Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

than any palace or hotel car I ever saw. The track was level, smooth, and firm. Thetrain was filling up with passengers whose countenances were cheerful and happy, yetwore an expression of assurance and solemnity. All seemed to express the greatestsatisfaction at the change which had been wrought, and the greatest confidence in thesuccessful passage of the train. Brother and sister white were on board this time, theircountenances lit up with holy joy. As the train was starting, I was so overjoyed thatI awoke, with the impression on my mind that that dream referred to the church atbattle creek and matters connected with the cause there. My mind was perfectly clearin regard to my duty to go to Battle Creek and lend a helping hand in the work there.Glad am I now that I have been here to see the blessing of the Lord accompanying thearduous labors of brother and sister white in setting things in order.“J. N. Loughborough.”Before we left Monterey, Brother Loughborough handed me the following accountof another dream which he had about the time of the death of his wife. This was also amatter of encouragement to me.“‘The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream.’ Jeremiah 23:28.“One evening, after meditating upon the afflictions of brother and sister white,their connection with the work of the third angel’s message, and my own failure tostand by them in their affliction; and after trying to confess my wrongs to the Lord, andimploring his blessing upon brother and sister white, I retired to rest.“I thought in my dream that I was in my native town, at the foot of a long sidehill.I spoke with considerable earnestness and said: ‘Oh, that I might find that all-healingfountain!’ I thought a beautiful, well-dressed young man came along and said verypleasantly: ‘I will conduct you to the spring.’ He led the way, and I tried to follow. Wewent along the hillside,602