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She was right, for on Tuesday, April 22, he had his third stroke of paralysis. The stroke was not as crippling as the first one, in August 1865. It was, however, the most severe. Ellen reported what happened:

On one occasion Ellen, writing from the campground to Willie and Mary, said, “Children, I believe it was my duty to attend this meeting. I am coming out all right as far as health is concerned if I rest and do not labor too hard” ( Letter 30, 1876 ).

I think I can do it as well here in Europe as in America. Make just such arrangements as you please. If Marian is worn and has her plans arranged to stay, I can send writing there, but if you think it advisable for her to come, all right ( Ibid. ).

… upon right principles in dietetic reform, and the use of rational, or nature's remedies in the treatment of disease; ...

Things have not been moving in right lines, and I must, in the fear of God, bear my testimony personally to those who are in danger of swaying the work disproportionately in the so-called medical missionary lines ( Letter 123, 1900 ).

… representatives right here at this place now, and the Lord has bidden me, Have no interview with Dr. Kellogg, no counsel whatever with that man” ( Ibid., 17 ).

The crisis is here. The settlement must now be made. We shall do everything in our power to win every brother over to the right side, but we cannot compromise nor surrender the banner at this time (AGD to WCW, April 24, 1903).

“I do not believe your prophecy. At any rate, I would rather be rolled in the dust doing what I believe in my soul to be right than to walk with princes, doing what my conscience tells me is wrong” ( Ibid., 337 ).

“‘All right,’ Mr. Hamilton said, ‘I have my answer. The Lord would not give us an elephant without providing water for it to drink’” (Johns and Utt, p. 146). He declared that he would go on digging.

… the right, presenting truth unmixed with the falsities that have been stealthily creeping in ( Letter 135, 1905 ).