About This Pamphlet

In 1933, only 18 years after Ellen White’s death, W. C. White and D. E. Robinson prepared the statement embodied in this pamphlet. Elder White was Mrs. White’s son and Secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate; Elder Robinson was for many years one of Ellen White’s secretaries, and in the early 1930’s assisted Elder White at the Elmshaven office. Though the document was issued nearly 50 years ago, it sounds as current as today’s newspaper, for it takes up and deals with many of the same questions that are being raised today about Ellen White’s literary work.BSRWEGW 1.1

The 27-page typewritten document was offered for sale for 25 cents. Just how many copies were produced and sold is not known. Apparently there was little demand for it, hence it dropped out of sight; but its existence has a bearing on the charge that the church has tried to cover up facts or suppress information.BSRWEGW 1.2

In only one respect does the document need updating: The authors underestimated the amount of material in Sketches from the Life of Paul that shows a likeness to the Conybeare and Howson book, Life and Epistles of the Apostle Paul. But this in no way undercuts the thrust of the very candid, remarkable statement produced and circulated nearly half a century ago.BSRWEGW 1.3

Herein is reproduced this timely and overlooked treatise in its entirety without change, except for the deletion of a long paragraph from Ellen White’s Introduction to The Great Controversy, 7. Punctuation and grammar have been left essentially unchanged. In the current milieu of discussion, the document may be read with profit.—The Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate, May 7, 1981.BSRWEGW 1.4