{"id":24261,"date":"2025-07-16T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangtotgiare.com\/?page_id=24261"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:20:39","slug":"c16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtb.online\/en\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c16\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 16\u2014A View of the Sealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button onclick=\"myFunction()\" class=\"dropbtn\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Chapter 16\u2014A View of the Sealing<\/span><\/strong><\/button><\/p>\n<div id=\"myDropdown\" class=\"dropdown-content\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/\">Life Sketches of Ellen G. White<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width:1%!important\">Page<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/preface\/\">Preface<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">5<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c1\/\">Chapter 1\u2014Childhood<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">17<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c2\/\">Chapter 2\u2014Conversion<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">20<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c3\/\">Chapter 3\u2014Strivings Against Doubt<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">26<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c4\/\">Chapter 4\u2014Beginning of Public Labors<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">32<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c5\/\">Chapter 5\u2014Separation from the Church<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">43<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c6\/\">Chapter 6\u2014The Disappointment of 1843-44<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">54<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c7\/\">Chapter 7\u2014My First Vision<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">64<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c8\/\">Chapter 8\u2014Call to Travel<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">69<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c9\/\">Chapter 9\u2014Answers to Prayer<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">74<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c10\/\">Chapter 10\u2014Labors in New Hampshire<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">77<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c11\/\">Chapter 11\u2014Meeting Fanaticism<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">85<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c12\/\">Chapter 12\u2014The Sabbath of the Lord<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">95<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c13\/\">Chapter 13\u2014Marriage and United Labors<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">97<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c14\/\">Chapter 14\u2014Struggles with Poverty<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">105<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c15\/\">Chapter 15\u2014Labors in Western New York in 1848<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">110<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c16\/\">Chapter 16\u2014A View of the Sealing<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">116<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c17\/\">Chapter 17\u2014Encouraging Providences<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">120<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c18\/\">Chapter 18\u2014Beginning to Publish<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">125<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c19\/\">Chapter 19\u2014Visiting the Scattered Flock<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">129<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c20\/\">Chapter 20\u2014Publishing Again<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">136<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c21\/\">Chapter 21\u2014In Rochester, New York<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">142<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c22\/\">Chapter 22\u2014Advancing Under Difficulties<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">148<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c23\/\">Chapter 23\u2014Removal to Michigan<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">157<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c24\/\">Chapter 24\u2014Labors in the Middle West\u20141856-58<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">160<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c25\/\">Chapter 25\u2014Personal Trials<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">164<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c26\/\">Chapter 26\u2014Battling Against Disease<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">167<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c27\/\">Chapter 27\u2014Conflicts and Victory<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">173<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c28\/\">Chapter 28\u2014Among the Churches in New England<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">178<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c29\/\">Chapter 29\u2014Reclaiming the Lost<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">183<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c30\/\">Chapter 30\u2014Traveling the Narrow Way<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">190<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c31\/\">Chapter 31\u2014Burden Bearers<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">194<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c32\/\">Chapter 32\u2014A Solemn Dream<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">197<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c33\/\">Chapter 33\u2014Missionary Work<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">203<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c34\/\">Chapter 34\u2014Broader Plans<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">208<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c35\/\">Chapter 35\u2014Into All the World<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">211<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c36\/\">Chapter 36\u2014Circulating the Printed Page<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">216<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c37\/\">Chapter 37\u2014Public Labors in 1877<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">219<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c38\/\">Chapter 38\u2014Visit to Oregon<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">229<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c39\/\">Chapter 39\u2014From State to State<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">235<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c40\/\">Chapter 40\u2014A View of the Judgment<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">241<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c41\/\">Chapter 41\u2014The Death of Elder James White<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">247<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c42\/\">Chapter 42\u2014Fortitude Under Affliction<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">255<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c43\/\">Chapter 43\u2014Restoration of Health<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">261<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c44\/\">Chapter 44\u2014Writing and Speaking<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">267<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c45\/\">Chapter 45\u2014Labors in Central Europe<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">281<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c46\/\">Chapter 46\u2014Labors in Great Britain and Scandinavia<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">291<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c47\/\">Chapter 47\u2014In Confirmation of