Washington, New Hampshire
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had been a
bedrock of Sabbatarianism
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in the late 1840s with
Cyrus and William Farnsworth,
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Frederick Wheeler,
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and TM Preble all living nearby.
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By the 1860s, though,
spiritual decline had set in.
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DM Canright and JN
Andrews had worked in the area
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with limited success,
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and by 1867, the
church had closed.
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Frederick Wheeler had
now moved to New York State.
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There was a spirit of
judgmentalism, bitterness,
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and a general backsliding
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that had set in
amongst the members.
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In 1867,
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Ellen and James
White came to the area
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to conduct a revival series
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and stayed in the
home of Cyrus Farnsworth.
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Over the course of several days,
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they held nine meetings
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but were met
with little success.
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It was difficult work.
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Some of the
success stories, though,
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were the
reconversion of Worcester Ball.
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He had become a
bitter antagonist
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of Ellen White and
was a prickly character
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prone to critical comments.
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But as Ellen faithfully
and tenderly appealed to him,
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he returned to the fold.
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Another person in the
community who was a pillar
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was William Farnsworth,
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but he had recently
gone back to chewing tobacco
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unbeknownst to anyone.
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His friends and
family had no idea
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about this recent change,
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but his son Eugene did know.
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He had seen his
father spitting in the snow
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when they were out in the woods
and covering it with his foot,
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but he did not tell
anyone and kept this to himself.
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Eugene was a teenager,
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and a visit about
a year or so earlier
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by JN Andrews had encouraged him
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to question his purpose in life.
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He was, however, unconvinced
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of the prophetic
gift of Ellen White,
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but now that she was in town,
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he had the perfect
opportunity to test this out.
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If Ellen White
was truly a prophet,
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then she would know
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about his father's tobacco habit
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which no one else
except himself knew about.
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As she was speaking
personally to those present,
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some words of
rebuke, some encouragement,
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she turned and
looked at William Farnsworth
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and gave a pointed testimony
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about his use of
both pork and tobacco
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whilst appearing to be
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a faithful
defender of the faith.
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She said he was
a great hindrance
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to the work in New Hampshire,
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and he publicly
repented of his sin
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and turned his life around.
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At those meetings,
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18 young people
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would give their lives to Jesus.
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Nine of which would go
on to be full-time workers
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for the church,
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one of which was
Eugene Farnsworth,
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making those
meetings in Christmas 1867
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a significant
turning point in this area
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and the lives of those present.
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This story also
illustrates the powerful impact
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of the prophetic gift
and while it was often used
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for broad and
far-reaching messages,
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it was also personal in nature,
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speaking to people's
individual needs and issues.
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William Farnsworth,
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with his secret and private sin,
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was a stumbling block
to the progress of the work
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in the town and a hindrance
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to at least one of the young men
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dedicating his
life fully to God.
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Maybe you are struggling
with a secret or a private sin
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that no one else knows about.
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Surrender it to God,
dedicate your life to Him,
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and allow His power
to rule in your life.
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In the 1850s,
Rochester, New York
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was a relatively new town
with lots of new industries
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and people moving in.
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The early Advent
believers would settle here
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for a few years in a
sort of youth commune.
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A house was procured
for the rent of $175 a year
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on what is now
491 Mount Hope Avenue.
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The Whites would
live here for 3.5 years,
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from the spring of
1852 to the autumn of 1855.
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The Advent Review
and Sabbath Herald
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which had begun
in Paris Hill, Maine
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before moving to
Saratoga Springs, New York,
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would now spend a few years here
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in Rochester, New York.
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It was here in
Rochester, New York
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that the
Adventists would purchase
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their first printing press,
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an original
Washington hand press.
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For the first time
the Review and Herald
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would be printed on
an Adventist-owned press,
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operated by Sabbath-keeping
Adventist workers.
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It would continue
here until October 30, 1855
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when it would move to
Battle Creek, Michigan.
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The years here in
Rochester, though,
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were filled with
sacrifice and dedication.
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The house would
have stood right here
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near this spot on
Mount Hope Avenue,
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and it was
furnished with 2 old bedsteads
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for 25 cents, 6
chairs for a dollar,
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and 4 more chairs with
no seating for 62 cents.
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They could not afford potatoes,
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so they ate turnips
instead, butter was expensive,
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and so they used fruit sauce,
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and beans were a
regular part of their diet.
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The workers, mainly
in their teens and 20s,
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worked for little
more than their room,
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their food, and their clothing.
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And about 12 of
them at any one time
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would live in the White's home
along with the printing press.
