Chapter 20—Summer, 1845

Marion Truesdail Recalls Ellen White’s Attitude in 1845 Toward Conversions.

George I. Butler wrote in 1885:SDD 14.1

We next present an extract from a statement written by Marion C. Truesdail, and signed by herself and five others: “During Miss Harmon’s (now Mrs. White) visit to Paris, Me., in the summer of 1845, I stated to her the particulars of a dear friend of mine whose father had prevented her attending our meetings; consequently she had not rejected light. She smilingly replied, ‘God never has shown me that there is no salvation for such persons. It is only those who have had the light of truth presented to them and knowingly rejected it.’ Miss Harmon’s reply coincided with my ideas of a shut door, and in justice no other could be derived from it.”—The Review and Herald, April 7, 1885, p. 217.