Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness
will be filled; for Jesus has promised it. Precious
Saviour! his arms are open to receive us, and his
great heart of love is waiting to bless us.—The
Review and Herald, July 1, 1884.
False Sanctification—1885.—There was a
man, a non-SDA minister by the name of Brown,
perhaps you know him. [Ellen White, speaking to
the members of the Santa Rosa, California, SDA
church, on March 7, 1885, recounted an experience
that took place on shipboard the year before, when
she traveled from Portland, Oregon, to San
Francisco, California.—Compilers.] he claimed to
be holy. “The idea of repentance,” said he, “is not
in the Bible.” “If,” says he, “a man comes to me
and says that he believes in Jesus, I take him right
into the church, whether he is baptized or not; I
have done so with a good many.” “And,” says he,
“I have not committed a sin in six years.”
“There are some on this boat,” says he, “that
believe that we [are] sanctified by [keeping] the
law. There is a woman on this boat, by the name of
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