizing
to the workers. When the report came by letter from Minneapolis
concerning Sister White’s wrong course which called for a confession
there, the relatives of Sister T at once remarked: “Well, if Sister White
was wrong in regard to matters in the Conference at Minneapolis, and
had to confess this, she may have made a mistake as to the message she
gave my sister and may have to confess that also.” And they justified
the wrongdoer in her course. Since that time, however, Sister T has