Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

spoke twice and God helped me to speak, and then
I came here, and I have been speaking ever since I
came here.
Now you see I was afraid of all this, and I
didn't want to sacrifice my life, and so I said that I
couldn't come here. I couldn't come across the
plains. I was afraid. I nearly melted the tendons
during the cold weather when I was traveling,
because of a heated coil running right under where
I was lying on the way across from Australia. So I
said I couldn't come. Then they said they would
have the conference in Oakland. But in the night
season I was talking to you just as I am here today.
I was bearing a message night after night and night
after night, and then I would get up and write it out,
and I would get up at 12 o'clock, and 2 o'clock, and
write out the message that I had. And it was then,
while I was considering these things, that there
came messages from London, that they had hoped
they could see me and meet me, but now they
couldn't come so far, and it cost so much and I
heard it would cost from five to eight thousand
dollars more, and then I said, "We have got no such
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