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

excusable. He had been acquainted with me and the
character of my mission from his youth up, and he
had seen my work, and it had been tested and
proved by him for years; and that there should
suddenly come a period of time when without any
reason except the imagination of his own darkened,
perverted understanding, he should so deliberately
and coolly treat the Testimonies in a manner to
make them of no effect, was a marvel to me.
I had reason to expect my brethren would act
like sensible men, weigh evidence, give credence
to evidence, and not turn aside from light and facts
of truth and give credence to tidbits of hearsay and
suppositions; wonderfully cautious in regard to
matters of testimony which they had not any reason
to question, and open mind and heart to greedily
accept and publish to others the mere words born
of prejudice and envy and jealousy.
I said to them that Brother Smith ought to have
been the man to be standing and saying the very
things I was saying, because they were truth, equity
and judgment. He had not a particle of reason or