Unwise Leaders Do Not Speak for God
The voice from Battle Creek, which has been regarded as authority in counseling how the work should be done, is no longer the voice of God.
17MR 185 (1896).
It has been some years since I have considered the General Conference as the voice of God.
17MR 216 (1898).
That these men should stand in a sacred place, to be as the voice of God to the people, as we once believed the General Conference to be--that is past.
GCB April 3, 1901, p. 25.
Ellen G. White writings.