EGW Books
〉 Selected Messages Book 3
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   A Word to the Reader ( 9 )
Section 1—The Church ( 13 )
   Introduction ( 14 )
   Chapter 1—What Is the Church? ( 15 )
     God Has an Organized Body ( 17 )
   Chapter 2—Unity in the Church ( 20 )
     Present a United Front ( 20 )
     Unity Our Creed ( 21 )
     Not to Draw Apart ( 21 )
     What Heaven Ratifies ( 22 )
   Chapter 3—Independent Action ( 23 )
     Departing From the Faith ( 23 )
     Strength From Concerted Action ( 23 )
     Counsel Together—Compare Plans ( 24 )
     Practice in the Early Days ( 25 )
     Independence a Delusion of Satan ( 25 )
     Thorough Organization Essential ( 26 )
Section 2—Principles of Inspiration ( 28 )
   Introduction ( 28 )
   Chapter 4—The Primacy of the Word ( 29 )
   Chapter 5—Experiences in Receiving the Visions ( 34 )
   Chapter 6—Glimpses of How the Light Came to Ellen White ( 40 )
   Chapter 7—Presenting the Divinely Revealed Message ( 48 )
   Chapter 8—The Question of Influence ( 62 )
   Chapter 9—Defining Sister White’s Judgment and the Word of the Lord ( 68 )
     Sister White’s Opinion? ( 68 )
   Chapter 10—On Being an Inspired Messenger ( 71 )
     After Ellen White’s Death ( 76 )
   Chapter 11—The Reception of the Messages ( 78 )
     Two Typical Examples ( 84 )
Section 3—The Preparation of the Ellen G. White Books ( 88 )
   Introduction ( 88 )
   Chapter 12—Literary Assistants in Work of Ellen G. White ( 89 )
     The Work of Marian Davis ( 91 )
   Chapter 13—The Testimonies for the Church ( 94 )
     Ellen G. White Desired Language Correctly Used ( 97 )
     Letters to Help Others ( 98 )
   Chapter 14—Initial Steps in Writing and Publishing The Great Controversy Story ( 99 )
     The 1858 Great Controversy Vision ( 99 )
     Spiritual Gifts, Volumes III and IV ( 100 )
   Chapter 15—A Running Account of Ellen G. White’s Experience in Writing on the Life of Christ in 1876 ( 103 )
   Chapter 16—Expanding the Great Controversy Presentation ( 109 )
     The 1888 Edition of The Great Controversy ( 111 )
   Chapter 17—The Experience of E. G. White in Preparing The Desire of Ages ( 115 )
     Notations From Letters and Diaries ( 115 )
     Meeting Criticisms of The Desire of Ages ( 119 )
   Chapter 18—Comments While at Work on the Conflict Series Books ( 121 )
     The Result of Visions Spanning Her Lifetime ( 121 )
     Constructive Criticisms Appreciated (1885) ( 121 )
     Books Sought Giving Order of Events ( 122 )
     Holy Spirit Traced Truths on Ellen White’s Heart ( 122 )
     The 1911 Revision of The Great Controversy ( 123 )
Section 4—The Incarnation ( 126 )
   Introduction ( 126 )
   Chapter 19—The Incarnation ( 127 )
     The Completeness of Christ’s Humanity ( 127 )
     Christ Descended to the Level of Fallen Humanity ( 128 )
     Was Christ Capable of Yielding to Temptation? ( 129 )
     God Sent a Sinless Being to This World ( 132 )
     Man Created With Sinless Moral Nature ( 133 )
     Sickness of Others Carried Vicariously ( 133 )
     Christ’s Sinlessness Disturbed Satan ( 133 )
     Our Fallen Human Nature Connected With Christ’s Divinity ( 134 )
     Tempted as Children Today Are ( 134 )
     What the Incarnation Accomplishes ( 134 )
     Satan Declared That Man Could Not Keep God’s Law ( 136 )