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Working long
hours into the evening,
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often till
midnight and sometimes
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all through the night,
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they cheerfully
set about their task
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of spreading the
message via publications.
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Uriah Smith, who turned
down a lucrative job offer
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to come and work
for his room and board,
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had been living here a few weeks
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when he commented
that he had no objection
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to eating beans 365
times in succession,
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yet when it came
time to making them
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a regular part of his
diet, he should protest.
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Other individuals
such as George Amadon,
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Warren Bachelor, Annie Smith,
JN Loughborough, JN Andrews,
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Nathaniel White, and Annie White
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all passed by
here in the mid 1850s.
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Many would die early deaths.
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Here the workers
labored faithfully
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without all the tools
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that would have
made their work easier.
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When the first
books were printed,
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they used a shoemaker's
awl to perforate the backs.
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The sisters then
used a needle and thread
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to stitch the books together,
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and then a
straight edge and penknife
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were used the
trim and cut the edges.
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There was no folding machine,
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and this had to be
done by hand as well.
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The covers were then pasted on
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before they were
wrapped and packed and sent out.
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Today for many of us
we live a life of plenty,
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far removed
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from these early
humble beginnings.
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The work that began in sacrifice
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will end also in sacrifice,
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and whilst the exact
nature of that sacrifice
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may look different today,
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the general
principles of dedication to duty
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and commitment
to the cause remain.
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Today we have
perhaps more resources
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than at any
other time in history
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and access to
information and technology
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that we did not
have in years gone by
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that make the spread
of the gospel much easier.
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Let us not act lethargically,
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but may the
energy and enthusiasm
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of these past pioneers
motivate and inspire us today.
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Her brother is far better known,
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his books widely circulated,
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and although fewer people
know her name, Annie Smith
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made a significant contribution
in the early days of Adventism.
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She was a gifted
writer, poet, and editor,
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and 10 of her hymns
appeared in the 1941 edition
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of the "Church Hymnal" and 4
in the current edition today.
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She was born into a
family with three other brothers
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here in West Wilton
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in this house today
named the Smith Tavern.
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It would also be the home
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that she would
unfortunately die in
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at the age of 27.
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Annie gave her life to Jesus
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at the tender age of 10
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in anticipation
of His soon return.
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Yet when the Great
Disappointment happened,
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she, along with
her brother Uriah,
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gave up hope in His soon return
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and they both went
back to their studies.
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Annie was intellectually gifted,
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and received a place
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at the
Charlestown Female Seminary
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here in Boston where
she spent several years.
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Her mother Rebeckah
was still a believer,
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and one day
Joseph Bates came to town
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and mentioned that
he would be in her area.
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Her mother wrote to Annie,
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asking her if she
would attend the meetings.
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She wasn't really interested,
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but out of a sense
of duty and obligation,
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she agreed to go.
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After she went to the
meetings, at the end of it,
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Joseph Bates asked her
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if she wanted to
have Bible studies,
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which she agreed to.
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At the end of three years study,
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she accepted the
Advent message again,
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the Sabbath, and
all its teachings.
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At the time, Annie
had a lucrative job offer
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to work as a
teacher for $1000 a year,
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an extraordinary
amount at the time,
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though she had not accepted it.
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Another opportunity arose
to work at the newly-relocated
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Review and Herald
office in Rochester, New York.
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As she weighed
up the two offers,
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with financial
gain in the one job
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versus little more than
room and board in the other,
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she chose the latter.
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Here in Rochester,
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she worked diligently
and soon proved herself
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as a capable hand in the office.
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She worked as a copy editor
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but also at times she
was the acting editor.
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With James White away often,
00:12:31.78\00:12:33.82
she would
sometimes fill in for him,
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remarkable
considering her young age,
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and would ensure
that the magazine
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could now have a
regular publishing schedule.
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Previously, with James
White's busy speaking itinerary,
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the magazine wasn't
always so regular and consistent
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in its distribution,
but now with Annie there,
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things changed for the better.
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Annie had been working at
the Review just over a year
00:13:03.45\00:13:06.98
when James
White's brother and sister
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Nathaniel and Anna arrived,
00:13:09.55\00:13:11.52
both suffering
from tuberculosis.
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Maybe due to the close proximity
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that they were living in,
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Annie contracted the disease
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and went home to
live with her mother
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in November of 1854.
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All the treatments
that she tried didn't work.
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Ellen White sent $75
of her own money to help,
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but nothing seemed to work.
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Annie finished
this book of poems here
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entitled "Home
Here and Home in Heaven"
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10 days before she died.
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The last poem she wrote reads,
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"Oh! Shed not a tear
over the spot where I sleep,
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for the living and
not the dead ye may weep.
