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The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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    Messages Of Power In Girlhood

    The special gift to help build up the cause was not in herself. This was seen from that first call in girlhood. It was not of herself, timid and shrinking, that there came a force that worked mightily in cooperating with the early leaders in building up a movement fulfilling the prophecy. One sees it in the first work the youthful instrument was called to perform. She says of those first steps:SPIAM 67.4

    “In my second vision, about a week after the first, the Lord gave me a view of the trials through which I must pass, and told me that I must go and relate to others what He had revealed to me.... After I came out of this vision I was exceedingly troubled, for it pointed out my duty to go out among the people and present the truth. My health was so poor that I was in constant bodily suffering, and to all appearance had but a short time to live....SPIAM 67.5

    “For several days, and far into the night, I prayed that this burden might be removed from me, and laid upon some one more capable of bearing it. But the light of duty did not change, and the words of the angel sounded continually in my ears, ‘Make known to others what I have revealed to you.’ ...How could I, a child in years, go forth from place to place, unfolding to the people the holy truths of God? ...My father ...repeatedly assured me that if God had called me to labor in other places, He would not fail to open the way for me.”—Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 69, 70.SPIAM 68.1

    So a young girl was soon out among groups of scattered believers in the second advent, joining older laborers in encouraging the people to hold fast to the “blessed hope.” It was a time of trial to many who had expected Christ to come at the end of the 2300-year prophetic period, in 1844. Multitudes had given up all faith in the soon coming of the Saviour. Winds of doctrine were blowing and eccentric and wild movements abounded.SPIAM 68.2

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