Third Visit To Italy

Ellen White expected to spend two weeks in Italy, but when they got to Torre Pellice they discovered that a man named Cocorda was attempting to neutralize the work A. C. Bourdeau had just done with the evangelistic tent; Cocorda got his ammunition from Miles Grant, an Advent Christian. With opposition coming early in Ellen's first visit to Italy and repeated now, it seemed impossible to accomplish much.WV 243.3

She spoke in Torre Pellice on Sabbath and in Villar Pellice on Sunday. After remaining a few days, however, she saw that little could be accomplished. She and the Ingses started home toward Basel, spending two weeks on their journey, visiting churches in Lausanne and Bienne in Switzerland on their way.WV 243.4

She reached Basel Tuesday, November 23. She had been gone for 10 weeks. As she gave a report to G. I. Butler the next day, she wrote:WV 243.5

I have for weeks been exposed to fogs and rains and bad air in halls. I have talked in halls where it was sometimes very hot and the air was impure and then have gone out into a sharp, cutting air from the lakes, and taken cold again and again.... In two days, the twenty-sixth of this month, I shall be 59 years old. I thank my heavenly Father for the strength that He has given me to do more work than I ever expected to do. I thank the Lord with heart and soul and voice. I am thinking we may not feel obliged to remain here in Europe much longer (Letter 115, 1886).WV 243.6