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    O. A. Olsen to E. G. White, Mar. 10, 1892

    O. A. Olsen to E. G. White Mar. 10, 1892

    On returning East I find a large amount of work awaiting me, and. any amount of perplexities. I am so glad that it is my privilege to put my trust in God, and. to hope in his mercy. But I do have some sense of the great weight of responsibility that is resting upon me under the present circumstances. I am very thankful, more than I can express, for the instructive letters that you have written mo since you left for Australia. If it were not for these I should be perplexed beyond measure; but the instruction the Lord has given In this way is of great help to me, and shows me what I am to do in so many cases.MMM 183.1

    To-morrow morning our General Conference Committee will meet in counsel, also the Foreign Mission Board; and other committees and Boards will hold important meetings in connection with the Conference Committee. Our time is very limited, and it will be very difficult for us to do justice to the amount of work there is before us. But we hope to do the best we can under the circumstances. I have decided that we will have a devotional season every day. At this time we will engage in prayer, and I shall read, from time to time, some of the things that you have sent us. To these meetings I mean to invite all our leading brethren, as many as possible. I have thought that if we could have such meetings, and pray together, and talk over these things, and read the testimonies the Lord has sent us, it might be a source of much blessing. At present there is a somewhat strained condition of things. I have great respect for Brn. A. T. Jones, E. J. Waggoner, and Prof. Prescott, and believe that they have been the instrumentalities in the hands of God of doing much good. But in connection with their work there have been some extreme expressions used, and at timed extreme positions taken, which have not strengthened the good work that they were trying to do, but on the other hand it has given others an opportunity to criticize, which it seems to me might have been avoided. But somehow the enemy is so wily in his work, and in connection with the truth he would bring in things that would in a certain way neutralize the amount of good that mi nit otherwise be accomplished The positions that have been taken on healing, and some other matters, have brought about, as I have stated, quite a strained condition of things. I feel so very thankful for the testimonies that you have sent, and especially the one dated at Victoria, Australia, January 21, addressed to “The Brethren and Sisters Creek, and to all who need these words.” I think this testimony will have a great tendency to relieve the situation and will help the brethren that I have mentioned to understand how they can make their work more effectual for good, and will also show others the wrong course they are taking in their criticism and opposition. I presume you have noticed that there have been some articles in the “Review” of late that have been aimed to set things right; but how effectual they will be in doing so, it a question. They will no doubt have the tendency to confuse the minds of some, rather than to clear them up. I have been very sorry that these things have been so; but I hope that may be corrected, and not continue in this way. It is always the case that one extreme leads to another, and as you express it in one of your articles the devil would like to throw some into fanaticism and others into cold formalism and thus both would be secured for his own satanic purpose.MMM 183.2

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