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The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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    Ellen Harmon’s Call

    It was upon a youthful member of one of those advent groups in Maine that the burden was laid. She was a mere girl, Ellen G. Harmon, but one who had had a good Christian experience in the advent awakening preceding 1844. Near the close of 1844 the Lord appeared to her in vision, as she was kneeling at family worship. She was shown the journey of the advent people from the days following 1844 to the city of God. (See the book, “Early Writings,” by Mrs. E. G. White, pp. 14-20, under the title, “My First Vision.”) The young girl was told to tell to others what should be revealed to her.SPIAM 27.2

    Miss Harmon, also, felt that it was impossible for her to accept the call. In “Early Writings” we are told:SPIAM 27.3

    “After I came out of this vision I was exceedingly troubled. My health was very poor, and I was but seventeen years old. I knew that many had fallen through exaltation, and I knew that if I in any way became exalted, God would leave me, and I should surely be lost. I went to the Lord in prayer and begged Him to lay the burden on some one else. It seemed to me that I could not bear it. I lay upon my face a long time, and all the light I could get was, ‘Make known to others what I have revealed to you.’ ...Said the angel, ‘If you deliver the messages faithfully, and endure unto the end, you shall eat of the fruit of the tree of life, and drink of the water of the river of life. ’ ”—Pages 20, 21.SPIAM 27.4

    In that first vision she had been shown glimpses of that tree of life and the river of life. And that young girl rose from prayer to take up the burden. Faithful she was For seventy years her voice was heard bearing messages of counsel in the advent movement; and the writings from her pen have been a blessed gift to the remnant church all along the way, and a blessing to millions of readers in many languages.SPIAM 28.1

    The published books are a monument to the gift against which all the critics have dealt their blows in vain. The prophecy foretold that the attacks would come. The enemy was to be wroth with the remnant church, the prophecy on Patmos forewarned, because of two things especially,—they were to keep the commandments of God, and were to have the Spirit of prophecy. If the attacks failed to come, we should know there was a mistake somewhere.SPIAM 28.2

    Personally, I have a fair memory of the character of most of the written attacks of the last sixty years. In earlier times the objectors’ leaflets were flying about continually. But not a critic has there been who could produce anything like these writings that he criticizes. There is something here that baffles the critic and holds him smiting in vain against the monumental rock of truth.SPIAM 28.3

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