     Real Meaning of the Incarnation ( 141 )
Section 5—Principles of Salvation ( 143 )
   Introduction ( 144 )
   Chapter 20—Principles as Set Forth by Ellen White in Her Early Ministry ( 145 )
     Basic Elements Presented at the 1883 General Conference ( 148 )
   Chapter 21—Ellen G. White Reports on the Minneapolis Conference ( 156 )
     A Statement Presenting the Historical Backgrounds ( 156 )
     Precious Promises Versus Gloomy Pictures ( 163 )
     Ellen White’s Appraisal on the Closing Day ( 177 )
     Two Excerpts From Minneapolis Sermons ( 179 )
     Three Months After Minneapolis ( 180 )
     The Reception in the Field of the Message of Righteousness by Faith ( 180 )
     Need for a Proper Concept of Righteousness by Faith ( 183 )
   Chapter 22—Emphasis on Salvation Theme—1890-1908 ( 190 )
Section 6—Education—The Church School, and Universities of the World ( 206 )
   Introduction ( 206 )
   Chapter 23—Appeal for a Church School ( 209 )
   Chapter 24—Counsel Regarding Age of School Entrance ( 214 )
     Report of Interview ( 214 )
     The Kindergarten at Battle Creek ( 218 )
     Light Given on “These Things” ( 218 )
     The Kind of Education the Children Need ( 220 )
     Setting a Pattern ( 222 )
     The Question of Kindergarten ( 223 )
     Could the School Constitute a Disservice? ( 224 )
     A School That Makes a Favorable Impression ( 225 )
   Chapter 25—General Guiding Principles ( 227 )
     In Every Place Where There Is a Church ( 227 )
     Not the Maxims of Men, but God’s Word ( 227 )
     No Stereotyped Plan in Education ( 227 )
     A Definition of True Education ( 228 )
     Commendable Qualities of the Swiss Schools ( 228 )
   Chapter 26—Attending Colleges and Universities of the Land ( 231 )
     The Perils of Listening to the World’s Great Men ( 232 )
     Seventh-day Adventist Students ( 233 )
     Dropping Seeds of Truth Into Minds and Hearts ( 234 )
Section 7—Standards ( 235 )
   Introduction ( 236 )
   Chapter 27—The Grace of Courtesy ( 237 )
   Chapter 28—Dress and Adornment ( 241 )
     Blessings of Proper Attire ( 241 )
     Sound Guiding Principles ( 242 )
     Independence and the Courage to Be Right ( 242 )
     Refining the Tastes ( 243 )
     Simplicity in Dress ( 243 )
     Where Are We Drifting? ( 246 )
     “Self, Self, Self, Must Be Served” ( 248 )
     The Clothes Seventh-day Adventist Ministers Wear ( 249 )
     On Making the Dress Question a Test ( 252 )
   Chapter 29—The Sabbath: Guiding Principles in Sabbath Obervance ( 256 )
     A Few Sabbaths With the White Family ( 261 )
   Chapter 30—The Propriety of Varying Postures in Prayer ( 266 )
     Need Not Always Kneel ( 266 )
Section 8—The Health Reform ( 271 )
   Introduction ( 272 )
   Chapter 31—Visions That Early Called for Reforms ( 273 )
     Attention Called to Tobacco, Tea, and Coffee in 1848 and 1851 ( 273 )
     Important Principles Revealed in 1854 ( 273 )
   Chapter 32—The 1863 Health Reform Vision ( 276 )
     Pointed Questions Answered ( 276 )
     How the Dress Reform Was Revealed ( 277 )
     Relation of the Vision to Writing and Practice ( 278 )
     Health Writings on June 6, the Day of the Vision ( 279 )
     A Review in 1867 of the Writing on Health Reform ( 280 )
     Written Independent of Books or Opinions of Others ( 282 )
   Chapter 33—Proper Use of the Testimonies on Health Reform ( 283 )
