South Lancaster, Thursday, October 23, 1890

[On this date Ellen White wrote a 4-page letter to Brethren Fulton and Burke (Letter 9c, 1890), and urged them to defer erecting a new building at St. Helena Sanitarium in order to be able to help the Pacific Press.]

Slept well last night and my heart is drawn out to God in earnest prayer for His light and His counsel. I know I want to do those things that are pleasing in His sight. I want God's way, not my way; God's will, not my will. I surrender myself wholly to the Lord.MR1033 11.7

Calls are being made: We need your help in our churches in Michigan, and we need your help in the State of Maine. We need your help in the New England Conference. We need your testimony right here in Lancaster. May the good Lord let His voice be heard, “This is the way; walk ye in it.” Of one thing I am sure: I need One who is too wise to err to grant me His presence and to go before me wherever I go or all my efforts will be useless....MR1033 12.1

I am now speaking once and frequently twice each day and doing much writing, and I am sleeping well nights. Sister McEnterfer and I rode to Clinton. It was a most beautiful day. In the afternoon Sister Harris and I rode out four miles and gathered barberries.—Manuscript 42, 1890, 16-17 (Diary 16, pp. 247-248).MR1033 12.2