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The Great Visions of Ellen G. White

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    Acknowledgments

    “Pay each one his due,” the apostle Paul reminded the Christians of Rome nearly two millennia ago: “taxes to whom taxes are due; toll to whom toll is due; respect and honor to everyone who deserves them” (Romans 13:7, NAB).GVEGW 7.1

    Such is not only an ethical Christian obligation, but a very special privilege as well, especially for writers. For as John Donne wrote in the seventeenth century, “no man is an island, entire of itself”: and as Tennyson had his character Ulysses confess in the nineteenth century, “I am a part of all that I have met.”GVEGW 7.2

    Very rarely is a book the product of one man’s or of one woman’s creativity. Appreciation as well as credit is due especially toGVEGW 7.3

    —the trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., and more particularly to its president and chairman, Kenneth H. Wood, and to the two executive secretaries whose tenure overlapped the development of the manuscript—Robert W. Olson and Paul A. Gordon—for providing both the time and encouragement for the development of this project.GVEGW 7.4

    —fellow colleagues in the White Estate, who critically read various chapters in manuscript form, and who offered most helpful suggestions regarding potential sources and manuscript improvement. (Mistakes, errors, and evidence of poor reasoning or judgment should not, however, be chargeable to them!)GVEGW 7.5

    —secretaries Dolores Wisbey, Lois Covarubbias, and Carol Pack, who worked their computer magic in word processing and formatting of materials for various successive reincarnations in print.GVEGW 7.6

    —General Conference graphics designer Irv Heller, for his helpful sketch illustrating Ellen White’s “platform” vision in chapter 3.GVEGW 7.7

    —D. A. Delafield, who provided, in the pilot presentation of Testimony Countdown III, a splendid vehicle for field-testing ideas and materials in a live audience situation at the Takoma Park (Maryland) Seventh-day Adventist Church on 10 Wednesday evenings, January 16 through March 20, 1991.GVEGW 7.8

    —printing craftsman Lee Belcher and his General Conference Duplication Services colleagues, who skillfully, promptly, and faithfully prepared and printed the 10 chapters of this book week by week as individual audience handouts for those attending Testimony Countdown III over a period of nearly three months.GVEGW 7.9

    —Raymond H. Woolsey, who took time from administrative responsibilities as vice president for book editorial at the Review and Herald to edit this manuscript.GVEGW 8.1

    —and to my wife, Irene, who settled for less husband than was her due, during the long and lonely hours of writing, rewriting, and final editing, often between 2:00 and 6:00 a.m., during weekends, and over holidays.GVEGW 8.2

    And so to all such, a hearty and fervent “Thank you!”GVEGW 8.3

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