Uriah Smith to Dudley M. Canright, 7 Aug 1883

Smith, Uriah 1832-1903

1883-08-07

Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

1 letter

Correspondence

English

Dear Bro. Canright: Your mailed yesterday is at hand. I inclose in this what I wrote to Bro. Waggoner on the question before us. The first part of the letter was on some criticisms of Hebrew words which you would not care to see. I have concluded to write a little for the "Supplement" for this reason: Those who write in the "Advocate Extra", most of them, manifest a spitefulness and bitterness of feeling which I cannot affiliate with, and do not wish to be considered as endorsing. In this I state, what I have told you, that I still hold that Sr. W. has been shown things in vision, and that this is a manifestation of spiritual gifts; but they do not stand on a level with the Scriptures, and should not be made a test of fellowship. I close by saying that they should manifest "more of that charity which the apostle sets forth as more desirable than all gifts, and without which even the best gifts are but as sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal." I am aware that what I have written will not materially help my case in regard to the testimonies; for it brings one into direct antagonism with what Sr. W. has last published about me, which the "Advocate" of course will not be slow to pick up. But I think Br. Green has prematurely set this ball rolling, and we shall not be likely to see so decisive steps taken at our next annual meetings as we should doubtless otherwise have seen. I should not have said anything, had not these men embarrassed the situation by rushing in and manifesting the spirit they do. Logically, my case cannot be let alone till I have acknowledged what Sr. W. wrote in our School troubles, which I have no evidence was or is vision, and as I write to Bro. W. I now have to discriminate between "testimony" and "vision". Well, I think I know myself as well as Sr. W. knows me. And I leave all these things in the hand of God, determined to seek to do his will here and find a place in his kingdom hereafter. Yours truly, U. Smith

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Canright, Dudley Marvin 1840-1919
Waggoner, Joseph Harvey 1820-1889
White, Ellen Gould Harmon 1827-1915

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