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of Christian Temperance. God helped me that evening, and although I
spoke ninety minutes, the crowd of fully five thousand persons listened
in almost breathless silence.
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Visit to Indiana
August 9-14 I attended the camp meeting in Indiana, accompanied
by my daughter, Mary K. White. My husband found it was impossible
for him to leave Battle Creek. At this meeting the Lord strengthened
me to labor most earnestly. He gave me clearness and power to appeal
to the people. As I looked upon the men and women assembled here,
noble in appearance and commanding in influence, and compared
them with the little company assembled six years before, who were
mostly poor and uneducated, I could but exclaim: “What hath the Lord
wrought!”
Monday I suffered much with my lungs, having taken a severe
cold, but I pleaded with the Lord to strengthen me to make one more
effort for the salvation of souls. I was raised above my infirmity and
was blessed with great freedom and power. I appealed to the people to
give their hearts to God. About fifty came forward for prayers. The
deepest interest was manifested. Fifteen were buried with Christ in
baptism as the result of the meeting.
We had planned to attend the Ohio and Eastern camp meetings;
but as our friends thought that in my present state of health it would
be presumptuous, we decided to remain at Battle Creek. My throat
and lungs pained me much, and my heart was still affected. Being
much of the time a great sufferer, I placed myself under treatment at
the sanitarium.
Effects of Overwork
My husband labored incessantly to advance the interests of the
cause of God in the various departments of the work centering in
Battle Creek. His friends were astonished at the amount of labor he
accomplished. Sabbath morning, August 18, he spoke in our house
of worship. In the afternoon his mind was closely and critically exer-
cised for four consecutive hours, while he listened to the reading of
manuscript for Spirit of Prophecy, volume 3. The matter was intensely