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Other reports put his health at about one-half recovered. He was still frail, but determined to move on by faith, looking forward to full restoration. He closed his report of their work in the vicinity of Greenville:

The days spent in Battle Creek were difficult, crucial, but successful. However, the large building was given up for the present. Hammers, saws, and trowels were laid aside, and church leaders were determined to follow the counsel given.

I was not dressed Wednesday and but a short time Thursday in the morning, until I dressed to start on the cars.... When we arrived at Jackson it was state fair, and such a crowd I never saw before. They were determined to crowd upon the platform.

[Father] is in a good state of mind, willing to be counseled and advised. He is not so determined and set to carry out his ideas. We have had as pleasant and harmonious a winter as we have ever enjoyed in our lives ( Letter 18, 1879 ).

Thirdly, he was endued with remarkable acuteness of perception to determine the most judicious moves to be made....Fourthly, he was a man who would never yield to discouragement. The word “fail” was not in his vocabulary....

She remembered the solemn vows she had made at the bedside of her dying husband—vows “to disappoint the enemy, to bear a constant, earnest appeal to my brethren” ( Manuscript 21, 1888 ). This she now determined to do.

… the determination to avoid debt, even though the work was at times slowed, and all concerned had to sacrifice and deprive themselves of ordinary comforts …

… fixed determination expressed their views and feelings very freely, and at last the representatives of the National Religious Liberty Association voted …

… more determined efforts to lead the people of the world to see that the day of judgment is at hand.”

… to determine when the break in the bone had taken place,—whether before the fall, thus causing Mrs. White to drop to the floor, or as the result of the fall.