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Why mourn for the
weary who sweetly repose,
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free in the grave from
life's burdens and woes."
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Annie lived a life of sacrifice,
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dedication, and commitment.
00:14:02.94\00:14:05.11
She gave up a prosperous
career to work for the church
00:14:05.14\00:14:09.04
in return for very
little financial gain.
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It was the sacrifice of
mainly young people like this
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in the early days of our church
00:14:16.32\00:14:18.45
that caused it to
grow so remarkably,
00:14:18.49\00:14:21.46
and it will be a
similar sacrifice
00:14:21.49\00:14:23.43
by God's people
at the end of time
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that will bring
this work to a close.
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When I was growing up, if
you wanted to study history
00:14:31.07\00:14:33.50
or do research on
a particular topic,
00:14:33.54\00:14:35.70
there was really only
one option that we had,
00:14:35.74\00:14:38.24
and that was to read a book.
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And I never really used
to like reading that much.
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So we decided to
create a resource
00:14:42.24\00:14:44.05
that will translate
this written information
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into the language of today.
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My name is Adam Ramdin.
00:14:50.25\00:14:51.59
And my name is Clive Coutet.
00:14:51.62\00:14:52.95
And we are the
co-founders of Lineage Journey.
00:14:52.99\00:14:55.79
Back in 2016, I was
reading "The Great Controversy"
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and I was really
struggling to find
00:14:58.33\00:14:59.73
any relevant video resources
00:14:59.76\00:15:01.43
that I could use
to aid me in my study.
00:15:01.46\00:15:03.43
So I decided to approach
Adam about the possibility
00:15:03.47\00:15:05.60
of making some
videos on the Reformation.
00:15:05.63\00:15:08.20
So we started
filming in the end of 2016.
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And in 2017,
00:15:11.24\00:15:12.67
we released 48 videos
00:15:12.71\00:15:14.74
that covered the
period of the early church
00:15:14.78\00:15:17.15
all the way through to
the end of the Reformation.
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Then in 2018 and 2019,
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we released another 52
episodes on church history.
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These have now been
viewed all over the world
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in over 100 countries
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covering about 50
different languages,
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and we have over 3
million views online.
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These videos have
been used as a resource
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in both secular
and Christian schools
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as well as several church
denominations across the globe,
00:15:40.47\00:15:43.81
using Bible
studies, study groups,
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as well as play to
the general congregation.
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They also make a great
online evangelistic tool
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where people are
able to share them
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and we've seen
them go into countries
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that we our self can't go,
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countries that are Muslim,
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countries where
the Christian message
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cannot go.
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One of the
challenges we have, though,
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is that amongst our
team of almost 10 people,
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we are all
volunteers on this project
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sacrificing our time,
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our effort and
energy in order to make
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these resources together.
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Just to put
things into perspective,
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each Lineage episode
as well as the filming
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takes an additional
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two to three days
in post production.
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That is a lot of
time and sacrifice
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that this team has made
00:16:20.51\00:16:21.84
in putting 100
episodes together.
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So we need to raise the funds
00:16:23.65\00:16:25.05
to cover the cost of the filming
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as well as the
continued production costs
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that come after that.
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So for as little as $1 a month,
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you can help us to
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Thank you for your
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May God bless you and we ask
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and our future plans in prayer.
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West Wilton, New
Hampshire, here in this house,
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a giant of the faith was born.
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His name is Uriah Smith.
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At a young age,
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he developed an
infection in his left leg
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and
unfortunately at the age of 12,
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he had to have it
amputated just above the knee.
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This took place
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just up the road
on the kitchen table.
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It lasted 20 minutes
and no anesthesia was used.
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Like his sister,
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he was gifted
with a brilliant mind
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and attended
Phillips Academy in Exeter,
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one of the
foremost schools of his day.
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When his father died suddenly,
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it caused him to think
about his own spiritual life
00:17:53.74\00:17:56.74
and study thoroughly
the Adventist message
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after having lost his zeal
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after the
disappointment of 1844.
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He went to hear
James and Ellen speak
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in Washington, New
Hampshire for the first time
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and was impressed by
the explanation given
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for the Great Disappointment.
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He went home and
studied his Bible
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for three months
before making a commitment
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to renew his faith
and rejoin the believers.
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Soon after, he turned
down a lucrative job offer
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and moved here to
Rochester, New York
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to work for the newly relocated
Review and Herald offices.
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He was 21 years old at the time,
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and would go on to work
for the Review and Herald
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for 50 more years.
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At the age of 23 when it
moved to Battle Creek, Michigan,
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he became the resident editor.
