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above them.” “Yes,” said she, “my heavenly father has planned it all
for me, and he knows when it will end, and I am determined not to
murmur.”
I felt that that was a great triumph—and she did triumph. May the
Lord help us to follow in her steps. Then I said to her, “I can only
tell you, Sister White, what you wrote us in one of your last letters.
You said, ‘The shadows are lengthening’”—And I thought of it just
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now. She said, “Brother Starr, the shadows are lengthening, and we
are nearing home. We will soon be home, and then we will talk it all
over together in the kingdom of God.”
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