Sister White, Were Others Sometimes With You When You Had Your Visions?

In 1846 my sister, Sister A., Brother Gurney, and myself started in a sailboat to visit a family on West’s Island. It was almost night when we started. We had gone but a short distance when a storm suddenly arose. It thundered and lightened, and the rain came in torrents upon us. It seemed plain that we must be lost, unless God should deliver.LASW 30.3

I knelt down in the boat and began to cry to God to deliver us. And there upon the tossing billows, while the water washed over the top of the boat upon us, I was taken off in vision and saw that sooner would every drop of water in the ocean be dried up than we perish, for my work had but just begun. After I came out of the vision all my fears were gone, and we sang and praised God, and our little boat was to us a floating Bethel.LASW 30.4

Brother Gurney had more than he could well do to manage the boat. He tried to anchor, but the anchor dragged. Our little boat was tossed upon the waves and driven by the wind, while it was so dark that we could not see from one end of the boat to the other. Soon the anchor held, and Brother Gurney called for help.LASW 31.1

There were but two houses on the island, and it proved that we were near one of them, but not the one where we wished to go. All the family had retired to rest except a little child, who heard the call for help upon the water. Her father soon came to our relief and, in a small boat, took us to the shore. We spent the most of that night in thanksgiving and praise to God for His wonderful goodness to us. ^{2Early Writings, 23, 24.}LASW 31.2