our Saviour, to open the word to his servants, to illuminate and apply its
            
            
              teachings” (
            
            
              The Great Controversy, vii
            
            
              ).
            
            
              This devotional book consists of choice selections from the writings of
            
            
              this remarkable woman who, meeting all the tests of a true prophet as set
            
            
              forth in the Holy Scriptures, helped found the Seventh-day Adventist Church
            
            
              .