Sermons and Talks, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

might have drawn their part of the load and been of
important service, but when they rushed in ahead
of the leading horses they were not drawing the
load and were in the way, hindering the other
horses from working.
I thought my husband struck these horses
sharply with the whip. One turned to him, and said,
“Don't strike so hard; you cut deep. We had zeal to
start this load and we thought no one could start it
but us. We see we have not moved it, but hindered
its moving, but a check was all we needed, not to
be cut on like balky horses. We will fall back on
our traces and draw with the rest.”
I awoke, and fell asleep the same night, and
dreamed that my husband was trying to right
matters in the church at Battle Creek. There was
difficulty. There were two or three that thought
they had wisdom to bring the church into good
working order. They wished to rearrange the
church, and then they said it would be free. These
men and women had a machine of their own to
work, but the machine of each was united with a
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