Two consecutive paragraphs from a personal testimony addressed to a prominent worker of earlier years illustrate how far-reaching experiences of life may be made plain in just a brief symbolic view: EGWMR 11.3
“Many other scenes connected with your case have been presented to me. At one time you were represented to me as trying to push a long car up a steep ascent. But this car, instead of going up the hill, kept running down. This car represented the food business as a commercial enterprise, which has been carried forward in a way that God does not commend. EGWMR 11.4
“At another time you were represented to me as a general, mounted on a horse, and carrying a banner. One came and took out of your hand the banner bearing the words, ‘The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,’ and it was trampled in the dust. I saw you surrounded by men who were linking you up with the world.”—E. G. White Letter 239, 1903. EGWMR 11.5