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Introduction
A Call to Stand Apart
is a first. It is the first Ellen White book pre-
pared by the White Estate especially for twenty-first-century young
adults. It also is the first book in which a variety of inspired coun-
sels have been drawn together from various previously published
Ellen White sources and the language adapted to reach contemporary
youth.
A Call to Stand Apart
makes available from selected Ellen White
writings the core ideas that deal with important issues faced by
youth and young adults today. To help communicate successfully
with the potentially large audience of youthful readers, sentences and
paragraphs have been condensed and language has been modernized.
But every effort has been made to be faithful to the content, ideas,
and principles set forth by Ellen White. In no case has the thought
in the original been changed.
The 17 chapters of the book have been chosen to address issues
faced by contemporary young adults in a twenty-first-century con-
text. Each chapter is prefaced by the testimony of a young adult
who has found in Ellen White’s books the inspiration that he or she
would like to have others share.
We believe that the principles penned more than 100 years ago
under divine inspiration are more relevant than ever. It is our hope
that thousands of readers will find
A Call to Stand Apart
so com-
pelling, interesting, and inspiring that they will go on to explore the
deep spiritual riches found in Ellen White’s standard writings. May
each reader “catch the vision.”
The Trustees of the Ellen G. White Publications
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