Her standard work referred to, which has brought her in large royalties, is entitled, "The Great Controversy between God and Satan." It contains 704 pages and has run through numerous editions. The revised and enlarged edition, which I have almost exclusively used to show what the Seventh-Day Adventist teaching is, bears the date 1903, so it is an authoritative account of their system and teaching.
In the publisher's preface we read: " We believe that she has been empowered by a Divine illumination to speak of some past events which have been brought to her knowledge with greater minuteness than is set forth in any existing records, and to read the future with more than human foresight."
To go no further, this unwarrantable assumption will be sufficient to open the eyes of any sensible person. We have heard of those who, assuming the prophetic mantle, have pretended to read the unrevealed future, but never one who claimed to read the unrecorded past. It certainly makes one uneasy in reading any history narrated by her, for one does not know what is fact or what is fiction, what is sober history, or what is mere imagination not found in " any existing records." As to her ability to read the future with more than human foresight, the reader will have ample opportunity of judging.