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Sketch of Experience
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After returning home, I sent to her for a copy of the testimony,
and on the 15th of April received the following, dated at Denmark,
April 11, 1868: “Sister White: Yours of the 23d ult. Is at hand. Am
sorry I cannot comply with your request.”
I shall still cherish the tenderest feelings of regard for this family,
and shall be happy to help them when I can. It is true that such
treatment from those for whom I give my life casts a shade of
sadness over me; but my course has been so plainly marked out for
me that I cannot let such things keep me from the path of duty. As
I returned from the post office with the above note, feeling rather
depressed in spirit, I took the Bible, and opened it with the prayer
that I might find comfort and support therein, and my eye rested
directly upon the following words of the prophet: “Thou therefore
gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command
thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before
them. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, and an
iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings
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of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and
against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee; but
they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord,
to deliver thee.”
Jeremiah 1:17-19
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We returned home from this tour just before a great fall of rain
which carried off the snow. This storm prevented the next Sabbath
meeting, and I immediately commenced to prepare matter for
Tes-
timony
No. 14. We also had the privilege of caring for our dear
Brother King, whom we brought to our home with a terrible injury
upon the head and face. We took him to our house to die, for we
could not think it possible for one with the skull so terribly broken
in to recover. But with the blessing of God upon a very gentle use
of water, a very spare diet till the danger of fever was past, and
well-ventilated rooms day and night, in three weeks he was able
to return to his home and attend to his farming interests. He did
not take one grain of medicine from first to last. Although he was
considerably reduced by loss of blood from his wounds and by spare
diet, yet when he could take a more liberal amount of food he came
up rapidly.
About this time we commenced labor for our brethren and friends
near Greenville. As is the case in many places, our brethren needed