Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

given of God. If you have had, since that message
was given, a new sense of what constitutes sin, if
you have become truly converted, a child of God in
place of being a transgressor of his law, then there
is no one who will be more pleased than myself.—
Letter 95, 1893.
Truthfulness of Testimonies Publicly
Acknowledged.—I spoke to the people [in
Bloomfield, California] in the forenoon in regard to
the necessity of having the defects in their
characters removed, that they may stand before the
Son of God blameless when he shall appear. There
was deep feeling in the meeting. I addressed
several personally, pointing out the wrongs I had
been shown in their cases. They all responded and
many with weeping confessed their sins and the
truthfulness of the testimony.—Letter 7, 1873.
Interpreted in Light of Preconceived
Positions.—There are many who interpret that
which I write in the light of their own preconceived
opinions. You know what this means. A division in
understanding and diverse opinions is the sure
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