Section 71—Counsels to People with Moral Problems

Section 71—Counsels to People with Moral Problems

1[This section contains personal testimonies directed mostly to ministerial and institutional workers in the nineteenth-century Seventh-day Adventist Church. Ellen White designed that her counsel to specific individuals should benefit others as well, where similar conditions existed. She wrote: “When the Lord singles out individual cases and specifies their wrongs, others, who have not been shown in vision, frequently take it for granted that they are right, or nearly so. If one is reproved for a special wrong, brethren and sisters should carefully examine themselves to see wherein they have failed and wherein they have been guilty of the same sin.... In rebuking the wrong one, he designs to correct many .... He makes plain the wrongs of some that others may thus be warned, and fear, and shun those errors.”—Testimonies for the Church, 2:112, 113. Concerning the large number of letters in this section that are addressed to ministers of the gospel, the reader is referred to the Preface.]