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A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

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sentiments, in <strong>the</strong> main, are obtained from previous<br />

teaching, or study. I do not by any means think her<br />

visions are like some from <strong>the</strong> devil."<br />

However true this extract may be in relation <strong>to</strong><br />

reveries, it is not true in regard <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> visions: for<br />

<strong>the</strong> author does not "obtain <strong>the</strong> sentiments" of her<br />

visions "from previous teaching or study." When<br />

she received her first vision, Dec. 1844, she and all<br />

<strong>the</strong> band in Portland, Maine, (where her parents<br />

<strong>the</strong>n resided) had given up <strong>the</strong> midnight-cry, and<br />

shut door, as being in <strong>the</strong> past. It was <strong>the</strong>n that <strong>the</strong><br />

Lord shew her in vision, <strong>the</strong> error in<strong>to</strong> which she<br />

and <strong>the</strong> band in Portland had fallen. She <strong>the</strong>n<br />

related her vision <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> band, and about sixty<br />

confessed <strong>the</strong>ir error, and acknowledged <strong>the</strong>ir 7th<br />

month experience <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong> work of God.<br />

It is well known that many were expecting <strong>the</strong><br />

Lord <strong>to</strong> come at <strong>the</strong> 7th month, 1845. That Christ<br />

would <strong>the</strong>n come we firmly believed. A few days<br />

before <strong>the</strong> time passed, I was at Fairhaven, and<br />

Dartmouth Mass., with a message on this point of<br />

time. At this time, Ellen was with <strong>the</strong> band at<br />

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