Some would have had me believe that there was no Holy Spirit, and that all the exercises that holy men of God experienced, were only the effect of mesmerism or the deception of Satan. {LS 88.3} Those who had taken extreme views of certain texts of Scripture, refraining wholly from labor, and rejecting all who would not receive their ideas on this and other points pertaining to religious duty, charged me with conforming to the world. On the other hand, the nominal Adventists charged me with fanaticism, and I was falsely represented as the leader of the fanaticism which I was laboring constantly to arrest. {LS 88.4}

Nogle har taget yderliggående synspunkter til visse skriftsteder, afholder sig fra arbejde og afviser alle dem som ikke vil tage imod deres tanker om dette og på andre punkter angående religiøse pligter. Gud åbenbarede disse fejltagelser for mig i et syn og sendte mig til at belære hans børn; men mange af dem forkastede helt dette budskab og beskyldte mig for at tilpasse mig verden. På den anden side beskyldte, de efter navn såkaldte adventister, at være (89) fanatiske og jeg blev urigtigt fremstillet som anføreren af den fanatisme, som jeg hele tiden arbejdede på at standse.