Also, what appears to be his knowing and
purposeful perversions of passages which give support to possible, qualified
separationis stances taken by Ellen White and Scripture,is dishonest and
reprehensible. Has Vance committed a variation of the type of non-integral
actions of Charles Wheeling, by publishing Ellen White's works, and then giving
a perverted interpretation of them, in Vance's case by omissions of important
data? Let the reader read the following document and decide for him/herself.
P.O. Box 7109, T.M.C.,
Toowoomba, 4352
AUSTRALIA
March 5, 1987
Dear Vance Ferrell,
Early in 1986 we bought 3 cartons of
1884 Great Controversies from you. We believed your claim;" This is a
medium print reissue of the 1884 edition of the book, 'The Great Controversy
between Christ Satan'", but we were wrong to have trusted you.
Purely by accident, or perhaps in the
providence of God, we found a glaring difference from the original. This made
us check the whole book and found, to our amazement horror, 99 mistakes, made
up of 341 words deleted, 15 added 36 changed. These range from simple spelling
mistakes like "these" for "those", to from those who
receive your papers that you are aware of this it was the printer's fault you
are going to fix it.
May I ask how? How do you fix 30,000
blunders? How true were the first 10,000 you printed? What are we supposed to
do with the 1C books we still have left? We gave the others away in good faith
thinking you were an honest man.
We had better take off our rose-tinted
glasses and wake up to the fact that anyone who is so blind to teach that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church is going through to the Kingdom, could not
possibly be trusted to produce a true printing of 1884 Great Controversy. Why
do I say [about ] that?
Because that book above all books
written by Sr. White, teaches to come out of the SDA Church. Your first mistake
denies this truth. Page 15 of your book, page 32 of the original book; "A
voice from the east; a voice from the west; a voice from the four winds; a voice against Jerusalem and the temple; a
voice against the bridegroom and the bride; and a voice against all the
people." Now, how did you improve that one? Just leave out the bit against
the Church. Chop out "a voice against Jerusalem and the Temple."
That's not all. In chapter 22, Modern
Revivals, page 215 in your book, 295. in the original, you fail to quote 2
Timothy 3:4,5 in total as Sister White does. It's a pity because
"concerning them he says, "From such turn away," is good advice
from Paul for us today. Chop it out, says Ferrell.
Is that all? NO SIREEE! There are at least 22 deletions that alter the
separation message. If these are innocent printing errors, missing
words or blocks of words, please explain the blunder on page 34? of your book.
The original says, page 467, "Having been partakers of Christ's suffering
they are fitted to be partakers with him in his glory." Your chopping
block shortened and ruined that to: "Having been partakers of Christ's
glory." Not only does it not make sense, it removes a vital truth. It
proves that it's not just a block of
words missed because you substituted "Christ's" for "his".
Also, please explain why
"Father" Miller didn't make it to 1986's edition? Was that too old
fashioned? Or smacking too much of the Papacy? Maybe it's because it sounds too
much like the Philadelphian love where the small group would, look to William
Miller like a father. "He was indeed RIGHTLY called Father Miller for he
had a watchful care over those who came under his ministration, was
affectionate in his manner, and of genial tender heart." Vol. 1 S.O.T.
page 23. Don't you know that sort of brotherly love?
I feel it is a complete waste of time
and effort writing to you. You are worse than Uriah Smith, W.W. Prescott, and
the others who changed the Spirit of Prophecy writings. You have more light
than they, yet you pretend to reproduce a copy of the original 1884 G.C.
You know that the folk that subscribe to
your papers are trying to wake up out of the death-like slumber gripping the
S.D.A. Church. Just like Jesus bar Ananus [the old man who roamed Jerusalem for
seven years crying its woes], you are majoring in the Woe Woe Woes, yet will
not obey the command of Jesus Christ to leave Jerusalem, the S.D.A. Church.
"Let them which are in the midst of it depart out, and let not them that
are in the countries enter therinto." Luke 21:20. Jerusalem is the holy
city, the true church. (1884
G.C. p. 188). You left that one in but you left so many others out.
Why didn't you check out the printing yourself?
