Letter to the President of the General Conference October 8, 2013 Dear brother Wilson, Not long ago this appeared in the Adventist Review: OnThis Day (April 1) in 1901, before the formal opening of the General Conference session, Ellen White spoke to a specially called meeting of church leaders and urged a thorough reorganization of denominational administration. She proposed that: the General Conference Committee should represent all phases of the work; every institution should have a voice; the present Executive Committee should be relieved because it had accomplished little; the leading men should go out into the field to observe; there should be no kings in the work; and the gospel work and the medical work should be blended. _______________________ Here is what I would like to bring to your attention: In the right column of page 23 of the 1901 General Conference Bulletin, we read the following from Mrs. White: I feel a special interest in the movements and decisions that shall be made at this conference regarding the things that should have been done years ago, and especially ten years ago, when we were assembled in conference, and the Spirit and power of God came into our meeting, testifying that God was ready to work for this people if they would come into working order. The brethren assented to the light God had given; but there were those connected with our institutions, especially with the Review and Herald office and the Conference, who brought in elements of unbelief, so that the light that was given was not acted upon. It was assented to, but no special change was made to bring about such a condition of things that the power of God could be revealed among His people. The light then given me was that this people should stand higher than any other people on the face of the whole earth, that they should be a loyal people, a people who would rightly represent truth. The sanctifying power of the truth, revealed in their lives, was to distinguish them from the world.
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