20 A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White
believed in thy coming, and taught it with energy.” And while they
were speaking, their eyes would fall upon their garments and see the
writing, and then they would wail aloud. I saw that they had drunk of
the deep waters, and fouled the residue with their feet—trodden the
Sabbath under foot, and that is why they were weighed in the balance
and found wanting. Then my attending angel directed me to the City
again, where I saw four angels winging their way to the gate of the
City, and were just presenting the golden card to the angel at the gate.
Then I saw another angel swiftly flying from the direction of the most
excellent glory, and crying with a loud voice to the other angels, and
waving something up and down in his hand. I asked my attending
angel for an explanation of what I saw. He told me that I could see no
more then, but he would shortly show me what those things that I then
saw meant.
Sabbath afternoon one of our number was sick, and requested
prayers that he might be healed. We all united in applying to the
Physician that never lost a case, and while healing power came down,
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and the sick was healed, the Spirit fell upon me and I was taken off in
vision.
I saw four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and were on
their way to accomplish it. Jesus was clothed with priestly garments.
He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised his hands upward, and
with a voice of deep pity cried, “My blood, Father, my blood, my blood,
my blood.” Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God, who
sat upon the great white throne, and was shed all about Jesus. Then
I saw an angel with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying to the
four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and waving something
up and down in his hand, and crying with a loud voice, “Hold! hold!
hold! hold! until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.” I
asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and what
the four angels were about to do. He said to me that it was God that
restrained the powers, and that he gave his angels charge over things
on the earth, and that the four angels had power from God to hold
the four winds, and that they were about to let them go, and while
their hands were loosening, and the four winds were about to blow,
the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not sealed,
then he raised his hands to the Father and plead with him that he had
spilled his blood for them. Then another angel was commissioned to