Evidences of the Divine Call

1. The harmony of Mrs. White’s teachings with the great standard of all truth and doctrine, the Holy Scriptures. If she was possessed of the gift of the Spirit, in the very nature of the case this would be so. A lack of harmony between her teachings and the teachings of the Bible would indicate that her claims were false.TOJ 34.2

2. Her writings are not set forth as an addition to the Sacred Canon. On the contrary, their object is to exalt that word. The great principles of truth expressed in the Bible have been drawn out in finer detail and applied to the various phases of Christian experience and life’s varying circumstances.TOJ 34.3

3. On many occasions, in striking instances and in marvelous ways, God used His messenger to save His church in severe crises from mistakes or divisions, and to safeguard His people from specious error in doctrine or in Christian experience.TOJ 34.4

4. She showed throughout her entire experience deep spiritual vision and strength of character in the active part she bore in the development of every phase of the second advent movement. Her testimony was and is a ringing call to deeper consecration, to the putting away of sin, to the enthronement of Christ in the heart, to more active Christian service in the homeland and in the great mission fields. Her life and labors proved a mighty incentive to the carrying of the gospel message to earth’s remotest bounds.TOJ 34.5

5. Her messages make a direct appeal to the heart, and are proving in thousands of lives a transforming power, and an inspiration to Christian service.TOJ 35.1

6. Her life and Christian experience conformed to the pure, simple, dignified principles of the gospel of Christ. She exemplified in her own life, as does every true prophet, the principles of truth she taught to others.TOJ 35.2

7. The correspondence of the physical manifestations in many of her visions to the experience of the prophets of old. We refer to the physical manifestations under which many of these visions were given, similar to the experience of Daniel and other prophets of the Old Testament.TOJ 35.3

We do not, however, regard these physical manifestations as the principal convincing evidences of the divine call to Mrs. White. Rather, they constitute subsidiary or contributing evidences. The great proof of her call to divine ministry was shown in the answer of her work to prophetic prediction; in the spirit which characterized her ministry throughout the years; in the correspondence of her teachings to those of the Bible; in the marked manner in which she was used of God to save His church in many crises; by the fruit her ministry bore through all the years of her earthly life, and fruit which is still appearing as a result of her labors.TOJ 35.4