p. 224 | EXPERIENCE AND VIEWS by James White

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

EXPERIENCE AND VIEWS.

By James White

Last week we called for copies of the pamphlet entitled, “A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Mrs. E. G. White,” printed at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1851. As we had decided to reproduce the book, with a sketch of the writer’s parentage, early life, Christian experience, views, and extensive labors, in connection with a full explanation of her peculiar and wonderful experience, and the relation she sustains to our people, answering common objections to her views, making a volume of three or four hundred pages, we wished several copies to cut in the preparation of the work.

We wish here to state that we have found a sufficient number of copies in this city, and the work is progressing finely. The subject has occupied our Sabbath afternoon service for several weeks. Questions are presented in writing, which are patiently considered, and the objections raised are thoroughly answered. The result seems to be good. We earnestly invite all who read this, who may have difficulties in their minds relative to the peculiar work of Mrs. White, or objections to her views, whether they are in print or otherwise, to forward statements of such difficulties and objections to this Office, at their earliest convenience.

We regard the afore-mentioned pamphlet as one of great value. It has not been reprinted, from the fact that time was necessary for the fulfillment of the important statements it contains. And it was also necessary that the pulpit gentlemen who have distinguished themselves in endeavoring to arrest the influence of a humble, uneducated Christian woman, should have time to fully manifest the spirit of the dragon, in giving publicity from the pulpit and through the religious press, to the grossest misrepresentations and false statements relative to Mrs. W. and her work.

The time has now come for the pamphlet to be reproduced, and the writer of it and her work to appear before the reading public in the light of the real facts in the case. Since the time Mrs. W. wrote this little work, she has, in the providence of God, been gradually called out, step by step, until at the present time she stands in the front rank of our speakers, frequently addressing the largest religious assemblies, holding, as none of our other speakers can, from five to twenty thousand, for a period of eighty minutes. The public have a right to demand full statements of the facts in the case, and the relation Mrs. W. sustains to an active, growing people whose influence is extending everywhere. This fact also calls for just such a work as we are now putting through the press.

J. W.