PLEASE CONSIDER THE QUOTES BELOW WHERE SIS WHITE SAID THE MESSAGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH WAS REJECTED AND DO NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN THE NEXT POST BELOW EXPLAINS THAT THE GOSPEL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN BY FAITH IS SADLY STILL REJECTED BY THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SDA.

MRS WHITE QUOTES ON THE 1888 MESSAGE REJECTION

“The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people through Elders 

Waggoner and Jones.” Ellen G. White, Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 

pg. 91.

This message was the long looked for Loud Cry as Ellen G. White again testifies.

“The time of test is just upon us, for the loud cry of the third angel has already begun in 

the revelation of the righteousness of Christ, the sin pardoning Redeemer. This is the 

beginning of the light of the angel whose glory y shall fill the whole earth.” 1SM, pg. 363.

(Emphasis supplied).

“It is the third angel’s message, which is to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and attended 

with the outpouring of His spirit in a large measure.” Ellen G. White, Testimonies to 

Ministers and Gospel Workers, pg. 92. (Emphasis supplied).

That the church rejected the message is the teachings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

“The true religion, the only religion of the Bible, that teaches forgiveness only through 

the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour, that advocates righteousness by the faith of 

the Son of God, has been slighted, spoken against, ridiculed and rejected. It has been 

denounced as leading to enthusiasm and fanaticism.” Ellen G. White, Testimonies to 

Ministers and Gospel Workers, pg. 468. (Emphasis supplied).

The Spirit of Prophecy also teaches that the ministers rejected the message, and led the 

church members to do so.

“I have tried to present the message to you as I have understood it, but how long will 

those at the head of the work keep themselves aloof from the message of God?” Review 

and Herald, March, 18th. 1890. (Emphasis supplied).

“If you do not see (the) light yourselves, you will close the door, if you can, you will 

prevent the rays of light from coming to the people. Let it not be said of this highly 

favored people, “They would not enter in themselves, and those who were entering they 

hindered…” No one must be permitted to close the avenue whereby the light of truth 

shall come to the people. As soon as this shall be attempted God’s Spirit will be 

quenched.” (Ellen G. White, Sermon at Minneapolis Conference, MS 15, 1888). 

Quoted from R. J. Wieland and D. K. Short, 1888 Re-Examined, pg. 35.

“Now I was saying what was the use of our assembling here together and for our 

ministering brethren to come in if they are here only to shut out the Spirit of God from 

the people?” (Ellen G. White, Sermon at Minneapolis Conference, October 24th. 

1888; MS 9, 1888). Quoted from R. J. Wieland and D. K. Short, 1888 Re-Examined, 

pg. 35.

“The very men who ought to be on the alert to see what the people of God need that the 

way of The Lord may be prepared, are intercepting the light God would have come to His 

people and rejecting the message of His healing Grace.” (Letter of Ellen G. White to 

Miller Brothers, July 23rd. 1889). Ibid. pg. 36.

What a serious situation, imagine, members had been trusting their souls to ministers, and 

it is the clergy itself that turned the people from the message. But why did the minister reject the message? Here is the answer Ellen G. White said.

“I saw that you willfully reject what you know to be truth, just because it was too 

humiliating to your dignity…” Review and Herald, May, 7th. 1892.

“In 1888 at the General Conference held in Minneapolis, Minn. The angel of Rev. 18:1 came down to do his work, and was ridiculed criticized and rejected. And when the 

message he brings again swells into a loud cry, it will again be ridiculed, spoken against 

and rejected by the majority.” Ellen G. White, Taking up a Reproach. (Emphasis 

supplied).

“There is to be in the churches a wonderful manifestation of the power of God, but it will 

not move upon those who have not humbled themselves before the Lord, and opened the 

door of their hearts by confession and repentance. In the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God they will see something which will arouse 

their fears, and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work 

according to their expectations and ideas they will oppose the work. ‘Why,’ they say, 

‘should we not know the Spirit of God when we have been in the work for so many 

years?” Ellen G. White, Bible Training School, May, 1907.