- Preface
- Preface to First Edition of “Experience and Views”
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- The Great Advent Awakening
- The Reckoning of the Prophetic Periods
- The Disappointment and Its Aftermath
- A Vision Is Given to Ellen Harmon
- Two Groups of Adventists
- Dawn of the Light on the Sanctuary
- Truths Confirmed by Vision
- The Beginnings of Sabbath Observance
- Significance of the Sabbath Revealed
- The Important Sabbath Conferences
- The Pioneers Begin to Publish
- Starting the Review and Herald
- The Publishing Work Grows
- Battle Creek Becomes the Publishing Center
- The “Shut Door” and the “Open Door”
- The Two Ways Out of the Perplexity
- The Call for Church Organization
- The Great Controversy Vision
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- Subsequent Visions
- The Sealing
- God's Love for His People
- Shaking of the Powers of Heaven
- The Open and the Shut Door
- The Trial of our Faith
- To the “Little Flock”
- The Last Plagues and the Judgment
- End of the 2300 Days
- Duty in View of the Time of Trouble
- “Mysterious Rapping”
- The Messengers
- Mark of the Beast
- The Blind Leading the Blind
- Preparation for the End
- Prayer and Faith
- The Gathering Time
- Mrs. White's Dreams
- William Miller's Dream
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- Introduction
- The Fall of Satan
- The Fall of Man
- The Plan of Salvation
- The First Advent Of Christ
- The Ministry of Christ
- The Transfiguration
- The Betrayal of Christ
- The Trial of Christ
- The Crucifixion of Christ
- The Resurrection of Christ
- The Ascension of Christ
- The Disciples of Christ
- The Death of Stephen
- The Conversion of Saul
- The Jews Decide to Kill Paul
- Paul Visits Jerusalem
- The Great Apostasy
- The Mystery of Iniquity
- Death Not Eternal Life in Misery
- The Reformation
- The Church and the World United
- William Miller
- The First Angel's Message
- The Second Angel's Message
- The Advent Movement Illustrated
- Another Illustration
- The Sanctuary
- The Third Angel's Message
- A Firm Platform
- Spiritualism
- Covetousness
- The Shaking
- The Sins of Babylon
- The Loud Cry
- The Third Message Closed
- The Time of Trouble
- Deliverance of the Saints
- The Saints’ Reward
- The Earth Desolated
- The Second Resurrection
- The Second Death
- Appendix
A Vision Is Given to Ellen Harmon
The experience of this company of believers, and the work they were to do, they found portrayed in the last verses of Revelation 10. The Advent expectation was to be revived. God had led them. He was still leading them. In their midst was a young woman, Ellen Harmon by name, who in December, 1844, barely two months after the disappointment, received a prophetic revelation from God. In this vision the Lord portrayed to her the travels of the Advent people to the New Jerusalem. While this vision did not explain the reason for the Disappointment, which explanation could and did come from Bible study, it gave them assurance that God was leading them and would continue to lead them as they journeyed toward the heavenly city.EW xvi.1
At the beginning of the symbolic pathway revealed to youthful Ellen was a bright light, identified by the angel as the midnight cry, an expression linked with the climactic preaching in the summer and autumn of 1844 of the imminent Second Advent. In this vision she saw Christ as leading the people to the city of God. Their conversation indicated that the journey would be longer than they had anticipated. Some lost sight of Jesus and fell off the pathway, but those who kept their eyes on Jesus and the city reached their destination in safety. It is this that we find presented in “My First Vision” on pages 13-17.EW xvi.2