It was then I decided that nothing more should go from my pen until the converting
power of God was seen in the church. But the Lord placed the burden upon my
soul. I labored for you earnestly. How much this cost both my husband and myself,
eternity will tell. Have I not a knowledge of the state of the church, when the Lord
has presented their case before me again and again for years? Repeated warnings
have been given, yet there has been no decided change
“Yet now when I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you
declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the
Spirit of God. You know how the Lord has manifested Himself through the Spirit
of prophecy. Past, present, and future have passed before me. I have been shown
faces that I had never seen, and years afterward I knew them when I saw them. I have
been aroused from my sleep with a vivid sense of subjects previously presented to
my mind and I have written, at midnight, letters that have gone across the continent,
and arriving at a crisis, have saved great disaster to the cause of God. This has been
my work for many years. A power has impelled me to reprove and rebuke wrongs
that I had not thought of. Is this work of the last thirty-six years from above or from
beneath? ...
“When I went to Colorado I was so burdened for you that, in my weakness, I wrote
many pages to be read at your camp meeting. Weak and trembling, I arose at three
o’clock in the morning to write to you. God was speaking through clay. You might
say that this communication was only a letter. Yes, it was a letter, but prompted by
the Spirit of God, to bring before your minds things that had been shown me. In these
letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the
Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper, expressing merely
my own ideas. They are what God has opene