Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

to the world in a manifold and exaggerated light
the imperfection and inaccuracies of some of our
expositions which have been corrected by the
results of faithful study in later years.
It seems to me, Brother Eastman, that there is
great possibility of our weakening our influence by
closing our eyes to the fact that we are all as little
children learning from day to day from the great
Teacher, and that it is our privilege to advance in
knowledge and understanding. It seems to me that
it is much wiser for us to convince the world that
God has been leading us, and that He is leading us
by presenting from time to time, unanswerable
evidences regarding the soundness of our position
by a clear presentation of the correspondence of
prophecy and history through the use of historical
data which the world cannot question, than by any
efforts that we shall make to prove that the
positions we held last year or ten years ago or
twenty years ago or thirty years ago were infallible
and unchangeable.
Regarding Mother’s writings, I have
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