The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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Chapter 3<br />
Is the “Baker Letter” Clear?<br />
1. Why did Ellen White write Letter 8, 1895<br />
to Elder Baker of New Zealand? Did she intend<br />
to discredit Jones's and Waggoner's view of the<br />
humanity of Christ (5BC 1128, 1129)?<br />
(a) <strong>The</strong> letter is not addressed to Jones or<br />
Waggoner, nor was it sent to them.<br />
(b) It does not mention Jones's and Waggoner's<br />
views by name or allude to them.<br />
(c) It does not condemn their views even remotely,<br />
only Baker's distortions of their views.<br />
(d) Had she intended to oppose Jones and<br />
Waggoner in their teachings of the nature of Christ,<br />
she knew well how to write letters to them. <strong>The</strong><br />
idea of her attempting to cut them down obliquely<br />
via Baker in Tasmania as a beating-around-thebush<br />
kind of rebuke is out of character to anyone<br />
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