Iwas a photographer at the Review and Herald Publishing Association. 'I believe it was just around the new year of 1979-80. What happened to the last pages of the letter-w ere they so bad that they had to be discarded? Note: The last pages of the letter are missing. Adventist apologists can no longer say that Ellen G. Uncovering the truth has never been encouraged by Adventist leaders-look at Rae, Ford, Veltman, Ron Numbers and more.

This has been the history of Adventism, to hide, lie and cover up the truth of Adventist history. Does this remind anyone of the 1919 Bible Conference records that were hidden 55 years till 1974, when found by Donald Yost. From 1847 till 1980 is 133 years of deception. Robert Olsen's confession only came when the Bates' letter was uncovered. 'Ellen misinterpreted this vision…But she incorrectly concluded that no one could accept Christ after October 22, that only the little flock remaining in the household of faith would be saved, and that everyone else would be lost.' One Hundred and One Questions, 1980, p. This letter was put back in the White Estate vault after 1915 untill it was uncovered by Skip Baker in 1980, and later published in Adventist Currents in July 1984. The White Estate had full knowledge of the fact that Ellen believed in the shut door from her visions. (At this point in time the shut door doctrine was understood to teach that the door of mercy was closed to the whole world after October 22, 1844.)Īnother example of deception is found in Life Sketches, published in 1915, p.104, where the publishers show a photograph of page one of the Bates' letter showing EGW's own handwriting. White against the charge that she taught shut door doctrine, totally ignored the fact that Ellen did believe in the shut door as revealed in the 1847 Bates' letter. Why didn't Nichol's print this letter? Because he was attempting to defend Ellen G. White to Joseph Bates, written from Gorham, Maine, July 13, 1847.' 'This date is established by a letter from Mrs. This letter proves EGW did not get her visions from God, and that the door of mercy was never closed to the world as taught by William Miller and confirmed by EGW's vision.įrom the book, Ellen G. An 1847 hand-written letter by EGW would be a letter they could not refuse to read or ignore, especially since EGW was being accused of believing in the shut door by vision after 1845. Adventist Presidents and leaders had access to this letter and cannot plead ignorance to its existence. White (EGW) believed in the shut door after 1845. The complete Bates letter had been hidden from the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church-only the parts of the letter that weren't damaging were available until 1980 when the complete letter was finally uncovered.Īdventist leaders did not want to let members know that Ellen G.

Ellen white estate on the baker letter