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Life Sketches of Ellen G. White
It was early in December, 1914, also, that she testified to hearing
voices in the night season, crying out: “Advance! Advance! Advance!
Press the battle to the gate!”
While eager to continue her work, and especially desirous of speak-
ing again in public, Mrs. White knew that her strength was gradually
failing, and that she must not presume on her waning energies. This
was a real trial to her, yet she felt resigned to the Lord’s will. Hear her
praying around the family altar at set of sun, Sabbath, December 26,
1914, following petitions by Elder E. W. Farnsworth and others:
“Thou wilt answer our petitions; and we ask Thee, Lord, for
Christ’s sake, if it is Thy will, to give me strength and grace to con-
tinue; or, I am perfectly willing to leave my work at any time that Thou
seest best. O Lord, I greatly desire to do some things, Thou knowest,
and would be willing to do them if Thou wilt give me strength; but we
will make no complaint; because Thou hast spared my life so much
longer than many anticipated and than I have anticipated myself....
Give us light; give us joy; give us the great grace that Thou hast in
store for the needy. We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.”
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Feebler and still feebler grew the physical frame; but the spirit was
courageous ever. In conversation with Dr. David Paulson on January
25, 1915, Mrs. White said: “The Lord has been my helper, the Lord
has been my God, and I have not a doubt. If I could not realize that He
has been my guide and my stay, do tell me what I could trust in. Why,
I have just as firm a trust in God that He will stand my feet on Mount
Zion, as that I live and breathe; and I am going to keep that trust till I
die.”
When, on the 27th of January, 1915, her son, W. C. White, returned
home after a four months’ absence in the East and the South, she was
apparently as strong as when he had left. She was still enjoying a good
degree of comfort, healthwise, and was able to be about. Some two
weeks later, only the day before she was stricken, she spent a little time
walking in the yard with him, and conversing on the general interests
of the cause of God.
It was on Sabbath day, February 13, 1915, that Mrs. White met
with the accident that confined her to her couch thereafter and hastened
her death. As she was entering her study from the hallway, about noon,
she apparently tripped, and fell. Her niece, Miss May Walling, who
for a time had been acting as her nurse, was close by in the hallway,