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Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 13<br />

The Testimonies for the<br />

Church<br />

1855 Vision Published in First Testimony.<br />

[The publication of the November 20, 1855, vision<br />

and the May 27, 1856, vision in 16-page pamphlets<br />

titled “Testimony for the Church,” was initiated by<br />

eyewitnesses in the Battle Creek church, as noted<br />

in each pamphlet: “We the undersigned, being<br />

eyewitnesses when the above vision was given,<br />

deem it highly necessary that it should be<br />

published, for the benefit of the church, on account<br />

of the important truths and warnings which it<br />

contains. Signed: Jos. Bates, J. H. Waggoner, G.<br />

W. Amadon, M.E. Cornell, J. Hart, Uriah<br />

Smith.”—Testimony for the Church No. 1, 1855],<br />

p. 8.<br />

To the saints scattered abroad.—The<br />

foregoing testimony was given in the presence of<br />

about one hundred brethren and sisters assembled<br />

155

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