     Guard Against Extremes ( 284 )
     Need of Moderation and Caution ( 285 )
     Danger of Families Shown to Ellen White ( 286 )
     Butter, Meat, and Cheese ( 287 )
     Tea, Coffee, Tobacco, and Alcohol ( 287 )
     A Work Which Discredits Health Reform ( 288 )
   Chapter 34—Spiritual and Physical Hazards of Indulged Appetite ( 289 )
     Changes Because of Use of Flesh Food ( 289 )
     Taste in Judgment Corrupted ( 289 )
     Spiritual Health Sacrificed ( 290 )
     Religious and Physical Life Related ( 290 )
     The Peril of Willing Ignorance ( 291 )
     To Whom Do We Belong? ( 291 )
     Hindrances to Mental Improvement and Soul Sanctification ( 291 )
   Chapter 35—Teaching Health Reform in the Family ( 293 )
     Consistency of Parents With Children at the Dining Table ( 293 )
     Urging Children to Overeat ( 294 )
     Establish No One Rule ( 294 )
   Chapter 36—Sister White and Prayer for the Sick ( 295 )
     Simple Fervent Prayer to Accompany Treatment ( 296 )
Section 9—Counsels on Many Matters ( 297 )
   Introduction ( 298 )
   Chapter 37—Seventh-day Adventists and Lawsuits ( 299 )
     Unsafe Counselors ( 300 )
     Counsel to a Believer Threatening Lawsuits ( 301 )
     The Saints to Judge the World ( 303 )
     Lawyers and Laodiceans ( 303 )
     A Lawsuit Against the Publishing House ( 303 )
     God’s Cause Injured ( 305 )
   Chapter 38—Science and Revelation ( 306 )
     The Fruitage of Skepticism ( 307 )
     God the Designer and Creator ( 311 )
   Chapter 39—Questions About the Saved ( 313 )
     Will Children of Unbelieving Parents Be Saved? ( 313 )
     Will the Resurrected Recognize One Another? ( 316 )
   Chapter 40—The Question of the Date Line ( 317 )
     The Sabbath Made for a Round World ( 317 )
     The Date Line Problem ( 317 )
   Chapter 41—Memorials, Are They Proper? ( 320 )
     Memorials to Remind Us of Our history ( 320 )
     Call to Remember the Former Days ( 320 )
   Chapter 42—Renting Our Churches to Other Denominations ( 322 )
   Chapter 43—Feelings of Despondency ( 324 )
     Ellen White Suffered Desponding Feelings ( 324 )
     Counsel to a Despondent Sister ( 324 )
     Look Beyond the Shadows ( 326 )
   Chapter 44—Specific Light on Gardening ( 328 )
     Ellen G. White Instructed in Planting Fruit Trees ( 328 )
     The Spraying of Fruit Trees ( 329 )
   Chapter 45—Balanced Counsel on Picture-making and Idolatry ( 330 )
   Chapter 46—Music and the Music Director ( 332 )
     Singing Drives Powers of Darkness Away ( 332 )
     Worldliness in Musical Lines ( 332 )
   Chapter 47—Work in the Spirit of Prayer ( 336 )
     Too Many Resolutions ( 337 )
   Chapter 48—The Bible Prophets Wrote for Our Time ( 338 )
     Treasures for the Last Generation ( 339 )
   Chapter 49—Can All Have the Gift of Prophecy? ( 340 )
   Chapter 50—Disparaging the Pioneers ( 342 )
     Increased Light Imposes Increased Responsibility ( 345 )
   Chapter 51—Attacks on Ellen White and Her Work ( 348 )
     Should We Keep Silent? ( 348 )
     To Meet and Correct Falsehoods ( 349 )
     The Church Paper to Speak ( 350 )
   Chapter 52—Sinlessness and Salvation ( 353 )
     The Claim to Sinlessness ( 353 )
     Let God, Not Men, Declare It ( 354 )
     Not Until This Vile Body Is Changed ( 355 )
     When the Conflict Is Ended ( 355 )
     The Assurance of Salvation Now ( 356 )
     Don’t Worry, Your Hope Is in Christ ( 356 )
   Chapter 53—Study the Testimonies ( 358 )
     Light Will Condemn Those Who Do Not Choose to Study and Obey ( 358 )
     Ellen G. White Urged to Call for Testimony Study ( 358 )
     Personal Study Would Answer Questions ( 359 )
     Read the Testimonies for Yourselves ( 359 )
     Testimonies Our Protection ( 360 )
Section 10—Meeting Fanaticism ( 361 )
   Introduction ( 362 )
   Chapter 54—The Mackin Case ( 363 )
     Report of the Interview ( 363 )
     The Lord Did Give Light ( 376 )
     Another Reference to Demon Possession ( 378 )
Section 11—Last-Day Events ( 379 )
   Introduction ( 380 )
   Chapter 55—Lessons From Meeting the Sunday Law Crisis of the Late 1880’s and Early 1890’s ( 383 )
     Assurance as the Clouds Darken in 1884 ( 383 )
     America Can Become the Place of Greatest Peril ( 387 )
     An Early View of Sabbath Importance ( 388 )
     Counsel Relating to Sunday Law Issues ( 394 )
     Self-indulgent Will Scorn Faithful Ones ( 398 )
     Pay Fine if It Will Deliver From the Oppressor ( 400 )
   Chapter 56—As We Near the End ( 403 )
     Misleading Messages Will Be Accepted by Many ( 403 )
     Steadfastness, but No Defiance ( 405 )
     Backsliding SDA’s Unite With Unbelievers ( 407 )
     A Science of the Devil ( 408 )
     The Time of Apostasy is Here ( 408 )
     Angels Will Hold Four Winds Until After Sealing ( 409 )
     Satan and his Angels Mingle With Apostates ( 409 )
     The Work of Independent Teachers ( 409 )
     Evil Angels in the Form of Believers Will Work in Our Ranks ( 410 )
     Apostasies That Will Surprise Us ( 411 )
     Apostates Will Use Hypnotism ( 411 )
     “Unify, Unify” ( 412 )
   Chapter 57—The Last Great Struggle ( 413 )
     The Trouble Ahead ( 414 )
     A Law of Nations That Will Cause Men to Violate God’s Law ( 415 )
     The World in Rebellion ( 415 )
     Many Children Will Be Taken Away ( 419 )
     The Final Conflict Will Be Short but Terrible ( 419 )
     When Persecuted Flee to Another Place ( 420 )
     Martyrdom God’s Means of Bringing Many Into Truth ( 420 )
     Christ Stands by the Side of Persecuted Saints ( 420 )
     Merchants and Princes Will Take Their Stand ( 421 )
     Every Human Being Will Be Either in Christ’s Army or Satan’s Army ( 422 )
     Christ Mingles in the Ranks in the Last Conflict ( 425 )
     Our Lives and the Final Preparation ( 426 )
     A Vivid View of Coming Events ( 427 )
Appendix ( 432 )
   Appendix A ( 433 )
     The Great Controversy—1911 Edition ( 433 )
     Copy of a Letter Written by Elder W. C. White: ( 441 )
   Appendix B ( 445 )
     W. C. White statement made to W. W. Eastman, [Publishing Department Secretary, Southwestern Union Conference.] November 4, 1912. ( 445 )
     Ellen G. White Writings on History ( 446 )
     Chronology ( 448 )
     Make Only Modest Claims ( 449 )
   Appendix C ( 451 )
     W. C. White letter to L. E. Froom, [At that time Elder Froom was an associate secretary of the General Conference Ministerial Association.] January 8, 1928 ( 451 )
     W. C. White letter to L. E. Froom, January 8, 1928 ( 453 )
     W. C. White Letter to L. E. Froom At this time secretary of the General Conference Ministerial Association.] December 13, 1934 ( 461 )