It was Ellen White’s unwavering conviction that, from 1844 on to the close of her long life in 1915, divine revelations were given her from God. She never claimed verbal inspiration or verbal perfection for the messages she bore. But she did maintain that these communications came from the Lord, and were the result of an enlightened mind, though expressed in her own language and style. The character and claims of these messages called for careful investigation, in order to determine whether they were indeed a restoration of the true prophetic gift or were merely a deceptive counterfeit. PFF4 989.1