What Is "the 1888 Message" & Why Is 1888 So Important? - 1888 Message Study Committee

hearts were moved, but their heads were
bewildered by this stream of antagonism from the
highest offices in Battle Creek. In 1891, contrary to
the Lord’s leading (says Ellen White), she was
“exiled” toAustralia on a “missionary” assignment.
True, for nearly a decade God richly blessed her
missionary work there, but the movement
promoting the latter rain and the loud cry at home
was severely curtailed.
Waggoner found himself shipped off to
England the next year, when both he and Jones
needed the constant close personal fellowship and
counsel that only Ellen White could give them. It
was such a crisis as the church had never before
faced.
The End Result
Nearly a decade after the all-important
Minneapolis Conference Ellen White was forced to
declare: “By exciting that opposition Satan
succeeded in shutting away from our people, in a
great measure, the special power of the Holy Spirit
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