The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

10. How is Ellen White's The Desire of Ages
related to the 1888 concepts of the nature of
Christ?
It is very closely related. She wrote it in the
decade after 1888. It contains a number of very
clear statements which support the Jones and
Waggoner concept (cf. pp. 49, 68-70, 112,117,
208, 329, 336, 363). Very strong statements also
appear in YI June 2, Aug. 4, Sept. 8, Oct. 13, 1898;
ST June 9, 1898; and Letter 97, 1898.
She seems at that time to have been almost
obsessed with the parallels between the history of
the Jews and our 1888 history. She speaks of this in
a series of articles in the R&H from January to
April, 1890:
Letters have been coming in to me, affirming
that Christ could not have had the same nature as
man, for if he had, he would have fallen under
similar temptations.... I feel like fleeing from the
place lest I receive the mold of those who cannot
candidly investigate... the evidence of a positon
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