46. Burden For Souls

Recollections of former housekeeperPPP 233.1

“’I worked for Mrs. White in 1900, as housekeeper. Night after night, in the early morning hours, I was awakened by Mrs. White’s voice in prayer. I heard her praying for Mr. Blank, entreating God not to let him go, to hold him, and save him.’”—cited in W. A. Spicer, The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement, 1937, p. 64.PPP 233.2

Recollection of Marian Davis-EGW’s “bookmaker”PPP 233.3

“The burden she [EGW] feels when the case of an individual is presented before her, the intense pressure under which she works, often rising at midnight to write out the warnings given her, and for days, weeks and even months, writing again and again concerning it, as if she could not free herself from the feeling of responsibility for the soul,-no one who has known anything of these experiences, could believe that she could intrust to another the writing of a testimony.”-Written by Marian Davis to G. A. Irwin, April 23, 1900 [in context of Fannie Bolton’s claims that she had written some of Ellen White’s books]; quoted in The Fannie Bolton Story, A Collection of Source Documents, 1990, p. 91.PPP 233.4