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

Now unless the Lord bids me, I shall not
address the church here in Battle Creek until Elder
Smith and those who have been in harmony with
him show their colors. I set no stakes in this but I
will know that the Lord bids me before I get the
burden on my soul for the ones for whom I have
labored so hard without the least acknowledgment
or response or retraction on their part. I have had to
vindicate myself and my brethren, press with all
my powers against the prejudice, unbelief, false
statements and misrepresentations until it almost
gives me a nervous chill to think of the blindness
and unreasonable Phariseeism that has been
adjusted as a garment about men in prominent
positions. If they have changed their course of
criticism and scattering the seeds of doubt and
unsettling the confidence of the churches in the
testimonies, I ask, who is the wiser for it? What
confession and restitution and restoring of
confidence have they done? Will the past be
blotted out of the books of heaven where they are
registered without one humiliation on their part for
wounding and bruising the souls of God's people
by their jealousies, evil surmisings and opposition