The following paragraph is quoted from a manuscript entitled, “The Time of the End,” written Oct. 9, 1903. File No. MS—122—’03: PC 18.3
God may spare my life, that I may still work in His cause. Physically, I have always been as a broken vessel; and yet in my old age the Lord continues to move upon me by His Holy Spirit to write the most important books that have ever come before the churches in the world. The Lord is evidencing what He can do through weak vessels. The life that He spares I will use to His glory. And, when He may see fit to let me rest, His messages shall be of even more vital force than when the frail instrumentality through whom they were delivered, was living. - PC 18.4