The Later Elmshaven Years: 1905-1915 (vol. 6) - Ellen G. White

As the work progressed, Mother would frequently give us instruction
regarding points of importance and which she knew she had written and
which she wished us to take special pains to search for in her writings.
Sometimes this instruction was given to those who brought her the
manuscripts in her room, and oftentimes after reading a few chapters or early
in the forenoon after some important feature had been impressed upon her
mind in night visions, she would come over to the office and talk the matter
over with Brother Crisler.
One day when she was talking with him and me together, she said,
"This book will be read by heathen in America and in other lands. Take pains
to search out that which I have written regarding the work and teachings of
St. Paul that will appeal to the heathen."
At another time she said, "This book will be read by the Jews. Take
pains to use what I have written that will appeal to the Jews, and also that
will appeal to our people as encouragement to work for the Jews."
And thus from time to time, she called our attention to the objects and
aims that must be remembered in gathering from her writings that which
would be most useful.--December 8, 1911.
Compared with Sketches from the Life of Paul
Clarence Crisler occasionally referred to the former book, Sketches
From the Life of Paul, in selecting materials for The Acts of the Apostles.
There had been some talk a few years earlier, particularly in and around
Battle Creek, that Ellen White, in the preparation of her book, had
plagiarized somewhat from The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. This was a
book that had been jointly authored by British clergymen W. J. Conybeare
and J. S. Howson and that several publishers in the United States had issued
without copyright. While Ellen White had used some of the phraseology of
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