EGW WritingsJeremiah 21

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 4 (1883 - 1886)

Ms 16a, 1885

4LtMs, Ms 16a, 1885, par. 39

It is a beautiful morning. We have no seasickness as yet. Last evening we enjoyed a beautiful sunset. The broad ocean was all that we could see surrounding us, and the sun went out of sight in the broad waters. We went into the dining room to attend services. Under the Episcopalian services, prayers were read, and chapters in the Old and New Testaments that were very appropriate for the occasion. The hymns sung were excellent in sentiment. The chapter read first was in Jeremiah. The second was in the New Testament in regard to the shipwreck of Paul. I wrote eight pages and prepared a reported article for the press. We were on deck most of the time.

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 21 (1906)

Ms 15, 1906

21LtMs, Ms 15, 1906, par. 16

“Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.” [Jeremiah 21:8.] Their ways shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness. They have caused My people to err with falsehoods and with deceptive fables, with false science and false tests. Many have become strangers to the covenant of promise. I the Lord have become wearied with their perversities, but I would not have My holy truth brought into disrepute and contempt by their departure from My law. I have put constraint upon Myself, but I will punish this thing when I shall have every case before Me. I have forborne to cut them down, to disown them; but I will visit their transgression with a rod.