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The importance
of the printed word
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at this time of
history cannot be overstated.
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The churches that were scattered
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around the
country would only hear
00:19:04.84\00:19:06.91
from the
travelling itinerant speakers
00:19:06.94\00:19:08.98
what was happening
elsewhere every several weeks.
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Uriah Smith, as the
resident editor-in-chief
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of the Review and Herald,
00:19:15.15\00:19:16.52
was like the pastor
of the whole church,
00:19:16.55\00:19:18.79
as people would
read his editorials
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and find out the news
00:19:20.96\00:19:22.29
of what was happening elsewhere,
00:19:22.32\00:19:23.66
such as who had died.
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The Adventist
Review was like the glue
00:19:25.33\00:19:28.03
that kept the
early church together.
00:19:28.06\00:19:30.27
However, he was more
than an editor and preacher.
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Uriah Smith had 8
patents during his life,
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one of which was a school
desk that earned him $3,000.
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He also patented a significantly
00:19:46.61\00:19:48.75
improved version
of the prosthetic leg.
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He was also a prolific writer,
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completing 18 books
during his lifetime,
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the most famous
and well-read being
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"Thoughts on
Daniel and Revelation."
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In 1903,
00:20:07.80\00:20:09.50
tragedy would strike
the Review and Herald
00:20:09.54\00:20:12.27
as it was burned down.
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The insurance only
covered a fraction,
00:20:14.01\00:20:16.58
and instead of
rebuilding here in Battle Creek,
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the decision was made to
relocate to Washington, DC.
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Uriah Smith, writing shortly
after this tragedy, said,
00:20:23.92\00:20:27.72
"In the shadow
of great calamity,
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we are of good courage."
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The Review and Herald
under Uriah Smith's leadership
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had gone from a
small Washington hand press
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to having hundreds of employees
00:20:37.87\00:20:39.80
using the best equipment
and printing in six languages.
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On the March 6, 1903,
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he was walking to
work here in Battle Creek
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when he suddenly collapsed.
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He was rushed to
be seen by a doctor,
00:20:57.79\00:20:59.92
but unfortunately he
died a few hours later
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from a large stroke.
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A special issue of
the Review and Herald
00:21:04.69\00:21:07.16
was published with
his picture on the front
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as well as a poem by
his late sister Annie
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that she had written
years previously about himself.
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He was also a hymn
writer and his most famous hymn
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rings with words that
echo to our time today.
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"O brother, be faithful!
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Soon Jesus will come,
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for whom we have waited so long.
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O, soon shall we
enter our glorious home,
00:21:34.46\00:21:37.69
and join in the
conqueror's song.
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O brother, be faithful!
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For why should we
prove unfaithful to Him
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who has shown such deep,
00:21:44.73\00:21:46.57
such unbounded
and infinite love,
00:21:46.60\00:21:49.40
who died to redeem us His own."
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There is one book
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that almost cost
Ellen White her life,
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and that book today is entitled
"The Great Controversy".
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The origins of this book
come to this rural area here,
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just outside the
town of Bowling Green
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in the state of Ohio.
00:22:44.63\00:22:46.16
Ellen and James White had
been traveling across the state
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visiting various families,
00:22:49.06\00:22:50.77
and they were in this area
00:22:50.80\00:22:52.30
for the funeral
of a young child.
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The funeral took
place on March 14, 1858
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in the Lovett's
Grove schoolhouse,
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which would have been located
just across the road from here.
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During the funeral sermon,
00:23:03.88\00:23:06.11
Ellen White received a
vision that lasted two hours.
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Receiving a
vision during the funeral
00:23:10.49\00:23:12.85
of a grieving young
family is not the ideal timing,
00:23:12.89\00:23:16.73
but the truth that
this vision would share
00:23:16.76\00:23:18.89
would be vitally
important to us today.
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.90
The following
day James and Ellen
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were traveling home by train
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and she relayed to
him what she had seen
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and they discussed plans
for writing out the vision.
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It was decided that
when they reached home
00:23:37.61\00:23:39.95
this would be her first work.
00:23:39.98\00:23:42.38
Yet on that train,
00:23:42.42\00:23:43.75
there was what one author
has described as an unseen,
00:23:43.79\00:23:47.19
unpaying
passenger who was determined
00:23:47.22\00:23:50.29
that the world should never know
00:23:50.33\00:23:51.73
the truth about himself
00:23:51.76\00:23:53.29
that it should not get published
00:23:53.33\00:23:54.83
and see the light of day.
