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APPENDIX NUMBER ONE

We present the following testimonies, which we have the permission of the writer to show opposition to the visions, personal considerations aside, springs from prejudice, and exists only with those who have little or no acquaintance with the one through whom they are given, and also the impossibility of obtaining anything like justice or fairness from our opponents on this question. Bro. Ball had for quite a length of time been engaged in strenuous and public warfare against the visions, sending his communications to various papers, which were all eager to insert them, when Bro. and Sr. White made a visit to Washington, N. H., in December, 1867, and he had the privilege of forming a personal acquaintance with them, witnessing how the Spirit of God attended their labors, and happily of sharing in a measure therein himself. The result we will let him describe in his own words. The following from his pen was published in the Review of July 7, 1868: VEGW 129.1