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The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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    Some Sources Of Book Material

    Much material that went into the published books was originally written in counsels to individuals, or to committees or boards. A message might be given by the Spirit of prophecy for some worker or leader. Page after page would Mrs. White’s pen trace, of counsel and exhortation, of encouragement and warning to that person. In one letter lessons might be drawn from the life of Abraham, or from the experiences of David, or Daniel, or Paul. Thus here was matter exactly fitted to make part of a chapter in this book or that, as the time came for the compilation of a permanent volume.SPIAM 50.1

    That pen was busy through the years, sending messages uncounted to workers and people, and producing the finest expositions of Bible themes, needing, of course, the amplifying and working over and over and the additions of matter from the same pen, to make the connected and complete discourse or narrative of a choice volume.SPIAM 50.2

    These letters, or testimonies, as they are called, were written at home and abroad, in the midst of general meetings, or in hours caught in travels by rail or steamship, in homes where the writer might be a visitor—all through the seventy years it was going on.SPIAM 50.3

    Who, ordinarily, could make up chapters for such books from copies of one’s letters? Every person in official work has written letters, year after year. In making an unflattering comparison, I should speak only of my own letters, if I may be excused for doing so. In two terms of service I worked as Mission Board secretary for almost twenty-five years. Naturally, I was called to write, write, by stenographic dictation, to workers at home and in every part of the earth. I did my best. But all the literary talent in our denomination could not make a worth-while chapter for a book out of all the copies of my letters that are stacked up somewhere at headquarters. We don’t write that kind of letters. But when this agent was moved by the Spirit to write letters, there was something not discoverable in any natural way of letter writing. That is how we now and then find some of the choicest and finest paragraphs or pages in the printed volumes in some letter of older date that was manifestly hurriedly written and hastened on to this or that worker in need of counsel.SPIAM 50.4

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