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Testimony for the Battle Creek Church 1882 (b)

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Testimony for the Battle Creek Church 1882 (b)

Ellen G. White

Pacific Press Publishing House · Oakland, Cal. · 1882

TO THE READER.

The following pages contain instruction, warning, and admonition of special importance to the Battle Creek church at the present crisis. It has been said by some, “If Sr. White had a knowledge of the troubles that were coming, why did she not give us warning?” I answer, Repeated warnings have been given. See the article “Our College,” which was read before our leading men at the General Conference early in December, 1881. See also “Extracts from Previous Testimonies,” read before leading members of the church one year ago. Read, as specially relating to affairs at Battle Creek, the articles entitled, “Camp-meeting Address,” and “Parental Training,” in the forthcoming Testimony, No. 31.
Notice with what care have been presented the principles of brotherly love, mutual forbearance, respect and tenderness for those who have labored long and faithfully in the cause. Mark the warnings against conformity to the world, against parental indulgence, against tale-bearing, bitterness, and strife among brethren. These warnings strike at the very root of the present troubles. Had the warnings and admonitions given to the church been heeded, a different state of things would now exist. The disaster to God’s cause, the loss of souls, the hindrances to the work, the scoffing of our enemies,—all these would not have been.

SPECIAL TESTIMONY

TO THE

BATTLE CREEK CHURCH.

Continue reading: Read in the Tabernacle, Nov. 30, 1882.