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    Chapter 1—What Is a Compilation?

    What is a compilation? Webster defines compile: “To gather and put together (statistics, facts, etc.) in an orderly form.” “To compose (a book, etc.) of materials gathered from various sources.”CWAWAN 1.3

    The book The Great Controversy provides a case study of a compilation produced while Ellen White was alive. Mrs. White wrote the first little 219-page book on the great controversy between Christ and Satan as a result of the vision she was given at a funeral at Lovett’s Grove, Ohio, March 14, 1858. The devil struck her with paralysis to prevent her from writing out the vision, but she had a great deal of “stick-to-itiveness” and she worked at it a little at a time until her strength was restored, the paralysis dissipated, and the book was completed. It appeared as Spiritual Gifts, Volume 1.CWAWAN 1.4

    After the publication of Volume 2 in 1860, which was largely a biographical sketch, she wrote 21 chapters on Old Testament history from creation to the Exodus and the giving of the Law at Sinai. This material was published as Volume 3. She also wrote 16 chapters on the Israelites from Sinai to David and Solomon. These chapters, along with an article on health and a reprint of Testimonies 1-10, made up Volume 4 of Spiritual Gifts. The four books—clearly compilations—were printed in 1864.CWAWAN 1.5

    Next came four larger volumes titled Spirit of Prophecy, covering the same subject. (Available today in facsimile reprint.) They were printed in 1870, 1877, 1878, and 1884. As Ellen White was given more visions with greater detail, the great controversy story expanded into the five volumes of what is known today as “The Conflict of the Ages Series.” All were made up of materials originally written as books, articles, letters, and manuscripts. By definition they were compilations. “Compile: To compose (a book, etc.) of materials gathered from various sources.”CWAWAN 1.6

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