Physical Effects

And what was the effect on Mrs. White physically? And, indeed, what was the effect upon the four dear women who had been with her praying? In an unpublished manuscript she wrote many years later, reminiscing on the experience, she said:WBEGW 85.2

“They thought that I was dead, and there they watched and cried and prayed so long, but to me it was heaven, it was life, and then the world was spread out before me and I saw darkness like the pall of death.WBEGW 85.3

“What did it mean? I could see no light. Then I saw a little glimmer of light and then another, and these lights increased and grew brighter, and multiplied and grew stronger and stronger till they were the light of the world. These were the believers in Jesus Christ....WBEGW 85.4

“I never thought that I should come to the world again. When my breath came again to my body, I could not hear anything. Everything was dark. The light and glory that my eyes had rested upon had eclipsed the light and thus it was for many hours. Then gradually I began to recognize the light, and I asked where I was.WBEGW 85.5

“‘You are right here in my house,’ said the owner of the house.WBEGW 85.6

“‘What, here? I here? Do you not know about it?’ Then it all came back to me. Is this to be my home? Have I come here again? Oh, the weight and the burden which came upon my soul.”—Ellen G. White Manuscript 16, 1894.WBEGW 85.7