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    Impelled to Write and Speak

    Usually, however, Mrs. White spoke or wrote readily of matters which had been shown to her, and in so doing she felt she was divinely aided in delivering the message. Thus, in writing to one man in 1900, she says: “I had not the least idea of writing as I have done, but the Lord has carried my mind on and on until you have the matter I send.”—E. G. White Letter 53, 1900.EGWMR 14.4

    A few years later she penned: “I am now sitting on my couch with my pen in hand, writing. Ideas come clear and distinct, and very forcibly. I thank the Lord with heart and soul and voice.”—E. G. White Letter 52, 1906. That she was sometimes impelled to speak is made very clear by the following, recorded in 1890:EGWMR 14.5

    “Before I stand on my feet, I have no thought of speaking as plainly as I do. But the Spirit of God rests upon me with power, and I cannot but speak the words given me. I dare not withhold one word of the testimony.... I speak the words given me by a power higher than human power, and I cannot, if I would, recall one sentence.EGWMR 14.6

    “In the night season the Lord gives me instruction, in symbols, and then explains their meaning. He gives me the word, and I dare not refuse to give it to the people. The love of Christ, and, I venture to add, the love of souls, constrains me, and I cannot hold my peace.”—E. G. White Manuscript 22, 1890.EGWMR 14.7

    Not always could the burden be laid aside even after the message was delivered. She speaks of this in 1895:EGWMR 14.8

    “When I have written one testimony to the brethren, I have thought that I should not have any more to write; but again I am in travail of soul, and cannot sleep or rest. In the night season I am speaking and writing clear words of admonition. I waken so burdened in soul that I [am] again driven to take up my pen. In various ways matters are opened up before my mind, and I dare not rest, or keep quiet.”—E. G. White Letter 59, 1895.EGWMR 14.9

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