The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

upon various things--books and writers and the
present condition of things. He thought it would be
best to have a second meeting, and deplored that
these meetings of explanation could not have been
held long ago. The same has been stated by others;
but I explained that the state of their impressions
and feelings was of such a character that we could
not reach them, for they had ears, but they were
dull of hearing; hearts had they, but they were hard
and unimpressible.
We had our meeting. Brother Jones talked very
plainly, yet tenderly in regard to their crediting
hearsay and not, in brotherly love, taking the
matter to the one talked about and asking him if the
report were true.
Willie, I talked as they had never heard me talk
before. I went over again the transactions at
Minneapolis and since that time, and I addressed
plain remarks to Elder Smith. I told him that it was
not so surprising that my brethren who had known
but little of the work the Lord had given me to do,
should have temptations, but Elder Smith was not