The Proclamation of the Third Angel's Message

What feelings must have arisen in the hearts of the little group of penniless Advent believers. They had been a part of a movement in which thousands sounded the first angel's message, and they had witnessed unanimous support across the land in giving the second angel's message. Now they were but a handful who saw the significance and urgency of the third message but felt commissioned to send it forth. The visions had given assurance that God's blessing would attend James White as he wrote; that money would come in as the papers were sent out and read. It would be a success from the first, but most staggering of all—from this small beginning, it would be like “streams of light that went clear round the world” (Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 125). But perhaps this was not all remembered as James trudged the eight miles to the Middletown post office with the carpetbag full of papers.1BIO 165.5