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The Publishing Ministry
E.G. White Books Live On—The question is sometimes raised,
“What if Mrs. White should die?” I answer: “The books that she
has written will not die. They are a living witness to what saith the
Scriptures.”—
Letter 55, 1905
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My time is fully employed in the preparation of Ministry of Healing
and some matter pertaining to the Southern field that is to be published
in the next volume of the Testimonies. I hope that when these books
come out, some of the burden I now feel can be laid aside, because of
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the knowledge that the light that God has given me is placed where
the people can receive it. Oh, if the truths that are taught in the
Ministry of Healing shall be effective, a genuine religious interest will
be manifested in the sick and suffering in our sanitariums. Though my
life may be ended, these books will live and teach the truth. [
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beside her chair, on a table, were kept several of the books she had
written. These she would often handle and look over, seeming to
delight in having them near. Like an affectionate mother with her
children, so was she with these books during her last sickness. Several
times, when visited, she was found holding two or three of them in her
lap. “I appreciate these books as I never did before,” she at one time
remarked. “They are truth, and they are righteousness, and they are
an everlasting testimony that God is true.” She rejoiced in the thought
that when she could no longer speak to the people, her books would
speak for her.—
Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 445, 446
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Letter
85, 1905
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Truth Immortalized in Spirit of Prophecy Books—I am “only
waiting till the shadows are a little longer grown.” But my books will
testify when my voice shall no longer be heard. The truths committed
to me, as the Lord’s messenger, stand immortalized, either to convict
and to convert souls, or to condemn those who have departed from the
faith and have given heed to seducing spirits.—
Letter 350, 1906
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Misuse and Abuse of the Spirit of Prophecy—Soon every pos-
sible effort will be made to discount and pervert the truth of the testi-
monies of God’s Spirit. We must have in readiness the clear, straight
messages that since 1846 have been coming to God’s people. There
will be those once united with us in the faith who will search for new,
strange doctrines, for something odd and sensational to present to the
people. They will bring in all conceivable fallacies, and will present
them as coming from Mrs. White, that they may beguile souls. The