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Appendix Notes
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Heaven Guide” appearing on pages 412 and 413. When the article
is read in its entirety it becomes apparent that Ellen White, in this
statement made just a little more than a year after the Minneapolis
Conference to a group in Battle Creek, was speaking of her own
ministry. Some had grown critical of her work. Note that in the
paragraph preceding that which appears in this volume on page 475,
Ellen White states:
“We should come into a position where every difference will be
melted away. If I think I have light, I shall do my duty in presenting
it. Suppose I consulted others concerning the message the Lord
would have me give to the people, the door might be closed so that
the light might not reach the ones to whom God had sent it. When
Jesus rode into Jerusalem, ‘the whole multitude of the disciples
began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty
works that they had seen; saying, blessed be the King that cometh
in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
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And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto Him,
master, rebuke thy disciples. And He answered and said unto them,
I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would
immediately cry out’ (
Luke 19:37-40
).
“The Jews tried to stop the proclamation of the message that had
been predicted in the word of God.”
Then she makes reference again to her own experience:
“Prophecy must be fulfilled. The Lord says, ‘Behold, I will
send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the Lord’ (
Malachi 4:5
). Somebody is to come in
the spirit and power of elijah, and when he appears, men may say,
‘You are too earnest, you do not interpret the Scriptures in the proper
way.”—
Selected Messages 1:412
.
That she was referring to her own experience is also made clear
from the paragraph which follows, in which she declares:
“I shall tell the truth as God gives it to me....”