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Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

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could more freely speak upon the happiness and<br />

miseries of married life. With this consideration, I<br />

closed up <strong>Volume</strong> IV [Aug. 23, 1864], that it might<br />

be scattered among the people. I reserved some<br />

important matter in regard to health, which I had<br />

not strength or time to prepare for that volume, and<br />

get it out in season for our [1864] Eastern journey.<br />

Written Independent of Books or Opinions of<br />

Others<br />

That which I have written in regard to health<br />

was not taken from books or papers. As I related to<br />

others the things which I had been shown, the<br />

question was asked, “Have you seen the paper, The<br />

Laws of Life or the Water Cure Journal?” I told<br />

them No, I had not seen either of the papers. Said<br />

they, “What you have seen agrees very much with<br />

much of their teachings.” I talked freely with Dr.<br />

Lay and many others upon the things which had<br />

been shown me in reference to health. I had never<br />

seen a paper treating upon health.<br />

After the vision was given me, my husband was<br />

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