Graham Maxwell was repeatedly surprised at how he could submit his writings for publication and even his editors would be puzzled as to how the tiny word ‘not’ would be left out in the finished publication, completely changing his original intended meaning.
Jones mentioned a similar phenomena to the GC session in 1893
( see bold for the point, shy for the context):
“Here is another word that teaches the same point that we had last night in our lesson, to receive the word of God just as it is, just as He says it, with no question of our own. Brother Starr says that he was talking with Sister White one day about the angels at Mt. Sinai at the giving of the law, and he says this:”
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.5}
" ‘She saw that the angels, ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, surrounded the people of God as they assembled around the mountain, and all above them, thus making a great living tabernacle from which every evil angel was excluded that not one word that was to come from the voice of Jesus should be altered in any mind or one suggestion of doubt or evil to a soul be made.’ "
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.6}
“Now that is what we want here. [Congregation: “Amen.”] What we want right here is for each one to just put up his own prayer himself, for himself, to the Lord to cover us with such a canopy as that at this Institute that when the words of the Lord are read not one word shall be altered in any mind from just what God speaks and that not one suggestion of doubt or evil shall come to a single soul, but that we, each one, may receive just what the Lord says in His own way, as He says it and as he means it.”
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.7}
Then further from Brother Starr:-
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.8}
" ‘In a late testimony to an individual here, Sister White was forbidden to send it to him in writing but to read it personally, for the reason that evil angels are at work substituting words for those that are written. Other words are pronounced in his ears and he gets a meaning just opposite from that designed of God.’ "
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.9}
“Well if that man needs that, is he the only one in the world that needs it? If Satan is working that way, is he going to confine himself to Australia? Then don’t you and I need to have our ears anointed as well as our eyes, that we may hear? And does not that word of Jesus, “Take heed how ye hear,” come to us?”
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 377.10}
“Then another instance there:
A brother had been carried away by connection with secret societies and had gone through with them until he was about ready to take the highest degree.”
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 378.1}
“A testimony came for him. God presented his case to her as a man just upon the brink of a precipice to whom it was dangerous to call out even. Sister White asked the Lord what she could do for him, and as she prayed, the angel said, "Give him ( Note: in person ) the pass word. Give him the pass word into the heavenly society,
‘Jesus Christ and Him crucified.’” "
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 378.2}
“What is the pass word into the heavenly society? [Congregation: “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”] That is the only thing that you and I have any business to know anything about. That is His message to the world, “Jesus Christ and Him crucified”; that is the passport.” {February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 378.3}
“Now turn again to Romans 4th chapter. We want to read of the righteousness of God and while we read of this righteousness of God, we want to receive it just as the Lord has spoken it. Don’t forget now, we want that canopy of angels over us and around us, that no word may be perverted to our understanding.
We want to receive it just as he gave it.”
{February 24, 1893 ATJ, GCDB 378.4}
. . . and Ellen not only personally delivered the password into the heavenly society, but stunned that Freemason-SDA by unwittingly giving him secret hand signals known only to Freemasons, during her personal visit. . . . Wish I could see that video !