A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

ut will make a statement of a few facts well
known by the friends in the East. I will first give an
extract of a letter from a beloved brother, who has
stated I doubt not, his honest views in relation to
the visions.
"I cannot endorse sister Ellen's visions as being
of divine inspiration, as you and she think them to
be; yet I do not suspect the least shade of
dishonesty in either of you in this matter. I may
perhaps, express to you my belief in the matter,
without harm - it will, doubtless, result either in
your good or mine. At the same time, I admit the
possibility of my being mistaken. I think that what
she and you regard as visions from the Lord, are
only religious reveries, in which her imagination
runs without control upon themes in which she is
most deeply interested. While so absorbed in these
reveries, she is lost to every thing around her.
Reveries are of two kinds, sinful and religious.
Hers is the latter. Rosseau's, "a celebrated French
infidel," were the former. Infidelity was his theme,
and his reveries were infidel. Religion is her theme,
and her reveries are religious. In either case, the
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