This is no ordinary book. It. is an inspired commentary 'on -Revelation. You
are subject to the curse of, Revelation 22:18~19. You have added and taken
away. You are a false shepherd and those who send you their holy tithe are
giving that which is holy to a dog.
I am going to do my best to warn others
about you and your deception. Surely Satan must have been thinking of you when
he said to keep the money in our own ranks. Well, we were fooled but now we are
well truly awake to your lies. We didn't check the appendix, perhaps that's
riddled with error too.
Your own words between pages 1718 are
just twaddle. Your dates for Cestius and Titus are wrong. Can't you get
anything right? You sure are a blind leader of the blind I just feel nothing
but revulsion for you and your work. [Ellen White says that we all are to do
things to the best of our ability. That would ESPECIALLY apply to doing the
Lord's work. rwb].
Here is a list of the bad mistakes in
your book:
Page 15..7 words deleted,
" 17..4 words deleted,
" 58..deleted "former" an
important word here.
" 63..deleted 9 important words.
" 74..deleted "daily"
just like today:
" 96..2O words out, your
conservative majority hate corporate responsibility.
" 129..Deleted 8 vital words for us
today.
" 168..Another 8 hot words hitting
the church.
" 170..Can't you quote the Bible
right? That's the definition of the true church.
" 180..25 words missing..we knew
you couldn't leave The Midnight Cry alone, could you?
" 189..25 words cut here too, too
bad about the Sanctuary truth.
" 190..deleted 11 words here, what
a mess!
" 215..chopped the power from
2Timothy 3:4,5.
" 217..8 words out in the
explanation of the new birth - sure is mangled.
" 223..Another 8 words about
repentance, just left out. Why couldn't you leave it alone?
Bad mistakes in your booklet continued:
Page 241..9 words deleted from Bible
quote.
" 244..10 words out about Jesus.
" 251..5 words about advancing-too
hot a subject
" 260..These 10 words deleted turn
this into blasphemy.
" 316..like the omission on page
58, you don't want us to leave our "former" brethren. You want us to
have love and unity in the lake of fire.
" 300..Were you stuck for space, 35
words cut out
" 347..You dropped 15 words out
here that tell us much about love forgiveness.
These are a sample of the deletions in
your book. There are many more, 358 words are altered in some way. I wouldn't
like to be in your shoes when the plagues begin to fall. It is such a pity that
so many men in leadership fail to tell the difference between sacred and common
fire.
Yours regretfully,
[signature]
Sue Wyborn.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Sue Wyborn said the
CHANGES made by Vance Ferrell are WORSE than those made by Uriah Smith.
ESPECIALLY in ADDING to every book = the NAMES of the SAINTS OF GOD. Not even the
SEALING ANGEL knows who these are - until he SEALS them! But VANCE and others
know AHEAD OF TIME! Forgetting that the "JUDGMENTS of MEN will be REVERSED
by the Majesty of Heaven. It was part of the WINE of BABYLON to put a Halo on
the Heads of the Saints. Called the "PERFECT" of the Church. GC
57(60). GC 59, 128, 237, 564.TM 47. RH A3:79.
[SAINTING a CORRUPT PEOPLE (1884 GC 421
(LEFT OUT of your GC 603.) is setting oneself up ABOVE the JUDGE of the
Universe. Is as MIND-WEAKENING as is "SPIRITUALISM!" Such cannot give
the Last Message. God will not accept them. EW 101,123,98-9. Having ERROR mixed
with TRUTH they would CONTINUE and so must be STOPPED! MM 89 to 98.
[As usual - no Date!]
Sue Wyborn
P.O. Box 7109, T.M.C.
Toowoomba 4352
AUSTRALIA
Dear Sister Wyborn -
Thank you so much for your note. This
letter may come to as a surprise, but please set aside your feelings and
consider it's message:
I need your help very much. Our studied
objective is to turn out Spirit of Prophecy that are as accurate as possible.
Apparently you have special ability along the line of locating mistakes, and
this is a genuine talent. I am personally asking that you help us with this
most excellent edition of "Great Controversy."-the 1884.
We retypeset it in order to provide it
in a larger, easier to read print size, and I too have been sorry when there
were mistakes. -But you seem to have unusual abilities in locating them, and
for this we are thankful.
