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Some Travel Stories

A thoughtless lady once said to Sister White, “How pleasant your life must be. You don’t have to stay at home day after day, caring for children, cooking, washing, scrubbing your life away. How I envy you! If I could travel and see the country, with no worries, as you do, how happy I would be!” LASW 103.1

We wonder how Sister White answered that woman. Just before, she had “been battling with many tears,” praying that she might be willing to deny herself for Jesus’ sake. One of her baby boys, two years old, was with friends in Maine. The other, only nine months old, was in New York. The mother longed for them, grieving because people envied her way of life with its endless traveling, as they said, “for fun”! LASW 103.2

That night a tall angel came, asking Sister White why she was so sad. She spoke of her loneliness. In answer the angel made a wonderful promise. He told Sister White, “You should keep the eye single to your duty, and follow in His opening providence, and the path shall brighten before you. Every self-denial, every sacrifice, is faithfully recorded, and will bring its reward.”—Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 131, 132. LASW 103.3

And, as Sister White traveled, faithfully obeying God’s instructions, the angel’s promise did come true. The pathway widened, brightening before her as she walked through life, obeying Jesus every step of the way. LASW 103.4