- A Word of Explanation
- MR No. 1360—Mutual Support Among Various Departments; Sale of Christ's Object Lessons for the Support of Our Schools
- MR No. 1361—Testimony Regarding the Bourdeaus
- MR No. 1362—Religion Needs To Be Connected with Business Affairs
- MR No. 1363—Condescension of Jesus; Unity in Christ; Appeal for an Efficient, Well-Trained Ministry
- MR No. 1364—Severe Reproof for Faultfinding Spirit and Carelessness in Dress
- MR No. 1365—Consecration to Present Service to God
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- MR No. 1367—Counsel Against Faultfinding, Ridiculing, Sneering at Women; Examine Yourself First
- MR No. 1368—Encouragement in the Face of Disappointment and Depression
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- MR No. 1370—Results of Studying Harmful Textbooks; Teach the Lessons Christ Taught
- MR No. 1371—Pleasant California Weather; Personal Health Practices; Writing Spiritual Gifts, vol. 4; Keeping Cheerful in Trial
- MR No. 1372—Parents to Exercise Loving Authority in the Home; Children to Seek and Follow Parents’ Counsel
- MR No. 1373—Christians to Reflect Christ, Remaining Calm Under Provocation; Value the Souls for Whom Christ Died
- MR No. 1374—Bear Witness to Christ Before the World; How to Conduct the Christian Warfare
- MR No. 1375—Experience of Golden Calf an Example for God's People Today; Danger in Pleasure Seeking, Especially Among Youth; Development of a Christian Character
- MR No. 1376—Encouragement to Work the Cities
- MR No. 1377—Guidelines for Evangelism; No Theatrics; Health to be Preserved; Workers to Go Two by Two
- MR No. 1378—Better Days Are Coming
- MR No. 1379—An Early Vision; How To Be an Overcomer
- MR No. 1380—Nearness to the End; Using Our Means for the Advancement of the Cause
- MR No. 1381—The Evil of Selfishness; Harmony Possible Through Prayer and Focusing on the Cross of Christ
- MR No. 1382—An Appeal to Dr. Lindsay to Visit Australia
- MR No. 1383—Second Appeal to Dr. Lindsay to Come to Australia
- MR No. 1384—Trust God, He Will Set Things Right; Problems in the Publishing Work; Blessings of God
- MR No. 1385—Diary—The Canvassing Work
- MR No. 1386—Genuine Medical Missionary Work; Cautions Regarding Financial Contracts
- MR No. 1387—The Lot of God's People in a World of Sin; Peter's Denial and Jesus’ Trial; Satan's Confederacy of Evil Angels and Evil Men
- MR No. 1388—Increase Your Talents; Render Service to God by Witnessing; Laodicean Condition of Church
- MR No. 1389—As It Was in the Days of Noah
- MR No. 1390—Letter to a Discouraged James White; Work in Washington, Iowa
- MR No. 1391—A Call to Commitment in Youth
- MR No. 1392—Enjoying the Washington Home
- MR No. 1393—A. T. Jones Urged To Be Unselfish and Gentle
- MR No. 1394—Be Meek and Kind to Critics, Not Avenging Oneself; Trust in God and Seek His Guidance, Intercession, and Approval
- MR No. 1395—An Independent, Unsanctified Will; Modest Behavior Lacking in the Young
- MR No. 1396—The Case of Hiram Rich
- MR No. 1397—Guidelines for Praying for the Sick; Devise Ways to Aid Nature
- MR No. 1398—Locate Sanitariums Outside Cities, With Ample Property; To Obtain Health, Exercise Body and Mind
- MR No. 1399—Wake Up, and Live for Christ; Forgive, and Love One Another; Work Unitedly
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- Circulation of “Great Controversy,” Vol. IV
- Prediction of Disasters in 1890
- Satan's Efforts to Destroy the Sabbath Memorial of the Creation
- Triumphant Through Christ
- Love of the Things That Are in the World
- The Work in the Southern Field
- The Work of Training Medical Missionaries
- A Call for True Men
- “From Everlasting to Everlasting, Thou Art God”
- Gratitude for Imparted Strength
- The Personality of God
- True Science
- The Causes of the Jewish Rejection of Christ
- The Men in Positions of Trust in Our Institutions
- The Dangers and Results of Following Worldly Policies
- MR No. 1401—Sacredness of the Law and the Sabbath; The Need for Obedience and Reformation
- MR No. 1402—Marriage of W. C. White; Speaking and Writing in Tasmania; Jesus Our Example
- MR No. 1403—Calamities and the Great Controversy
- MR No. 1404—Breathing Tobacco-Poisoned Air While Traveling
- MR No. 1405—Excerpts From Diary, July 6-31, 1892; Strong Expressions of Faith in Spite of Physical Trials
- MR No. 1406—Counsel on the Importance of Making Every Aspect of the Sabbath School, Including Enactments, Count for Eternity
- MR No. 1407—An Appeal to Exercise Faith, Obey Christ, and Grow in Spirituality
- MR No. 1408—Conditions in Takoma Park and Battle Creek; God's People to Fulfill the Gospel Commission; Stand Apart From Those Who Undermine Present Truth
- MR No. 1409—Jots and Tittles II
- MR No. 1410—Do Not Establish Business Interests in Large Cities; Live Outside the Cities
- MR No. 1411—The Ladder to Heaven
- MR No. 1412—The Case of J. H. Kellogg; Christ, the Great Medical Missionary; Physicians to Labor as Christ Labored
- MR No. 1413—Personal News; Love for James White, and Expressions of Strong Confidence in Him
- MR No. 1414—Unity in the Church
- MR No. 1415—Counsels Concerning Sanitarium Work; Importance of Personal Holiness
- MR No. 1416—The Workings of Satan; Use of Tithe
- MR No. 1417—Literature To Be Circulated Like Leaves of Autumn; “Exclusive” Principles To Be Eliminated
- MR No. 1418—The Danger of Prosperity; Talents To Be Used for God; An Appeal for New Commitment to Christ
- MR No. 1419—Satan the Author of Commercial Strife; Strange Occurrences Predicted
MR No. 1404—Breathing Tobacco-Poisoned Air While Traveling
(Written in May, 1884, at Benicia, California, 32 miles from San Francisco.)
