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The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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    Rounding Out The Book Series

    As time passed, Mrs. White felt more and more the pressure to round out the series of books containing light needed by the believers and the public. In 1903 she wrote to a friend:SPIAM 55.1

    “My health is good, and I am able to do much writing. I thank the Lord for this. I have decided not to attend so many camp meetings, but to give my time to my writing.... I greatly desire to write on the life of Solomon and on the history following his reign, and I desire, too, to write on the life of Paul and his work in connection with the other apostles. At times the thought of this neglected work keeps me awake at night.”—Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 434.SPIAM 55.2

    The number of camp meetings attended may have been reduced, but we would call the years following rather busy times for her in general work. There were trips to the Eastern States,—to Councils and General Conference sessions,—to the Middle West, and to the South, as well as much time spent in Southern California, where the interests of the health institutions and the establishment of the medical college drew heavily upon her. But a calendar of books prepared in these years shows how Mrs. White struggled to give her time to the series of books that she felt she must see completed. Here is a partial schedule (culled from “Life Sketches”) of books prepared after the letter of 1903, quoted above:SPIAM 55.3

    1903—The book “Education,” which a school inspector in a British commonwealth pronounced “a masterpiece.”SPIAM 56.1

    1904—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol VIII.SPIAM 56.2

    1905—“Ministry of Healing,” of which a Lutheran bishop, of Europe, said, “There is a book instinct with the Spirit of God from the first page to the last.”SPIAM 56.3

    1909—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IX, the last volume of this series.SPIAM 56.4

    1911—“Acts of the Apostles.”SPIAM 56.5

    1913—“Counsels to Teachers.”SPIAM 56.6

    1914—“Gospel Workers.”SPIAM 56.7

    1915—“Prophets and Kings.”SPIAM 56.8

    This last book completed the “Controversy” series begun many years before. This series, perhaps, should be listed for the benefit of those not so familiar with the volumes dealing with the whole range of the great controversy between Christ and Satan, from the time of the origin of sin in heaven to the final destruction of evil. Here are the five volumes: “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Prophets and Kings,” “The Desire of Ages,” “The Acts of the Apostles,” and “The Great Controversy” (this last being the story of redemption from Christ’s ascension through the ages to the second coming of Christ, and the end of sin and Satan, and the eternal triumph of the saved in the earth made new).SPIAM 56.9

    This was a remarkable outflow of volumes, continuing to 1915, the year when that pen was laid down. Looking at the range of it, in those busy closing years, and the depth of it and the breadth and richness of the instruction given, and its value to the movement and personally to us all, we recognize clearly the truth of Mrs. White’s repeated affirmation: “Of myself I could never have brought out the truths in these books, but the Lord has given me the help of His Holy Spirit.”SPIAM 56.10

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