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Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

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strength, but find that any taxation affects me<br />

seriously, so that it takes time to recover from it.<br />

My trust [is] in God. I have confidence that he will<br />

help me in my efforts to get out the truth and light<br />

he has given me to [give to] his people.—Letter 3,<br />

1876.<br />

April 7.—The precious subjects open to my<br />

mind well. I trust in God and he helps me to write.<br />

I am some twenty-four pages ahead of Mary. She<br />

does well with my copy. It will take a clear sense<br />

of duty to call me from this work to camp<br />

meetings. I mean to finish my writings on one<br />

book, at any rate, before I go anywhere.... The East<br />

will not see me for one year unless I feel that God<br />

calls me to go. He has given me my work. I will do<br />

it, if I can be left free.—Letter 4, 1876.<br />

April 8.—I have liberty in writing and I plead<br />

with God daily for counsel and that I may be<br />

imbued with his Spirit. I then believe that I shall<br />

have help and strength and grace to do the will of<br />

God....<br />

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