Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

a friend a few months after the 1901 Session:
The result of the last General Conference
[1901] has been the greatest, the most terrible
sorrow of my life. No change was made. The spirit
that should have been brought into the whole work
as the result of the meeting, was not brought in
because men did not receive the testimonies of the
Spirit of God. As they went to their several fields
of labor, they did not walk in the light that the Lord
had flashed upon their pathway, but carried into
their work the wrong principles that have been
prevailing in the work at Battle Creek (Ellen White
letter to Judge Jesse Arthur, Elmshaven, January
14, 1903).
In consequence of this impenitence, the
finishing of God's work was delayed an indefinite
time:
We may have to remain here in this world
because of insubordination many more years, as
did the children of Israel; but for Christ's sake His
people should not add sin to sin by charging God
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