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her at Salamanca. She dressed, went to her bureau, took from it the
journal in which she had made the record of what had been shown to
her at Salamanca. As the scene came clearly to her mind, she wrote
more to go with it.
The ministers were just getting up from prayer in the tabernacle
as Mrs. White was seen coming in the door, a bundle of manuscripts
under her arm. The president of the General Conference was the
speaker, and he addressed her:
“Sister White,” he said, “we are happy to see you. Do you have a
message for us?”
“Indeed I do,” she said, and stepped to the front. Then she be-
gan right where she left off the day before. She told them that at
three o’clock that morning she had been aroused from her sleep and
instructed to go to the workers’ meeting at half-past five and there
present what had been shown to her at Salamanca.
“In the vision,” she said, “I seemed to be in Battle Creek. I was
taken to the Review and Herald office, and the angel messenger bade
me, ‘Follow me.’ I was taken to a room where a group of men were
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earnestly discussing a matter. There was a zeal manifest, but not
according to knowledge.” She told of how they were discussing the
editorial policy of the American Sentinel, and she said, “I saw one of
the men take a copy of the Sentinel, hold it high over his head, and say,
‘unless these articles on the sabbath and the second advent come out of
this paper, we can no longer use it as the organ of the Religious Liberty
Association.’” Ellen White spoke for an hour, describing the meeting
that had been shown to her in vision months before, and giving counsel
based upon that revelation. Then she sat down.
The president of the General Conference did not know what to
think of it. He had never heard of any such meeting. But they did not
wait very long for an explanation, for a man stood up in the back of
the room and began to speak:
“I was in that meeting last night.”
“Last night!” Sister White remarked, “Last night? I thought that
meeting took place months ago, when it was shown to me in vision.”
“I was in that meeting last night,” he said, “and I am the man who
made the remarks about the articles in the paper, holding it high over
my head. I am sorry to say that I was on the wrong side, but I take this
opportunity to place myself on the right side.” He sat down.