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At Elmshaven the staff began collecting material for publication concerning the Battle Creek issues. They expected it might make a book (29 WCW, p. 402).

Two of the women secretaries, Maggie Hare and Minnie Hawkins, both from Australia, were collecting materials on Ellen White's experiences in Europe and Australia.

As The Great Controversy was being prepared for wide distribution to the general public, some materials were deleted. W. C. White explained this:

Shortly afterward, the material, along with a vision given May 5, 1855, was published in a sixteen-page pamphlet. Although not numbered, it turned out to be Testimony No. 1.

The Civil War had changed the economy materially. This was vividly portrayed in a quotation from the (New York) Independent, which appeared in the Review of July 7, 1863:

It was advertised for thirty cents and soon reached out to members in both the East and West. It was from the material of this book that the early 1876 Signs articles were drawn.

But the proposed trip did not materialize. For Ellen it continued to be an almost prostrating situation. On April 19 she wrote to the children in the West:

Deletion of Materials Especially Intended for Adventists

She little realized the ominous nature of the situation, for this was the onset of a prolonged and painful illness that was to affect her ministry in Australia materially.

So Ellen White and her staff thought; but it did not work out that way. Three or four months later there was more material to be added. Wrote Ellen White on June 1, 1896: