God’s Last Day Church
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before the delegates at the General Conference Session, Washington,
D.C., May 30, 1909.
]—
Testimonies for the Church 9:257, 258
(1909).
As we near the final crisis, instead of feeling that there is less need
of order and harmony of action, we should be more systematic than
heretofore.—
Selected Messages 3:26
(1892).
The Special Authority of God’s Church
God has invested His church with special authority and power
which no one can be justified in disregarding and despising, for in
so doing he despises the voice of God.—
Testimonies for the Church
3:417
(1875).
God has bestowed the highest power under heaven upon His church.
It is the voice of God in His united people in church capacity which is
[48]
to be respected.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:451
(1875).
A Time of Spiritual Weakness and Blindness
I was confirmed in all I had stated in Minneapolis, that a refor-
mation must go through the churches. Reforms must be made, for
spiritual weakness and blindness were upon the people who had been
blessed with great light and precious opportunities and privileges. As
reformers they had come out of the denominational churches, but they
now act a part similar to that which the churches acted. We hoped
that there would not be the necessity for another coming out. [
This is
the only known statement from the pen of Ellen White indicating that
she might have lost confidence in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
organization. The doubt which she expressed here was never repeated
during the remaining twenty-six years of her life.
] While we will en-
deavor to keep the “unity of the Spirit” in the bonds of peace, we will
not with pen or voice cease to protest against bigotry.—EGW’88 356,
357 (1889).
Of those who boast of their light and yet fail to walk in it Christ
says, “But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the day of judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum [Seventh-
day Adventists, who have had great light], which art exalted unto
heaven [in point of privilege], shalt be brought down to hell: for if the
mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom,