The document discusses divisions that arose at the 1888 General Conference meeting over interpretations of biblical prophecies and the law in Galatians. It describes tensions between E.G. White, George Ide Butler, Alonzo T. Jones, and Ellet J. Waggoner over these issues. White counseled unity but also warned against compromising on truth. The resolutions presented to the conference showed the disagreements between those viewing the law in Galatians as ceremonial versus the moral law.

1. You will take passages in the Testimonies that speak of
the close of probation, of the shaking among God's people,
and you will talk of a coming out from this people of a
purer, holier people that will arise. Now all this pleases the
enemy. . . . Should many accept the views you advance,
and talk and act upon them, we would see one of the
greatest fanatical excitements that has ever been
witnessed among Seventh-day Adventists. This is what
Satan wants.--1SM 179 (1890). {LDE 51.1}
The Lord has not given you a message to call the
Seventh-day Adventists Babylon, and to call the people of
God to come out of her. All the reasons you may present
cannot have weight with me on this subject, because the
Lord has given me decided light that is opposed to such a
message. . . . {LDE 51.2}
I know that the Lord loves His church. It is not to be
disorganized or broken up into independent atoms. There is
not the least consistency in this; there is not the least
evidence that such a thing will be.--2SM 63, 68, 69 (1893).
{LDE 51.3}

2. Some have advanced the thought that, as
we near the close of time, every child of
God will act independently of any religious
organization. But I have been instructed
by the Lord that in this work there is no
such thing as every man's being
independent. The stars of heaven are all
under law, each influencing the other to
do the will of God, yielding their common
obedience to the law that controls their
action. And, in order that the Lord's work
may advance healthfully and solidly, His
people must draw together. {9T 258.1}

3. "God has a church upon the earth, who
are his chosen people, who keep his
commandments. He is leading, not stray
off-shoots, not one here and one there,
but a people. The truth is a sanctifying
power; but the church militant is not the
church triumphant. There are tares among
the wheat. 'Wilt thou then that we gather
them up?' was the question of the
servant; but the master answered, 'Nay;
lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
up also the wheat with them.' The gospel
net draws not only good fish, but bad ones
as well, and the Lord only knows who are
his. {RH, September 12, 1893 par. 19}

4. During ages of spiritual darkness the
church of God has been as a city set
on a hill. From age to age, through
successive generations, the pure
doctrines of heaven have been
unfolding within its borders.
Enfeebled and defective as it may
appear, the church is the one object
upon which God bestows in a special
sense His supreme regard. It is the
theater of His grace, in which He
delights to reveal His power to
transform hearts. {AA 12.1}

5. This talking about divisions
because all do not have the
same ideas as present
themselves to your mind, is
not the work of God, but of
the enemy. Talk the simple
truths wherein you can
agree. Talk of unity; do not
become narrow and
conceited; let your mind
broaden. {1SM 181.4}

6. Our church members see that there are
differences of opinion among the leading men,
and they themselves enter into controversy
regarding the subjects under dispute. Christ
calls for unity. But He does not call for us to
unify on wrong practices. The God of heaven
draws a sharp contrast between pure,
elevating, ennobling truth and false, misleading
doctrines. He calls sin and impenitence by the
right name. He does not gloss over wrongdoing
with a coat of untempered mortar. I urge our
brethren to unify upon a true, scriptural basis.-
-Manuscript 10, 1905

7. Those who have been educated in the truth by
precept and example should make great
allowance for others who have had no knowledge
of the Scriptures except through the
interpretations given by ministers and church
members, and who have received traditions and
fables as Bible truth. They are surprised by the
presentation of truth, it is as a new revelation to
them, and they cannot bear to have all the truth,
in its most striking character, presented to them
at the outset. All is new and strange, and wholly
unlike that which they have heard from their
ministers; and they are inclined to believe what
the ministers have told them--that Seventh-day
Adventists are infidels and do not believe the
Bible. Let the truth be presented as it is in Jesus,
line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little
and there a little. {9T 240.3}

8. The debating spirit has come into the ranks
of Sabbathkeepers to take the place of the
Spirit of God. They have placed finite men
where God should be, but nothing can
suffice for us but to have Christ dwell in our
hearts by faith. The truth must become
ours. Christ must be our Saviour by an
experimental knowledge. We should know
by faith what it is to have our sins
pardoned, and to be born again. We must
have a higher, deeper wisdom than man's
to guide us amid the perils surrounding our
pathway. The Spirit of Christ must be in us
just as the blood is in the body, circulating
through it as a vitalizing power. {1888
168.3}

9. As those who have been made stewards of means
and ability, you have been misapplying your
Lord's goods in disseminating error. The whole
world is filled with hatred of those who proclaim
the binding claims of the law of God, and the
church who are loyal to Jehovah must engage in
no ordinary conflict. "We wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places." Ephesians 6:12. Those who have any
realization of what this warfare means will not
turn their weapons against the church militant,
but with all their powers will wrestle with the
people of God against the confederacy of evil.
436 {CCh 243.4}

10. 1891-1900
E.G. WHITE AND
HER SON W. WHITE
BANISHED IN
AUSTRALIA FOR 9
YEARS WITHOUT
SUPPORT

11. I have not, I think, revealed the entire workings that
led me here to Australia. Perhaps you may never fully
understand the matter. The Lord was not in our
leaving America. He did not reveal that it was his will
that I should leave Battle Creek. The Lord did not plan
this, but he let you all move after your own
imaginings. The Lord would have had W. C. White, his
mother, and her workers remain in America. We were
needed at the heart of the work, and had your
spiritual perception discerned the true situation, you
would never have consented to the movements made.
But the Lord read the hearts of all. There was so great
a willingness to have us leave, that the Lord
permitted this thing to take place. Those who were
weary of the testimonies borne were left without the
persons who bore them. Our separation from Battle
Creek was to let men have their own will and way,
which they thought superior to the way of the Lord.
{1888 1622.1}

12. I have many thoughts that I am not
sent to this country [Australia] of the
Lord. I feel at times an assurance that
the Lord's will was for me to remain in
California, in my own home, and write
as I should be able to write upon the
life of Christ. Of one thing I am
certain--that the people need help in
this country. And I feared it might be
selfishness in me, or seeking my ease,
to refuse to go to Australia. {TDG
61.3}

13. We have taken up the work in the foreign fields, where the
people have never heard the truth, but the missionary work
has not been advanced as it should have been. We could not
go very far, because we had not the means. All that I have
received from the royalties of the books I have written, I
have invested in the work, and then I have said to my
brethren, by faith, "Lend me your means, I will pay you the
interest, but the work can not stop here." I have tried to carry
forward the medical missionary work and the gospel. These
two are united, and should never be separated, because
Christ did not separate them. Some institutions have been
established in Australia, but not half what there ought to be,
nor what there will be. After we had erected, with what help
we could get there, eleven meeting-houses, and organized
eleven churches, then the work was just taken hold of with
the ends of our fingers. What was the matter?--There was no
money in the treasury. We had no means to handle. I never
want men sent to missionary fields with nothing to work with,
as we were sent to Australia. They have sent some money to
that field, and this is no more than they should have done. It
was God's money. {GCB, April 8, 1901 par. 20}

14. How does God regard those who send His
servants into a barren field without means
and understanding of the work to be done?
Shall the messengers of God, sent with
strange and peculiar doctrines to a foreign
land, be left to make their own way to
support themselves and the work? God
forbid! If God spares my life to bear my
message to our people, the experience of
the Lord's workers in Australia will never be
repeated in any missionary field. It is a sad
thing how hard the work was made with
very little means to carry this important
work in fields. {10MR 1.6}

15. The Need for God-fearing Educators (To W.
W. Prescott) -- From time to time I have
been compelled to urge our case upon the
attention of our brethren at home. We were
sent to these colonies [Australia and New
Zealand] by the conference, and again and
again I have presented our situation before
you at Battle Creek. But in face of all this
the policy has been pursued of enlarging
the institutions in Battle Creek, adding
building to building, in order to
accommodate a larger influx. All this is
eating up the funds. I know that perilous
times are upon us, and pressure for means
that we do not now discern. {10MR 345.4}

17. Heb 10:38, 39: Now the
just shall live by faith: but
if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure
in him. But we are not of
them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the
soul.

18. Ro 1:17 For therein is the
righteousness of God
revealed from faith to
faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith.
Hab 2:4 Behold, his soul
which is lifted up is not
upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith.

19. Question:
My acceptance in the final
judgment will be based
on:
a) My character
b) The character which
Christ worked out
within me
c) The forgiveness of sins

20. Seventh-day Adventists
and the 1888 General
Conference
• A milestone in their
history
• A major turning point in
their theological
development

21. Minneapolis 1888
● Ministerial Institute October 10-16
● General Conference session Oct 17-
Nov 4

22. Adventists are still sharply
divided over the meaning
and the significance of the
1888 meetings:
•Some regard Minneapolis
as a major victory
•Others view it as the
denomination’s greatest
tragedy.

23. Landmark Truths:
Sanctuary Spirit of Prophecy
3 Angels’ messages Conditional
immortality
2nd Advent Law–Sabbath

24. J. White wrote in Present
Truth:
“The keeping of the
fourth commandment
is all-important
present truth; but this
alone, will not save
anyone. We must
keep all ten of the
commandments, and
strictly follow all the
directions of the New
Testament, and have
living active faith in
Jesus.” (Present Truth,
July 1849.)

25. “As a people
we have
preached the
law until we
are as dry as
the hills of
Gilboa that had
neither dew
nor rain. We
must preach
Christ in the
law” (Review &
Herald, 11. 3. 1890.)
Ellen Harmon-White
(1827-1915)

28. In 1887 she
wrote from
Europe: “A
revival of true
godliness
among us is the
greatest and
most urgent of
all our needs.”
(Review and Herald,
2. 3. 1887.)

29. Alonzo T. Jones (1850-1923)
“Jones was a towering,
angular man, with a
loping gait and uncouth
posturings and
gestures. . . [He] was
aggressive, and at
times obstreperous, and
he gave just cause for
resentment.” (Arthur W.
Spalding, Origin and History
of Seventh-day Adventists, 4
vols. (Washington, D.C.:
Review and Herald, 1962),
2: 291, 292.)
Alonzo T. Jones (1850-1923)

30. Ellet J. Waggoner (1855-1916)
Ellet J. Waggoner (1855-1916)

31. In the week-long
Ministerial Institute that
preceded the General
Conference, two issues
divided the ministerial
work-force:
A. Conflict over the ten
horns in Dan 7

32. ● U. Smith in the Review
and Herald and in his
book on Daniel &
Revelation claimed that
the 10th horn were the
Huns.
• A. T. Jones in a Signs
article stated that the
10th horn were the
Alemanni.

33. A. T. Jones:
“Elder Smith has
told you he
doesn’t know
anything about
this matter. I
do, and I don’t
want you to
blame me for
what he does
not know.”

34. B. Conflict over the Law in
Galatians
Gal 3:24 “Wherefore the
law was our
schoolmaster
(paidagoges) to bring
us unto Christ that we
might be justified by
faith.”

35. O. A. Johnson:
“The law in
Galatians is the
ceremonial law”
(“The Two Laws,” Review
& Herald, 1886.)

36. E. J. Waggoner:
Series of nine
articles in the
Signs in which
he claimed
that the law in
Galatians is
the moral law.

37. Conflict between
the prophetess
and George Ide
Butler

38. Ellen G. White (1827-1915)

39. George Ide Butler 1834-1918

40. Ellen G. White
Shortly after the
appearance of Butler’s
article Ellen White told
Butler that she had not
sent him a copy of her
letter to Waggoner and
Jones to use as a
weapon against them,
but that he and Smith,
who published the
article, should follow the
same caution in bringing
disagreements to the
public’s attention.

41. 1. Resolved – That the Law in Galatians is
the Ceremonial Law.
Signed: J. H. Morrison
(Iowa Conference President)
2. Resolved – That the Law in Galatians
is the Moral Law
Signed:
…………………………………………………….

42. E. G. White in 1896:
“In this Scripture (Gal
3:24), the Holy Spirit
through the apostle is
speaking especially of
the moral law. The
law reveals sin to us,
and causes us to feel
our need of Christ and
to flee to Him for
pardon and peace. . .
.” (1 SM 234)

43. ◊ In May of 1888 Senator
H. W. Blair of New
Hampshire introduced a
bill (Blair Bill) for the
observance of the Lord’s
Day (Sunday) in the US
Senate.
◊ This was for Adventists
a sign of the imminent
end of the world.
Revelation 13 was being
fulfilled. This was not the
time to make changes.

44. Leadership:
“We cannot start changing
our prophetic interpretation
now. Non-Adventists would
say, if you are wrong on the
ten horns and the law in
Galatians, how do we know
you are right on the other
things?”

45. The 1888
General
Conference

46. The General Conference convened Wednesday,
October 17, at 9 am.
Stephen . N. Haskell
(1833-1922) was the
temporary chairman in
the absence of G. I.
Butler, who was sick.

47. • About. 90 delegates represented 27 000
church members.
• The progress of new mission fields,
• the distribution of labor,
• city evangelism,
• a new ship for the South Pacific
(Pitcairn), and many other items were
taken up.

48. Ellen White:
“The Lord in His great
mercy sent a most precious
message to His people
through Elders Waggoner
and Jones . . . . It
presented justification
through faith in the surety
(Christ). It invited the
people to receive the
righteousness of Christ,
which is made manifest in
obedience to all the
commandments of God.”
(TM 91-92.)

50. GENERAL CONFERENCE DAILY BULLETIN
______________________________________________
VOL. IMINNEAPOLIS, MINN., OCT. 19,
1888 NO. 1
__________________________________
At 2:30 p.m. Elder E. J. Waggoner
discussed the question of the Law of God
and its relation to the Gospel of Christ. The
discussion was based principally on the
Epistle to the Romans.

51. Second Day’s Proceedings
At 9 a.m. Elder E.. J. Waggoner gave
another lesson on the law and gospel. In
this lesson the first and second chapters of
Galatians, in connection with Acts 15,
were partially represented by him to show
that the same harmony existed there as
elsewhere; that the key to the book was
“justification by faith in Christ,” with the
emphasis on the latter word, that liberty in
Christ was always freedom from sin, and
that separation from Christ to some other
means of justification always brought
bondage.

52. He stated incidentally that “the law of
Moses” and “the law of God” were not
distinctive terms as applied to the
ceremonial and moral laws, and cited
Num. 15:22-24, and Luke 2:23-24, as
proof. He closed at 10:15 by asking those
present to compare Acts 15:7-11 with
Rom. 3:20-25. Appeals were made by
Brother Waggoner and Sister White to the
brethren, old and young, to seek God, put
away all spirit of prejudice and
opposition, and strive to come into the
unity of faith in the bonds of brotherly
love.

53. Friday, Oct. 19, 1888.
At 9 a.m. Elder Waggoner continued his
lessons on the law and gospel. The
Scriptures considered were the fifteenth
chapter of Acts and the second and third
of Galatians, compared with Romans iv.
and other passages in Romans. His
purpose was to show that the real point of
controversy was justification by faith in
Christ, which faith is reckoned to us as to
Abraham, for righteousness. The covenant
and promises to Abraham are the covenant
and promises to us.

54. Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1888.
A series of instructive lectures has been
given on “Justification by faith” by Eld. E.
J. Waggoner. The closing one was given
this morning. With the foundation
principles all are agreed, but there are
some differences in regard to the
interpretation of several passages. The
lectures have tended to a more thorough
investigation of the truth, and it is hoped
that the unity of the faith will be reached
on this important question.

55. A Comparison
GC Daily Bulletin Christ and His
Righteousness
Galatians 1 and 2 1 reference to Acts 4:12
Acts 15 2 to Galatians (1:15-16;
4:4-5)
Numbers 15:22-24 7 to Romans
Luke 2:23-24 26 to the Gospel of John
Acts 15: 7-11 21 to Hebrews.
Romans 3:20-25
Acts 15
Galatians 2 and 3
Romans 4

56. The fact that Christ took
upon Himself the flesh,
not of a sinless being,
but of sinful man, that
is, that the flesh which
He assumed had all the
weaknesses and sinful
tendencies to which
fallen human nature is
subject. (E. J. Waggoner, Christ
and His Righteousness [Oakland, CA:
Pacific Press, 1890], 26-27).

57. A.V. Olson:
The real burden of the message on
righteousness by faith as presented
by them, but primarily by Elder
Waggoner, at the Minneapolis session
was to affirm the truth that the only
way righteousness can be obtained is
through a living faith in the Lamb of
God, whose blood was shed on
Calvary’s cross as a propitiation for
the sins of the world. (A.V. Olson, Through
Crisis to Victory: 1888-1901 [Washington, D.C.:
Review and Herald, 1966], 35.)

58. No one can enter the kingdom of God
without being clad in the spotless robe of
Christ’s righteousness. This robe can
neither be purchased with silver or gold
nor earned by good works. This message
was a clarion call to make Christ and His
righteousness the center of all our living
and our preaching. It placed special
emphasis on righteousness by faith as a
real personal experience rather than a
mere theory. (A.V. Olson, Through Crisis to Victory: 1888-
1901 [Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald, 1966], 35.)

59. Obedience to The
Commandments

60. Uriah Smith (1832-1903)
The law is spiritual, holy,
just, and good, the divine
standard of righteousness.
Perfect obedience to it will
develop perfect
righteousness, and that is
the only way anyone can
attain to righteousness . .
. . . there is not a Seventh-day
Adventist in the land
who has not been taught
better than to suppose
that in his own strength
he could keep the
commandments, or do
anything without Christ.
(Review & Herald, June 11, 1889.)

61. ◊ Sanctification was
seen as the basis of
salvation.
◊ The work of Christ in
justification was seen
primarily in regard to
our sins of the past:

62. Signs of the Times
As all have violated God’s law and
cannot of themselves render
obedience to His just
requirements, we are dependent
on Christ, first for justification
from our past offenses, and,
secondly, for grace whereby to
render acceptable obedience to
His Holy law in time to come.
(Anonymous, “Fundamental Principles,”
Signs of the Times, June 4, 1874.)

63. Waggoner:
1. Man’s obedience can
never satisfy God’s
law.
2. Christ’s imputed
righteousness alone
is the basis of our
acceptance by God.
3. We constantly need
the covering of
Christ’s
righteousness, not
just for our past sins.

64. E. J. Waggoner in Christ and His
Righteousness
Let the reader try to picture the
scene. Here stands the law as
the swift witness against the
sinner. It cannot change, and it
will not call a sinner a righteous
man. The convicted sinner tries
again and again to obtain
righteousness from the law, but
it resists all his advances. It
cannot be bribed by any amount
of penance or professedly good
deeds. But here stands Christ,
“full of grace” as well as of
truth, calling the sinner to Him.

65. At last the sinner, weary of the vain
struggle to get righteousness from the
law, listens to the voice of Christ, and
flees to His outstretched arms. Hiding in
Christ, he is covered with His
righteousness; and now behold! he has
obtained, through faith in Christ, that for
which he has been vainly striving. He has
the righteousness which the law requires,
and it is the genuine article, because he
obtained it from the Source of
Righteousness; from the very place
whence the law came. (E. J. Waggoner, Christ and His
Righteousness [Oakland, CA: Pacific Press, 1890], 62.)

66. Reaction of his listeners:
1. Some accepted the message and
supported Waggoner: E. G.
White, Willi White, Haskell,
Wilcox, etc.
2. Some rejected the message: U.
Smith, J. H. Morrison, Conradi,
etc.
3. The majority was undecided,
they did not know what to
believe.

67. At one stage E. G.
White was so
discouraged she
wanted to leave, but
the angel of the Lord
told her:
“Not so; God has
a work for you to
do in this place.
The people are
acting over the
rebellion of
Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram.”
(Letter 2a 1892 (Olson,
43).)

68. Ellen White in 1889:
“I have never seen a
revival work go
forward with such
thoroughness, and
yet remain so free
from all undue
excitement.” (Review &
Herald March 5, 1889
(Olson, 64)

69. Some say the
church as a
whole rejected
the Message
of Minneapolis
and call for
corporate
repentance.

70. T. G. Bunch, Forty Years
in the Wilderness: In
Type and Antitype
(1934).
He equated the
Minneapolis experience
of Adventism with the
Kadesh-Barnea
experience of ancient
Israel.
What Happened at
Kadesh-Barnea?

71. Nu 13:26 And they went and came to Moses,
and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of
the children of Israel, unto the wilderness
of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word
unto them, and unto all the congregation,
and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Nu 32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent
them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
The People rebelled just 11 days to the land
of Canaan and were forced to spend 40
years in the wilderness

72. BUT WHAT WAS THE OTHER
MESSAGE THAT RECEIVED A
LOT OF OPPOSITION THAT
THE PIONEERS TAUGHT IN
1888 THAT THE CHURCH
HAS SUPPRESSED AND IS
SILENT AND NEVER WANT
IT TO BE RESURRECTED
HEARD OF????!!!!!

73. “There was a time when
Christ proceeded forth
and came from God,
from the bosom of the
Father (John 8:42;
1:18), but that time was
so far back in the days
of eternity that to finite
comprehension it is
practically without
beginning.” (E. J. Waggoner,
Christ and His Righteousness
[Oakland, CA: Pacific Press, 1890], 21-
22)

74. THE
NATURE
OF CHRIST

75. In 1888 in the General Conference held at Minneapolis,
Minn., the angel of Revelation 18 came down to his work,
and was ridiculed, criticized, and rejected, and when the
message he brings again will swell into a loud cry, it will
again be ridiculed and spoken against, and rejected by
the majority. (Are Seventh-day Adventists Doing God’s
Will?, p. 10)
I suppose the average, denominational Seventh-day
Adventist would not want to recognize a statement like
this, because it is one of the clearest statements that
we can find, which speaks of a clear apostasy which
took place in 1888 and that will continue, and will
intensify, and reach its peak in the last days. What was
Ellen White talking about?

76. Ellen White, however, was in no doubt as to
the importance of the message which
these two men had brought.
Concerning the message she wrote:
This is the message that God
commanded to be given to the world.
It is the third angel’s message, which is
to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and
attended with the outpouring of His Spirit
in a large measure. (Testimonies to
Ministers, p. 92)

77. I have had the question asked, What do you think of this
light that these men are presenting? Why, I have been
presenting it to you for the last forty-five years—the
matchless charms of Christ. This is what I have been
trying to present before your minds. When Brother
Waggoner brought out these ideas in Minneapolis, it was
the first clear teaching on this subject from any human
lips I had heard, excepting the conversations between
myself and my husband. I have said to myself, It is
because God has presented it to me in vision that I see it
so clearly, and they cannot see it because they have
never had it presented to them as I have. And when
another presented it, every fiber of my heart said,
Amen.—Manuscript 5, 10. (Sermon, Rome, New York,
June 19, 1889.)

78. In the first six chapters, the divinity of Christ is
Waggoner’s focus to a great extent. He is trying to
prove that Jesus was not created; He was not a
lesser being than God. The one who redeemed us
is truly a divine being. That was his focus. He was
trying to show man the great and exalted work
that has been done on our behalf. It was not a
lesser being that died for humanity, but One who
was higher than anything that created intelligence
can fathom. The price paid for us is infinitely great!
Waggoner realized that people needed to
understand who Christ was. They needed to have
Christ exalted as He truly was, if they were ever to
relate to Him in the right way. Notice how Ellen
White agreed that this was what Waggoner tried to
express to the people:

79. Messages bearing the divine credentials
have been sent to God’s people; the glory,
the majesty, the righteousness of
Christ, full of goodness and truth, have
been presented; the fullness of the
Godhead in Jesus Christ has been set
forth among us with beauty and
loveliness, to charm all whose hearts
were not closed with prejudice. We know
that God has wrought among us. We have
seen souls turn from sin to righteousness.
We have seen faith revived in the hearts of
the contrite ones. (Review and Herald, May
27, 1890)

80. The other version, embraced by the present Seventh day
Adventist church says that Christ is God because He is one
of three Gods. He always was and always will be. There are
these three Beings who just happened to be there from all
eternity.
But Waggoner was teaching something else, and when he
taught this something, Ellen White, preaching a sermon at
Rome, New York, June 19, 1889 said:
When Brother Waggoner brought out these ideas in
Minneapolis, it was the first clear teaching on this subject
from any human lips I had heard, excepting the
conversations between myself and my husband. I have said
to myself, It is because God has presented it to me in vision
that I see it so clearly, and they cannot see it because they
have never had it presented to them as I have. And when
another presented it, every fiber of my heart said, Amen.
(Manuscript Releases, vol. 5, p. 219)

81. The other version, embraced by the present Seventh day
Adventist church says that Christ is God because He is one
of three Gods. He always was and always will be. There are
these three Beings who just happened to be there from all
eternity.
But Waggoner was teaching something else, and when he
taught this something, Ellen White, preaching a sermon at
Rome, New York, June 19, 1889 said:
When Brother Waggoner brought out these ideas in
Minneapolis, it was the first clear teaching on this subject
from any human lips I had heard, excepting the
conversations between myself and my husband. I have said
to myself, It is because God has presented it to me in vision
that I see it so clearly, and they cannot see it because they
have never had it presented to them as I have. And when
another presented it, every fiber of my heart said, Amen.
(Manuscript Releases, vol. 5, p. 219)

82. WHY IS THAT
MESSAGE SO
IMPORTANT?

83. It helps and brings to light and
understanding of
1. Phil 4:13
2. 1John 3:9
3. 1John 5:18
4. Jude 24, 25
5. John 1:12, 13
6. 2Corinthians 5:16, 17
That which we lost when Adam fell, we get back
through faith in Jesus Christ. We become the seed
of Christ that’s Adam restored. And humanity
combined with divinity does not sin. THE SECRET
OF VICTORY OVER SIN

84. But must works come first? No, it is faith
first. And how? The cross of Christ is lifted
up between heaven and earth. Here comes
the Father and the whole train of holy
angels; and as they approach that cross, the
Father bows to the cross and the sacrifice is
accepted. Then comes sinful man, with his
burden of sin, to the cross, and he there
looks up to Christ on the cross of Calvary,
and he rolls his sins at the foot of the cross.
Here mercy and truth have met together
and righteousness and peace have kissed
each other. And Christ says, "I, if I be lifted
up, will draw all men unto Me." {1888
344.1}

85. Christ could have done nothing during His earthly ministry in saving
fallen man if the divine had not been blended with the human. The
limited capacity of man cannot define this wonderful mystery--the
blending the two natures, the divine and the human. It can never be
explained. Man must wonder and be silent. And yet man is privileged
to be a partaker of the divine nature, and in this way he can to some
degree enter into the mystery. This wonderful exhibition of God's
love was made on the cross of Calvary. Divinity took the nature of
humanity, and for what purpose?--That through the righteousness of
Christ humanity might partake of the divine nature. This union of
divinity and humanity, which was possible with Christ, is
incomprehensible to human minds. The wonderful things to take
place in our world--the greatest events of all ages--are
incomprehensible to worldly minds; they cannot be explained by
human sciences. The powers of heaven shall be shaken. Christ is
coming in power and great glory, but His coming is not such a
mystery as the things to take place before that event. Man must be a
partaker of the divine nature in order to stand in this evil time, when
the mysteries of satanic agencies are at work. Only by the divine
power united with the human can souls endure through these times
of trial. Says Christ, "Without me ye can do nothing." Then there
must be far less of self and more of Jesus. {1888 332.1}

86. In the future, deception of every
kind is to arise, and we want solid
ground for our feet. We want solid
pillars for the building. Not one
pin is to be removed from that
which the Lord has established. . .
. Where shall we find safety
unless it be in the truths that the
Lord has been giving for the last
fifty years?--Review and Herald,
May 25, 1905. {Ev 610.3}

87. CAN WE
CONFIDENTLY
AFFIRM THE
FOLLOWING
STATEMENT??

88. In reviewing our past history,
having traveled over every
step of advance to our
present standing, I can say,
Praise God! As I see what the
Lord has wrought, I am filled
with astonishment, and with
confidence in Christ as
leader. We have nothing to
fear for the future, except as
we shall forget the way the
Lord has led us, and His
teaching in our past history.
(Ellen G. White, Life Sketches [Mountain
View, CA: Pacific Press, 1915], 196).