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The Eleven-Week Tour Through New England

As it turned out, the brethren in the East did want the Whites to come and invited Loughborough to come with them. When the tour was completed in mid-December, James White could report:

As evangelists labored in Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, they held their meetings in courthouses, often in churches when not closed to them, and in private homes. While on this tour White observed:

But there were delays, as she explained later. As they left for their eastern tour, which began August 19, 1863, she intended to finish her book on the journey. But she wrote:

The shortened issue, dated October 22, two days before the Whites were to leave for the eastern tour, carried James White's back page note that “Testimony No. 13 is now ready.”

On our eastern tour she improved all her spare time in writing such testimonies. She even wrote many of them in meeting while others were preaching and speaking.— Ibid.

On Monday morning, May 3, Ellen White returned to her home in the publishing house in Basel, but not for long. In less than three weeks she was off again on a tour of the Swiss churches.

… Eastern tour, and seeing that our carriage was about falling to pieces, purchased and gave us a suitable carriage for which he paid $85. For this we thank God …

… eastern tour with a good degree of satisfaction. Our expectations have been more than realized. We have in almost every place been happily disappointed …

… “Our Tour East.” Meetings were held at Johnson, Vermont, on July 6 and 7, with “quite a number of scattered brethren and sisters present” (AR, August, 1850).