1. Experience of Ellen White in Receiving the Visions

First Vision: “While I was praying at the family altar, the Holy Ghost fell upon me.”—Early Writings, 14.EGWATHW 1.2

“Five of us, all women, were kneeling quietly at the family altar. While we were praying, the power of God came upon me as I had never felt it before. I seemed to be surrounded with light, and to be rising higher and higher from the earth. At this time I had a view of the experience of the Advent believers, the coming of Christ, and the reward to be given to the faithful.”—Testimonies for the Church 5:654, 655.EGWATHW 1.3

“When my breath came again to my body, I could not hear anything. Everything was dark.... I asked where I was.EGWATHW 1.4

“‘You are right here in my house,’ said [Mrs. Haines] the owner of the house.EGWATHW 1.5

“‘What, here? I here? Do you not know about it?’ Then it all came back to me. Is this to be my home? Have I come here again? Oh, the weight and the burden which came upon my soul.”—E. G. White Ms. 16, 1894. (In Messenger to the Remnant, p. 6.)EGWATHW 1.6