Manuscript Releases, vol. 18 [Nos. 1301-1359]

MR No. 1325—Perplexity Over Proposed Trip to Australia

(Portion of diary entry written at Harbor Springs, Mich., August 5, 1891.)

This morning my mind is anxious and troubled in regard to my duty. Can it be the will of God that I go to Australia? This involves a great deal with me. I have not special light to leave America for this far-off country. Nevertheless if I knew it was the voice of God I would go. But I cannot understand this matter. 18MR 155.1

Some who are bearing responsibilities in America seem to be very persistent that my special work should be to go to Europe and to Australia. I finally did go to Europe and worked there in that new field with all the power of influence God had given me. My home and my goods in America became scattered, and I sustained much loss in this line. I offered my home for sale, and Dr. Kellogg purchased it. The price I received I needed, and it was a small price. I did wish it could have been double, for I had, with W. C. White, to open new fields, and I invested this means in school homes, in meeting- houses, and in opening new fields. 18MR 155.2

Marian Davis has been reading a chapter upon the Sabbath. The scribes and Pharisees were charging the Lord who made the Sabbath with transgression of the Sabbath. Oh, how blindly people will work! They acted as if they had put out their eyes. There were those who wished to carry the work in America in their own way, and these lost their bearings.—Manuscript 44, 1891. 18MR 155.3

Ellen G. White Estate

Washington, D. C.,

December 17, 1987.

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