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How true. In regards to 1919, the way I understand it is that there were those in our church leadership who wanted this information known, but others had been rejecting this information and blinding their eyes to it and attacking those who were pushing the issues, leading to the 1922 General Conference. But for example, Stephen Haskell was a very close friend of Mrs. White. However you find that they were in major disagreement in how inspiration worked. Haskell being a fundamentalist, and Mrs. White bringing up the same issues later brought up in 1919. Both were frustrated that they could not convince the other of their view, yet remained cordial towards each other. Sadly, after Mrs. White died, Haskell had the same conversation with Willie, with Willie saying the same things that his mom told to Haskell, but Haskell was not as cordial to Willie. Haskell strongly believed his understanding of how inspiration worked, including trying to teach Mrs. White how God was using her and rejecting what she was saying about how inspiration worked. Same with others, there was not so much a shutting up to protect their jobs (I'm sure there was some) but there was also strong ideas who did not believe the evidence.

I can tell you how I react to the 1919 Bible Conference. They asked some good question then shut up to protect their jobs. So really bureaucracies have not changed since then. I also don't use the word liberal in politics anymore. It used to mean too many things. Classical liberalism would be what we call today libertarian. Then in the Progressive era the leftist called themselves progressive. After causing abundant harm to the country they called themselves liberal to run away from the term progressive. Then once they had sullied liberal up a good bit they went back to progressive. When a group is constantly changing the language you soon learn that they only try to protect their cause and to do that they must constantly redefine words and themselves. In politics conservative have always maintained the same definition of conserving the constitutional foundations of the country. Such terms are only useful within a particular country as the starting points are different in different countries. Hence a Russian conservative seeks to conserve a communist government.

I should probably explain: In his early days, Walter Rae presented himself as one who almost thought that God had dictated the words that Ellen White wrote and therefore was totally without error. When Rae was forced to admit error in her works, he went totally 180 degrees in the opposite direction. During those early days, I kept track of Rae and what he was writing. I do not mean to say that I agreed with him. I did not.