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

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of spirit.<br />

As a people we are certainly in great danger, if<br />

we are not constantly guarded, of considering our<br />

ideas, because long cherished, to be Bible doctrines<br />

and on every point infallible, and measuring<br />

everyone by the rule of our interpretation of Bible<br />

truth. This is our danger, and this would be the<br />

greatest evil that could ever come to us as a people.<br />

While I was in Europe I felt deeply moved by the<br />

Spirit of God, as I never did before, that there must<br />

be altogether a different spirit and element brought<br />

into our conferences. If one should hold ideas<br />

differing in some respects from that which we have<br />

heretofore entertained--not on vital points of truththere<br />

should not be a firm, rigid attitude assumed<br />

that all is right in every particular, all is Bible truth<br />

without a flaw, that every point we have held is<br />

without mistake or cannot be improved. This I<br />

know to be dangerous business and it proceeds<br />

from that wisdom that is from beneath.<br />

<strong>The</strong> very same course was taken by the<br />

denominational churches when we embraced the

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