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canvassers from handling it. All that I could say was as water spilt
upon a rock. Thus saith the Lord, I will judge for this false, dishonest
work.—
Letter 39, 1899
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Satan Delayed Publishing Great Controversy—I mourn now that
I did not do the very work I ought to have done when E and H were
in responsible positions and had not an appreciation of The Great
Controversy, volume 4, which the people should have had then as
they are having now.... The delay was Satan’s own devising. He was
working diligently and has brought about a condition of things that the
work cannot now go as it would have gone and done its work, which
the Lord presented before me needed to be done. Those who hindered
the work will have to answer to God for this.—
Letter 55, 1894
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Bible Readings Different From The Great Controversy—I do
not demerit Bible Readings. It is a book which will do a great amount
of good, but it can never take the place that the Lord designed that
volume 4 [The Great Controversy] should have in the world and among
our people. I have spread before them the light given me of heaven in
that book....
If Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation does not receive the sale it
should, if Bible Readings is carried to the neglect of other publications
highly essential for the people to have, that neglect will not excuse
the matter of why volume 4 should not be pushed and its circulation
be tenfold what it has been the present year. It is a duty we owe to
our people and to God to send every ray of light given me of God,
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demanded for this time to every tongue and nation.—
Letter 25a, 1889
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Converting Power in Ellen G. White Books—Several precious
experiences were related by the canvassers in regard to the way in
which they had searched their hearts while canvassing for Great Con-
troversy and Patriarchs and Prophets. They said that as they read
these books their minds were enlightened, and they felt that angels
of God were very near.... The canvassers stated that they had found
that where these books had been sold, everyone spoke highly of them,
and that from reading them, some had embraced the truth who had
never heard a discourse in their lives given by a Seventh-day Adventist
minister.—
Manuscript 23, 1890
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Four Special Books—Daniel and Revelation, Great Controversy,
Patriarchs and Prophets, and Desire of Ages should now go to the
world. The grand instruction contained in Daniel and Revelation has