TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE MAJORITY OF THE LEADERS IN 1888 AND BEYOND ACCEPTED THE MESSAGE. LOOK AT THE QUOTE BELOW"
During this time frame of 1891-1900, Sister White moved to Australia. This seems like an odd time to move to the other side of the world, considering the pivotal theological dialogue taking place among the prominent SDA leaders and elders. Why did she make this decision? “The Lord was not in our leaving America. He did not reveal that it was his will that I should leave Battle Creek. The Lord did not plan this, but he let you all [the General Conference] move after your own imaginings. The Lord would have had W. C. White, his mother, and her workers remain in America. We were needed at the heart of the work, and had your spiritual perception discerned the true situation, you [O. A. Olsen, GC President] would never have consented to the movements made. But the Lord read the hearts of all. There was so great a willingness to have us leave, that the Lord permitted this thing to take place. Those who were weary of the testimonies borne were left without the persons who bore them. Our separation from Battle Creek was to let men have their own will and way, which they thought superior to the way of the Lord. ... It was not the Lord who devised this matter. I could not get one ray of light to leave America.” {The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials. Letter to O. A. Olsen, December
1, 1896. Chapter 187, p. 1622-3.}
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