Exhibit 74—Thursday, March 10, 1898, Marian Davis to Ellen White

Minnie is sending you this morning the matter she has been copying. That on the sower is all we have—the article given to Miss Peck, and the manuscript left with me. Now, if you do not wish to add anything more, I can go on and finish the chapter, but shall wait to hear from you. The article I send, “No Reward but of Grace,” the parable of the laborers, is the last of the matter that was prepared for the book. I had planned to let this close the book. The last paragraphs seem to me very precious. The parable of the talents, which comes just before this, has set forth the importance of working, using every power for God, and this shows the spirit in which the work should be done. A few sentences you will recognize as from a letter lately written—“The golden gate is not opened to the proud in spirit. But the everlasting portals will open wide to the trembling touch of a little child.”ERWDA 39.1

You left me a manuscript on the unjust steward, and I have been collecting material to complete this, and have found some precious things to add to the closing chapters of the life of Christ. Of course I cannot compile the chapters (the last two) until I receive what you write on the ministry of healing.ERWDA 39.2

—White Estate Received Correspondence File. (Written from Sunnyside, Cooranbong, Australia.)