A published statement which appeared in the Review and Herald Supplement of June 21, 1898, to the effect that a literal
darkness will cover the earth as a sign to God's people that probation has closed,
has been attributed wrongly to Ellen G. White. It was actually written by a
Seventh-day Adventist minister. Such teaching is contrary to her statement in
The Great Controversy, page 615, which reads: "When the irrevocable
decision of the sanctuary has been pronounced and the destiny of the world has
been forever fixed, the inhabitants of the earth will know it not."