5. Counsel for similar situations:

There were times when counsel was sought when there had been no direct revelation. Frequently she wrote, basing what she said on earlier similar situations. For example, in 1885, while she was in Europe, church leaders asked for guidance on religious liberty. She replied:HPEGWW 17.3

You inquire in regard to the course which should be pursued to secure the rights of our people to worship according to the dictates of our own conscience. This has been a burden of my soul for some time, whether it would be a denial of our faith and an evidence that our trust was not fully in God. But I call to mind many things God has shown me in the past in regard to things of a similar character, as the draft and other things. I can speak in the fear of God, it is right we should use every power we can to avert the pressure that is being brought to bear upon our people.—Letter 55, 1886. (In Selected Messages 2:334-335.) (Emphasis supplied.)

Another illustration comes from a letter which was written in 1893 to a man who had become involved with the “loud cry” movement with its message that the Seventh-day Adventist church was Babylon. She wrote:HPEGWW 18.1

This matter has been brought before my mind in other cases where individuals have claimed to have messages for the Seventh-day Adventist church, of a similar character, and the word has been given me “Believe them not. I have not sent them, and yet they ran.”—Selected Messages 2:63-64.