The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland

and still be sinless (ibid., p. 62).
2. Is there evidence that this teaching was
presented at the Minneapolis Conference itself?
From Waggoner's widow's recollections of the
1888 Conference, L. E. Froom informs us that she
took his studies down in shorthand and transcribed
them as Signs editorials in the weeks immediately
after the 1888 Session ended (MD, p. 200). There
is no reason to doubt her testimony, for she was an
eyewitness and was involved. The following
statements appeared in a Signs editorial by "E. J.
W." on January 21,1889. He could hardly have
unpacked his suitcases after attending the
Minneapolis Session before writing:
A little thought will be sufficient to show
anybody that if Christ took upon Himself the
likeness of man, ... it must have been sinful man
that He was make like, for it is only sin that causes
death.... Christ took upon Himself the flesh, not of
a sinless being, but of sinful man, that is, that the
flesh which He assumed had all the weaknesses
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