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… meeting closed, all who could ... shook my hand heartily saying, ‘God bless you for the words you have spoken.... May the Lord long preserve you.’”— Letter 11, 1885 .

When the testimony meeting closed they had been together in meeting for four hours. “Many with tears say this is the best meeting that they ever experienced,” Mrs. White wrote to G. I. Butler, the General Conference president.

As the brief, four-day council closed on Friday, June 17, W. C. White had a marked impression of its success. He pronounced it “the most harmonious, and profitable meeting” that he had ever attended.

… president closed his opening address, surrendered the office that he had held for two years, and declared:

… night closed in upon the world. But with that darkness came a pang of disappointment to the Advent believers that can find a parallel only in the sorrow of …

… John closed up the revelation in A.D. 96. But if this opinion is correct, then the last days ended while John was on the isle of Patmos.— Ibid.

Another retrospective Ellen G. White declaration was penned in August, 1874. It deals with a charge made by Miles Grant, a first-day Adventist minister, that she had declared on the basis of the visions that probation for the world had closed:

In 1883 Ellen White wrote at length on the subject in answer to a charge brought against her that her visions taught that probation closed for the world in 1844. It is one of the few statements written by her in her own defense:

As they closed this part of the examination, she arose to her feet, still in vision, holding a Bible high up, turning from passage to passage, quoting correctly, although the eyes were looking upward and away from the Book.

There was a receptive mood for the counsel and instruction God gave through the visions. The church in Round Grove, Illinois, closed its letter to the general conference held in Battle Creek with these words: