Spiritual Gifts Vol. I. The Great Controversy 1858

"Spiritual Gifts" was, and is, the general title of four of Ellen White's earliest published books. They were originally published as separate volumes with their individual subtitles: SPIRITUAL GIFTS. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY (1858); SPIRITUAL GIFTS. MY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE, VIEWS, AND LABORS (1860); SPIRITUAL GIFTS. IMPORTANT FACTS OF FAITH (1864); SPIRITUAL GIFTS. IMPORTANT FACTS OF FAITH: LAWS OF HEALTH AND Testimonies Nos. 1-10. (1864). For many years they have been combined, two volumes each, in two books as "SPIRITUAL GIFTS. VOLS. I-II & VOLS. III-IV. This present printing returns them to their original, separate book format, and presents them in large print; convenient for all ages. This volume I, written in 1858, is the earliest volume by Ellen White carrying the title "The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels." Though smaller in size than later versions, this edition contains numerous statements not found in the more expanded versions- an example: "The Sabbath was instituted in Eden before the fall, and was observed by Adam and Eve, and all the heavenly host. GOD rested on the seventh day, and blessed and hallowed it; and I saw that the Sabbath would never be done away; but the redeemed saints, and all the angelic host, will observe it in honor of the great Creator to all eternity." p 123, 124 (present volume, emphasis added).