A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

captive by the delusions of Satan. These two
classes are brought to view in the vision, -those
who declared the light which they followed, a
delusion, and the wicked of the world who, having
rejected the light, had been rejected of God. No
reference is made to those who had not seen the
light, and therefore were not guilty of its rejection.
"In order to prove that I believed and taught the
shut door doctrine, Mr. ----gives a quotation from
the Review of June 11, 1861, signed by nine of our
prominent members. The quotation reads as
follows:
"'Our views of the work before us were then
mostly vague and indefinite, some still retaining
the idea adopted by the body of Advent believers in
1844 with William Miller at their head, that our
work for "the world" was finished and that the
message was confined to those of the original
Advent faith. So firmly was this believed, that one
of our number was nearly refused the message, the
individual presenting it having doubts of the
possibility of his salvation because he was not in
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