Conflicts and Victory
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“One evening, after meditating upon the afflictions of brother
and sister white, their connection with the work of the third angel’s
message, and my own failure to stand by them in their affliction; and
after trying to confess my wrongs to the Lord, and imploring his
blessing upon brother and sister white, I retired to rest.
“I thought in my dream that I was in my native town, at the foot
of a long sidehill. I spoke with considerable earnestness and said:
‘Oh, that I might find that all-healing fountain!’ I thought a beautiful,
well-dressed young man came along and said very pleasantly: ‘I will
conduct you to the spring.’ He led the way, and I tried to follow. We
went along the hillside, passing with much difficulty three wet boggy
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places, through which small streams of muddy water were flowing.
There was no way to cross these only by wading. Having accomplished
this, we came to nice, hard ground and a place where there was a jog in
the bank, and a large spring of the purest sparkling water was boiling
up. A large vat was placed there, very much like the plunge tub at the
health institute at battle creek. A pipe was running from the spring
into one end of the vat, and the water was overflowing at the other.
The sun was shining brightly, and the water sparkled in its rays.
“As we approached the spring, the young man said nothing, but
looked toward me and smiled with an expression of satisfaction, and
waved one hand toward the spring, as much as to say: ‘don’t you think
that is an all-healing spring?’ Quite a large company of persons, with
brother and sister white at their head, came up to the spring on the
opposite side from us. They all looked pleasant and cheerful, yet a
holy solemnity seemed to be on their countenances.
“Brother white seemed greatly improved in health, and was cheer-
ful and happy, but looked tired as though he had been walking some
distance. Sister white had a large cup in her hand, which she dipped
into the spring, drinking of the water, and then passing it to the others.
I thought that brother white was addressing the company and saying
to them: ‘now you will have a chance to see the effects of this water.’
He then drank, and it instantly revived him, as it did all others who
drank of it, causing a look of vigor and strength in their countenances.
I thought that while brother white was talking and taking now and
then a draft of water, he placed his hands on the side of the vat and
plunged in three times. Every time he came up he was stronger than
before, but he kept talking all the while and exhorting others to come