A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

saw only a very few of the events of the future.
More recent views have been more full. I shall
therefore leave out a portion and prevent
repetition." [3]
Thus, in the first edition of the first E. G. White
book, purporting to be only a "sketch," Mrs. White
informed her readers that she was not including all
of that which had appeared in earlier published
accounts of these visions. A fuller presentation of
scenes regarding which but very brief reference has
been made in her first visions was given in later
chapters of the book, and was set forth by her as
the reason for these omissions. We offer two
illustrations of this.
Near the center of page 16 of A Word to the
"Little Flock" is found a statement describing the
temple in heaven and that which was viewed by
Mrs. White in this temple. This statement is one
which was omitted when she prepared the matter
for her first book, for it is a close repetition in
many respects of the description given on page 18,
now found on pages 32 and 33 of Early Writings.
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