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pleted in 1903; “Testimonies for the Church,” Volume 8, in 1904; and
“Ministry of Healing” in 1905. Many “Special Testimonies” were
prepared for circulation in pamphlet and leaflet form; and in 1909
“Testimonies for the Church,” Volume 9, the last of the series, was
published. By the close of 1910 Mrs. White had given full consider-
ation to all the problems connected with the reset edition of “Great
Controversy.” That task having been completed, she found time to
supervise the revision of “Sketches from the Life of Paul,” and to add
several chapters on the life work and the writings of the apostles of
the early Christian church. This matter was published in 1911, under
the title, “The Acts of the Apostles.” The next volume to appear was
“Counsels to Teachers, Parents, and Students Regarding Christian Ed-
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ucation,” in 1913; and immediately afterward Mrs. White began the
reading of manuscripts that were forwarded to the printers in 1914 for
the new edition of “Gospel Workers.”
When publishing “Facts of Faith,” in 1864, Mrs. White included
in that little volume matter that carried the story of Israel beyond the
days of David. In the seventies she wrote quite fully on the restoration
of the Israelites from Babylon, dwelling in detail on the experiences of
Nehemiah. In articles, and in the bound volumes of “Testimonies for
the Church,” she often told and retold the story of Solomon, of Elijah
and Elisha, of Isaiah and Jeremiah, of Daniel and the Hebrew worthies,
and of the return of the exiles under Zerubbabel and Joshua and Ezra.
“Facts of Faith” has long been out of print, the matter contained
therein having been largely incorporated, with many additions, in the
later volume, “Spirit of Prophecy,” Volume 1 (1870), and finally in
“Patriarchs and Prophets” (1890). When “Patriarchs” was completed,
Mrs. White hoped soon to go on with the story from the close of
David’s reign, and publish in connected form that which she had
been enabled to write through the years concerning the experiences of
Solomon and divided Israel, and their final restoration to divine favor
as one united people,—a type of spiritual Israel, the church of God on
earth today, to whom will finally be fulfilled all the covenant promises.
It was the hope of preparing, in some form suitable for publication,
this story of the prophets and kings of Old Testament history, that led
to the grouping of such material into several series of articles, which
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have been published in the columns of the Review, the Signs, and the
Watchman.