Chapter 2—The Randolph Vision “A Large Bible” Winter 1845-1846

Let us direct our attention now to the winter of 1845-1846. Ellen Harmon had now been a prophetess for about one year, her first vision having come in December 1844, a short time after her seventeenth birthday. She had been slowly enlarging the sphere of her influence; invitations began to trickle in from companies of ex-Millerites, here and there, who were eager to see and hear firsthand the amazing experience of this young woman.GVEGW 25.1

But travel in the mid-1840s was fraught with difficulties. Awed by the enormity of the undertaking, she wrote: “The work looked great, and the trials severe.”GVEGW 25.2