Exhibits Relating to the Writing of The Desire of Ages

Exhibit 55—Thursday, January 18, 1894, Brighton, Victoria, Australia, EGW to W. W. Prescott

[Written in her tent at the Brighton camp meeting to the president of Battle Creek College, concerning a problem in that institution.] ERWDA 28.2

Now I must leave this subject so imperfectly presented, that I fear you will misinterpret that which I feel so anxious to make plain. Oh, that God would quicken the understanding, for I am but a poor writer, and cannot with pen or voice express the great and deep mysteries of God. Oh, pray for yourselves, pray for me. ERWDA 28.3

—Letter 67, 1894, p. 10.