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Called By God
and this tithe I will reserve for work in the same line as that of the ministers,
hunting for souls, fishing for souls. I know that the faithful women should be paid
wages as is considered proportionate to the pay received by ministers. They carry
the burden of souls, and should not be treated unjustly… .
7.5 Author’s note on Ellen White’s credentialing

From the time the Yearbooks began to be published with their lists of credentialed
ministers in 1884 until Ellen White’s life ended in 1915, she was listed as an
ordained minister.
In conversations several years ago leading up to the writing of this book, some
church administrators explained that while Ellen White was credentialed as an
ordained minister, there was never an ordination service at which she was set apart
for the ministry because the church leadership believed that she had been ordained
by God and did not need the earthly affirmation in the form of the laying on of
hands. It was suggested that she was credentialed as an ordained minister in order
to allow her to be paid the salary of an ordained clergyman.
However that may be, her status was for years that of an ordained minister. Her
ministerial license for 1885 has the word “ordained” lightly marked through, but
the license for 1887 states, “This is to Certify, that Mrs. E. G. White at Healdsburg
California is an Ordained Minister in good standing in the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists.”

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