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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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