This is my request:
I am enclosing a copy of our LATEST
edition of the 1884 GC, and am asking that you transfer all the error notations
from your copy to this one-and then mail it back to me by air mail. We will
correct them all. Do understand that it is very likely that a number of the
typographical errors that you found may have already been corrected in this
edition which I am enclosing with this letter.
Let me add that I am not writing this
letter to appease you. This is not so. From reading my tracts you should
recognize that I am not afraid of leadership, I am not afraid of people who
write angry letters disparaging me or my character.
But I sense here that, in actuality,
both you and I have the same objective-to see that good book gotten to the
people as error-free as possible. If, perchance, we are reconciled in the
process of working on these corrections together, then I will rejoice, but if
not, than that will be alright too.
Thanking you very much for your help
with this, I remain
Very sincerely,
Vance Ferrell
[followed by this handwritten note]
Please accept my apologies -
P.O. Box 7109, T.M.C.
Toowoomba, 4352.
9/4/87
Dear Vance Ferrell:
I have marked the mistakes in your
attempted copy of Ellen White's 1884 G.C. Please do not use flattery. I have no
special ability, neither has my husband and daughter. We simply spent our Sabbath
days reading 1884 G.C. one reading the original and the others reading your
attempted copy. We were determined to find out how many mistakes you had made
because we gave the holy tithe to you for those books. We have an account to
settle with all the people we gave the book to. Our righteous indignation rose
up when we saw what a poor job you did, and are still doing as this 1987
printing is still riddled with error.
We consider that book to be a great
treasure. Ellen White nearly died to give us that book. If ever a book teaches
to separate from apostate churches, it is that book. You are handling sacred
things so please produce a perfect copy, not one so full of errors.
Your apologies will be accepted when you
print a perfect copy. At least the ones who printed that book in the 1960's had
the respect to take great care of sacred things. I have seen a spiral bound
copy of 1884 G.C. with a beautiful preface by Klacina Fergusson that was a
credit to the publishers. They, of course, were despised 'off-shoots',
'reformers'; just like the Samaritans in the Bible- the only ones who practiced
the true health message, were thankful, and made the best missionaries. The
Jews couldn't even say the name 'Samaritan' without turning aside and spitting.
That is the same today of anyone who wears the label of 'off-shoot' or
'reformer'. Then when the White Estate finally prints a facsimile of the 1884
G.C. they have to put that suppliment in the back which is full of lies. It
says that Ellen White approved, of all the changes in the 1888 and 1911
editions of G.C. What a joke! She said not one word is changed or denied.
In the providence of God the people are
beginning to wake up and read the early books that were printed with care by
James White. Books like Spiritual Gifts, which has the truth that the church
has twisted all out of shape in 'early Writings', and Volume 4 of the
Testimonies. Uriah Smith is going to get a big surprise when he is awakened
after the 1000 years, or perhaps he will be included in the special ressurrection
with Caiaphas and Co. along with Froom and Anderson and those other Seventh-day
Adventists who wounded Jesus afresh by attacking the truth.
So please do not bungle the next
printing of the 1884 G.C. After 70,000 failures, your name may be added to the
list of those appointed to burn for their own sins if you do not correct your
errors.
Yours hopefully,
[signature of Sue Wyborn]
Here are the page numbers of your book
with errors:
Page...15,46,58,63,64,65,71,74,78,85,88,91,91,92,92,94,94,94,94,95,97,98,99,100,100,111,111,111,111,114,116,128,129,134,157,166,166,168,170,170,173,176,191,
203-4,204,206,213,215,217,223,241,244,249,252,271,288,301,316,320,324,344,347,
348,357,359,360,361,361,362.
[Note from Hoehn]
My! What a Switch! When "HOEN"
does it for over 50 Years = it becomes:
"FROM THE DEVIL!"
But when the WYBORNS pick it up = it
becomes ONE with VANCE!
It becomes: "GENUINE TALENT!"
"SPECIAL ABILITY!"
"UNUSUAL!"
MUSH! MUSH! MUSH!
SLOBBER! SLOBBER! SLOBBER!
Me thinks he protests too much! I also think
it will NOT work on SUE WYBORN.
She will take after HOEN if she has too!