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in living characters His holy life and his Godly example, and with
irresistible appeals they urge us to follow in His steps.
“3. They lead us to the Bible. They set forth that book as the
inspired and unalterable word of God. They exhort us to take that
word as the man of our counsel, and the rule of our faith and practice.
And, with a compelling power, they entreat us to study long and
diligently its pages, and become familiar with its teachings, for it is to
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judge us in the last day.
“4. They have brought comfort and consolation to many hearts.
They have strengthened the weak, encouraged the feeble, raised up the
despondent. They have brought order out of confusion, made crooked
places straight, and thrown light on what was dark and obscure. And
no person with an unprejudiced mind can read their stirring appeals
for a pure and lofty morality, their exaltation of God and the Saviour,
their denunciations of every evil, and their exhortations to everything
that is holy and of good report, without being compelled to say, ‘these
are not the words of him that hath a devil.’”
Value of Her Work
After full seventy years of active labor in many lands, in writing
and preaching, Mrs. White quietly fell asleep in Jesus at her home
near St. Helena, California, July 16, 1915. She was buried beside her
husband in Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 24. In
the funeral sermon, Elder A. G. Daniells, president of the General
Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, said regarding her life work:
“Perhaps we are not wise enough to say definitely just what part
of Mrs. White’s life work has been of the greatest value to the world,
but it would seem that the large volume of deeply religious literature
she has left would prove to be of the greatest service to mankind. Her
books number upwards of twenty volumes. Some of these have been
translated into many languages in different parts of the world. They
have now reached a circulation of more than two million copies, and
are still going to the public by thousands.
“As we survey the whole field of gospel truth,—of man’s relation
to his Lord and to his fellow men,—it must be seen that Mrs. White’s
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life work has given these great fundamentals positive, constructive