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The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

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flesh and blood, but against principalities and<br />

powers and spiritual wickedness in high places.<br />

But when men who claim to be faithful and true to<br />

all purposes engage with the enemy of God to<br />

hinder and confuse and perplex minds, and keep<br />

them on the side of the enemy as has been the case<br />

since I left Europe and stepped on American soil,<br />

how can the Lord look upon these things that so<br />

many have not worked on God's side of the<br />

question? How could the burden but be of crushing<br />

weight to my soul when God was opening before<br />

me the messages He would have come before the<br />

people? Under whose leadership were these<br />

professed soldiers of Jesus Christ doing service?<br />

<strong>The</strong>se things have grieved the Spirit of God and the<br />

words to Meroz were applicable to them.<br />

I have a message to the people. Urgent calls are<br />

coming to me from all directions, but I am lying<br />

crushed, a cart beneath sheaves and I can but feel<br />

deeply over these things. "It seems so strange that<br />

Sister <strong>White</strong> is laid upon a bed of suffering; why<br />

doesn't the Lord raise her to health?" is the<br />

question. I look with astonishment to the strength

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