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light given me of God,” she wrote at another time, “that corrected our
error, and enabled us to see the true position.” (
Selected Messages
1:74, 63
.)
Pages 43, 44, and 86:
Mysterious Knockings in New York, and
Rochester Knockings
.—Reference is here made to incidents relat-
ing to the beginnings of modern spiritualism. In 1848 mysterious
rappings were heard in the home of the Fox family at Hydesville,
a community about thirty-five miles east of the city of Rochester,
New York. At a time when there were various conjectures as to the
cause of the rappings, Ellen White announced, on the authority of
the vision given to her, that they were a manifestation of spiritualism,
that this phenomenon would develop rapidly, and in the name of
religion would gain popularity and deceive multitudes, developing
into Satan’s last-day masterpiece of deception
.
Page 50:
Messengers without a Message
.—This expression ap-
pears in an account of a view given to Ellen White on January 26,
1850. At this time the Sabbathkeeping Adventists had no church
organization. Nearly all were fearful that any type of organization
would bring in formality among the believers. But as time went on,
discordant elements began to make their way into the ranks. Mes-
sages of warning came from Ellen White, and the Sabbathkeeping
Adventists were led step by step to adopt the forms of church orga-
nization. As a result the companies of believers were knit together
more closely than before; a way was devised to give recognition
to ministers who gave evidence that they could preach the message
and support it with their lives; and provision was made to cast out
those who, under the pretext of presenting truth, taught error. See
“Historical Prologue.”
Pages 61, 62:
Unity of the Shepherds
.—See note for page 50,
Messengers without a Message
.
Page 75:
Duty to go to Old Jerusalem
.—Mrs. White refers to
erroneous views then held by a very few. The next year, in the
The Review and Herald, October 7, 1851
, James White writes of
“the distracting, unprofitable views relative to old Jerusalem and the
Jews, etc., that are afloat at the present time,” and of “the strange
notions that some have run into, that the saints have yet to go to old
Jerusalem. Etc., etc.”
Page 77:
Editor of the
Day-Star.—Enoch Jacobs lived in Cincin-
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