The pioneering work in New South Wales did not lend itself well to the writing on the life of Christ she hoped to do. As she picked up her diary on April 25, just a month after the move from Melbourne, she wrote: 4BIO 143.9
I thank and praise the Lord for the precious few hours’ sleep I have had. It is now half past one o'clock that I awake and cannot sleep. My mind is troubled. I want every day to write something on the life of Christ.—Manuscript 74, 1894. 4BIO 144.1