Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

your case in your past experience. And when I
enter a family and see a course pursued that God
has reproved and condemned, I am in grief and
distress, whether the special sins have been shown
me or the sins of another who has neglected similar
duties. I know whereof I speak, I feel deeply over
the matter. I say, then, for Christ’s sake make haste
to come on the right ground, and harness up for the
battle.—Letter 52, 1886.
Testimony Counsel Based on Many
Visions.—God has given me a testimony of
reproof for parents who treat their children as you
do your little one.—Letter 1, 1877.
This matter has been brought before my mind
in other cases where individuals have claimed to
have messages for the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, of a similar character, and the word has
been given me, “Believe them not.”—Letter 16,
1893. (Quoted in Selected Messages 2:63, 64.)
Bearing Testimony Unexpectedly.—Sabbath
morning early, I went into meeting and the Lord
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