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Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

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a special session of the General Conference at<br />

Battle Creek, Michigan. He and his wife were<br />

separated for sixty-six days, until they met again on<br />

May 27 at the Kansas camp meeting. During this<br />

period she wrote her husband almost every day and<br />

occasionally to others.—Compilers.] This year I<br />

feel that my work is writing. I must be secluded,<br />

stay right here, and I must not let inclination or<br />

persuasion of others shake my resolution to keep<br />

closely to my work until it is done. God will help<br />

me if I trust in Him.—Letter 63, 1876. (To James<br />

<strong>White</strong>, March 25, 1876.)<br />

April 4.—We have been having company<br />

about every day for some days back, but I try to<br />

stick to my writing and do as much each day as I<br />

dare. I cannot write but one half of a day each<br />

day....<br />

Mary [is] in the office, I upstairs writing....<br />

I have had much freedom in prayer and sweet<br />

communion with God in my waking hours at night<br />

and early in the morning. I am gaining some<br />

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