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Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1) - Contents
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    Enabled to Write

    This experience, apparently in her own home in Portland, Maine, in the late spring or early summer in 1845, marks a significant turn in Ellen's experience, for she observed as she related it:1BIO 91.3

    Up to this time I could not write. My trembling hand was unable to hold my pen steadily. While in vision I was commanded by an angel to write the vision. I attempted it, and wrote readily. My nerves were strengthened, and my hand became steady.—Spiritual Gifts, 2:60.1BIO 91.4

    Many years later she referred to her experience in beginning to write:1BIO 91.5

    The Lord has said, “Write out the things which I shall give you.” And I commenced when very young to do this work. My hand that was feeble and trembling because of infirmities became steady as soon as I took the pen in my hand, and since those first writings I have been able to write. God has given me the ability to write.... That right hand scarcely ever has a disagreeable sensation. It never wearies. It seldom ever trembles.—Manuscript 88a, 1900.1BIO 91.6

    As to her feelings and response when instructed, she wrote:1BIO 92.1

    I wept, and said, “Impossible, impossible.” The words came, “Nothing is impossible with God.” The effort was made and my hand commenced to write the things that had been given me.—Ibid.

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