Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

covered so many lines that I can not call myself
other than a messenger, sent to bear a message
from the Lord to his people, and to take up work in
any line that he points out.
When I was last in Battle Creek, I said before a
large congregation that I did not claim to be a
prophetess. Twice I referred to this matter,
intending each time to make the statement, "I do
not claim to be a prophetess." If I spoke otherwise
then this, let all now understand that what I had in
mind to say was that I do not claim the title of
prophet or prophetess.
I understand that some were anxious to know if
Mrs. White still held the same views as she did
years ago when they had heard her speak in the
Sanitarium grove, in the Tabernacle, and at the
campmeetings held in the suburbs of Battle Creek.
I assured them that the message she bears today is
the same that she has borne during the sixty years
of her public ministry. She has the same service to
do for the Master that was laid upon her in her
girlhood. She receives lessons from the same
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