The sleeping car conductor spoke to the gentlemen in the seat with us, [asking them] to go to another car, so we have the whole seat to ourselves. We are pleasantly situated. We are delayed—a box is heated, a fire smelling badly—but we are now started again. I shall endure the journey well, I think.19MR 283.1
May 9—Since writing the above we have had some experience. I realized difficulty in breathing and was greatly annoyed by the effluvia of tobacco, but as I had crossed the continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic nineteen times I had found [that] on the northern route there could be secured in the sleeper every convenience without the annoyance of being obliged to inhale tobacco-poisoned air.19MR 283.2
Once only was I grievously troubled. My husband and I were situated in the car opposite a gentleman, his wife, and daughter. This gentleman was a steamboat inspector. He smoked in the cars. Others took lenity from him and they smoked. We changed our seat for the smoke room which could be closed. I thought we were safe, but I realized no relief. I used lemon freely but felt the same strange emotion, and the tobacco-poisoned air was the same as in any [other] part of the car. I was determined to endure it and I laid down, but my head felt that a tight band was drawn around it. I was unable to think, and soon went into a spasm. It was one hour before this was overcome and I was relieved, but with a strange sensation of giddiness and weakness which lasted me three months.19MR 283.3
The smoking steamboat inspector was told it was the tobacco smoke which had acted like poison upon me. He threw away his cigar and we had no more smoking on the train. A physician on board stated that he feared it was to me a fatal poison and that I would never become conscious again. He told me never to consent to be in the room or in the car, carriage, or steamboats where I would be obliged to breathe the air poisoned by tobacco, for he had in his practice treated many cases of mothers and children with affection of the heart caused by living in and inhaling constantly tobacco-poisoned air. Notwithstanding he warned the husband and father of the sure result, he thought there could have been no change [in the man's habit], for the afflicted ones lived only a short time and were [as] verily poisoned to death as if a dose of arsenic or strychnine had been administered. The blood was poisoned.19MR 284.1
He further stated that a very large share of these wives and children who die with heart disease are purely the sure result of living in an atmosphere that is charged with tobacco. “Yours is,” said he, “a miraculous escape. The twitching of the muscles of the face, the rigidity of the muscles followed with great prostration and relaxed muscles, are the sure tokens of poison. The violent action of the heart followed by a feeble, intermittent pulse, I have met it very many times. It is the effect of tobacco poison. Hundreds are falling victims to this plague of men's own creating, and then have to suffer the consequence of their own perverted habits. They sacrifice wife and children and themselves for [an] indulgence which is a curse to themselves and to all around them.”19MR 284.2
On this short trip I have suffered great pain in my heart and dullness of the head. I questioned whether it would be safe to lie down and attempt to sleep. I was very weary, but the drawing room opening directly into the car with the door open was devoted to smoking. A party of Germans were on the car, and their habits are to smoke almost constantly.19MR 284.3
I spoke to the ticket conductor. He said he had no control whatever of the passengers of the sleeping cars. He could do nothing. If the passengers wanted to smoke, they would, and no one could control the matter. I spoke to the porter, asking him if there was no place in the so-called palace car where I could be free from tobacco-poisoned air. He said he could not do anything; he was only a servant. I decided to try [to solve] the matter, and went into my berth, drew the curtains as closely as possible about us, and opened the windows; and, as there was no smoking after they took their berths, I [thought I] might sleep. In the morning I had a severe pain in my heart, and breathing was quite difficult.19MR 285.1
I had yet ten hours on the cars. Close by our seats the Germans began their devotion, to offer up their morning sacrifice. To whom—to the Creator or to the devil? I spoke to the conductor. He said he could not hinder them but would speak to them in regard to it. He did, and they desisted from smoking in that locality. They went into the rear department. In order to obtain correct information, [I] inquired of the sleeping car conductor. He says that it is the custom to devote one end of the car to smoking. As the door is either left wide open or continually opening and shutting, the smoke was fully and thoroughly distributed through the car. I knew now what we had to hope for—nothing but poisoned air to breathe the entire journey. I must bear it as best I could.19MR 285.2
We passed over some striking scenery. There is much on this route that is interesting in the scenery. The engine is climbing up the steep ascent with two engines tugging laboriously with their load of coaches in their serpentine course, bearing to the right, [then] to the left, going through the heart of [the] mountains.—Letter 54a, 1884.19MR 285.3