Confidence<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">309<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c48\/\">Chapter 48\u2014Danger in Adopting Worldly Policy in the Work of God<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">319<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c49\/\">Chapter 49\u2014Across the Pacific<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">331<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c50\/\">Chapter 50\u2014The First Australian Camp Meeting<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">344<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c51\/\">Chapter 51\u2014The Avondale School<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">349<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c52\/\">Chapter 52\u2014Through the South to the Conference of 1901<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">379<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c53\/\">Chapter 53\u2014At the Nation&#8217;s Capital<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">388<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c54\/\">Chapter 54\u2014In Southern California<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">399<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c55\/\">Chapter 55\u2014The San Francisco Earthquake<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">407<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c56\/\">Chapter 56\u2014At the 1909 General Conference<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">416<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c57\/\">Chapter 57\u2014Closing Labors<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">425<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c58\/\">Chapter 58\u2014Last Sickness<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">440<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c59\/\">Chapter 59\u2014The \u201cElmshaven\u201d Funeral Service<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">450<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c60\/\">Chapter 60\u2014The Memorial Service at Richmond<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">456<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<tr><strong><\/p>\n<td style=\"width:99%!important;text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mtb.online\/spirit-of-prophecy\/life-sketches-of-ellen-g-white\/c61\/\">Chapter 61\u2014The Funeral Services at Battle Creek<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"bookmenu\">462<\/td>\n<p><\/strong><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Following the return from Western New York in September, 1848, Elder and Mrs. White journeyed to Maine, where they held a meeting with the believers, October 20-22. This was the Topsham conference, where the brethren began praying that a way might be opened for publishing the truths connected with the Advent message. A month later they were with \u201ca small company of brethren and sisters,\u201d writes Elder Joseph Bates in his pamphlet on \u201cThe Sealing Message,\u201d \u201cassembled in meeting in Dorchester, near Boston, Mass.\u201d \u201cBefore the meeting commenced,\u201d he continues, \u201csome of us were examining some of the points in the sealing message; some difference of opinion existed about the correctness of the view of the word \u2018ascending\u2019 [see Revelation 7:2], etc.\u201d {LS 116}<\/p>\n<p>Elder James White, in an unpublished letter giving his account of this meeting, writes: \u201cWe all felt like uniting to ask wisdom from God on the points in dispute; also Brother Bates\u2019s duty in writing. We had an exceedingly powerful meeting. Ellen was again taken off in vision. She then began to describe the Sabbath light, which was the sealing truth. Said she: \u2018It arose from the rising of the sun. It arose back there in weakness, but light after light has shone upon it until the Sabbath truth is clear, weighty, and mighty. Like the sun when it first rises, its rays are cold, but as it comes up, its rays are warming and powerful; so the light and power has increased more and more until its rays are powerful, sanctifying the soul; but, unlike the sun, it will never set. The Sabbath light will be at its brightest when the saints are immortal; it will rise higher and higher until immortality comes.\u2019 {LS 116}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe saw many interesting things about this glorious sealing Sabbath, which I have not time or space to record. She told Brother Bates to write the things he had seen and heard, and the blessing of God would attend it.\u201d {LS 116}<\/p>\n<p>It was after this vision that Mrs. White informed her husband of his duty to publish, and that as he should advance by faith, success would attend his efforts. (See page 125.)] {LS 116}<\/p>\n<p>At the commencement of the holy Sabbath, January 5, 1849, we engaged in prayer with Brother Belden\u2019s family at Rocky Hill, Conn., and the Holy Ghost fell upon us. I was taken off in vision to the most holy place, where I saw Jesus still interceding for Israel. On the bottom of His garment was a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate. Then I saw that Jesus would not leave the most holy place until every case was decided either for salvation or destruction, and that the wrath of God could not come until Jesus had finished His work in the most holy place, laid off His priestly attire, and clothed Himself with the garments of vengeance. Then Jesus will step out from between the Father and men, and God will keep silence no longer, but pour out His wrath on those who have rejected His truth. I saw that the anger of the nations, the wrath of God, and the time to judge the dead, were separate and distinct, one following the other; also that Michael had not stood up, and that the time of trouble, such as never was, had not yet commenced. The nations are now getting angry, but when our High Priest has finished His work in the sanctuary, He will stand up, put on the garments of vengeance, and then the seven last plagues will be poured out. {LS 116.1}<\/p>\n<p>I saw that the four angels would hold the four winds until Jesus\u2019 work was done in the sanctuary, and then will come the seven last plagues. These plagues enraged the wicked against the righteous; they thought that we had brought the judgments of God upon them, and that if they could rid the earth of us, the plagues would then be stayed. A decree went forth to slay the saints, which caused them to cry day and night for deliverance. This was the time of Jacob\u2019s trouble. Then all the saints cried out with anguish of spirit, and were delivered by the voice of God. The one hundred and forty-four thousand triumphed. Their faces were lighted up with the glory of God. {LS 117.1}<\/p>\n<p>Then I was shown a company who were howling in agony. On their garments was written in large characters. \u201cThou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting.\u201d I asked who this company were. The angel said, \u201cThese are they who have once kept the Sabbath, and have given it up.\u201d I heard them cry with a loud voice, \u201cWe have believed in Thy coming, and taught it with energy.\u201d And while they were speaking, their eyes would fall upon their garments and see the writing, and then they would wail aloud. I saw that they had drunk of the deep waters, and fouled the residue with their feet,\u2014trodden the Sabbath underfoot,\u2014and that was why they were weighed in the balance and found wanting. {LS 117.2}<\/p>\n<p>Then my attending angel directed me to the city again, where I saw four angels winging their way to the gate of the city. They were just presenting the golden card to the angel at the gate, when I saw another angel flying swiftly from the direction of the most excellent glory, and crying with a loud voice to the other angels, and waving something up and down in his hand. I asked my attending angel for an explanation of what I saw. He told me that I could see no more then, but he would shortly show me what those things that I then saw meant. {LS 118.1}<\/p>\n<p>Sabbath afternoon one of our number was sick, and requested prayers that he might be healed. 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