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Arriving in Jackson, Michigan,
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.13
they went to the
home of Dan Palmer
00:23:59.17\00:24:01.24
and as Ellen
White was conversing
00:24:01.27\00:24:03.10
With sister Palmer,
she suffered a cold,
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.84
strange sensation
00:24:05.87\00:24:07.84
pass over her
right side and heart.
00:24:07.88\00:24:10.91
Those present
earnestly prayed for her,
00:24:16.42\00:24:19.15
and with a
partially restored strength,
00:24:19.19\00:24:21.19
she was able to
continue her journey
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.29
here to Battle Creek.
00:24:23.32\00:24:25.03
Arriving back
here in this house,
00:24:25.06\00:24:27.66
she began to
write, but it wasn't easy.
00:24:27.70\00:24:30.40
Initially she only
had enough strength
00:24:30.43\00:24:32.60
to write barely one page
00:24:32.63\00:24:34.64
and then she had to rest
for three days afterwards.
00:24:34.67\00:24:37.87
But as she continued to write
and her strength increased,
00:24:37.91\00:24:41.08
she was able to
progress and finish the book.
00:24:41.11\00:24:44.81
In June of that year
she received some light
00:24:44.85\00:24:48.18
as to what happened
in Dan Palmer's home,
00:24:48.22\00:24:51.05
and she wrote,
00:24:51.09\00:24:52.42
"I was shown in vision
that in the attack at Jackson,
00:24:52.45\00:24:55.62
Satan had
intended to take my life,
00:24:55.66\00:24:58.59
in order to hinder the
work that I was about to write.
00:24:58.63\00:25:02.13
But angels of God
were sent to my rescue."
00:25:02.16\00:25:05.90
The unseen,
00:25:05.93\00:25:07.27
unpaying passenger on that train
00:25:07.30\00:25:10.01
did not want the world to know
00:25:10.04\00:25:11.97
that he had been
an angel in heaven,
00:25:12.01\00:25:14.08
that he had fallen into sin,
00:25:14.11\00:25:15.94
and that he was the cause
of the misery in this world.
00:25:15.98\00:25:19.68
The first published
account of this vision
00:25:25.69\00:25:28.32
would be this book, right here,
00:25:28.36\00:25:30.06
the 1858 edition of
"Spiritual Gifts, Volume 1."
00:25:30.09\00:25:34.90
This would later be enlarged
into the "Spirit of Prophecy,"
00:25:34.93\00:25:38.10
volumes One to Four,
00:25:38.13\00:25:39.60
and then eventually
to what we have today,
00:25:39.63\00:25:41.80
a five-part series entitled
the "Conflict of the Ages,"
00:25:41.84\00:25:46.04
of which the book
"Great Controversy"
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.14
is the last in the series.
00:25:48.18\00:25:50.01
The Great Controversy
between Christ and Satan
00:25:50.05\00:25:53.11
would be a major theme in
the writings of Ellen White,
00:25:53.15\00:25:56.48
and also the motif
00:25:56.52\00:25:58.22
by which Seventh-day
Adventists would understand
00:25:58.25\00:26:00.72
as key to unlocking Scripture.
00:26:00.76\00:26:03.09
This book,
00:26:07.90\00:26:09.23
the one that almost
cost Ellen White her life,
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.50
has changed lives
all around the world
00:26:11.53\00:26:14.84
and is the one that
we should seek to share
00:26:14.87\00:26:17.07
as much as possible.
00:26:17.11\00:26:18.51
Ellen White herself said,
00:26:18.54\00:26:20.28
"'The Great Controversy'
00:26:20.31\00:26:21.74
should be very
widely circulated.
00:26:21.78\00:26:24.28
It contains the
story of the past,
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.95
the present, and the future.
00:26:26.98\00:26:28.72
In its outline of
the closing scenes
00:26:28.75\00:26:31.29
of this Earth's history,
00:26:31.32\00:26:32.92
it bears a powerful testimony
in behalf of the truth.
00:26:32.95\00:26:36.96
I am more anxious to
see a wide circulation
00:26:36.99\00:26:40.13
for this book
than for any others
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.53
that I have written,
00:26:42.56\00:26:43.90
for in 'The Great Controversy,'
00:26:43.93\00:26:45.33
the closing scenes
of this world's history
00:26:45.37\00:26:48.07
are given more distinctly
than in any of my other books."
00:26:48.10\00:26:52.57
If you have never read the
book "The Great Controversy",
00:26:52.61\00:26:55.31
then I would invite you
to do so, and if you have,
00:26:55.34\00:26:58.18
then pray and ask God for wisdom
00:26:58.21\00:27:00.32
on who to share copy with.
00:27:00.35\00:27:02.48