Ellen G. White
world. Sometimes i lhink I cannot stay here any longer, aU things of earth look so dreary_I fed very looely hre , (or I have .seen a beller land. 0, that I had winS' like II. dove, then would I Dr away, and be al resl TOPSIIAM, Mo., April 7, 164.7 Dcor Brother Baftl :-Lns! S(lLb:.(h we met with the dear brethren lind siler'3 hero, who meet at Bro. 1:11)\\,\I\Oil'8 VI' felt an unu5unlspiri' o(prllyer. And as we _ prayed, the H oly Ghost fell UP"11 us. \Ve wero very hapl'Y' Soon I Willi lost to <larthly Ihillg, and 11'11.\1 wral'ped up ill 11 vision of God glory. I IInw lin ILUgCl8winly fiying to IIle. He '1uickly cnr ri ed me from the carlh to the Holy City. In tbe tHy I anw II temple, which I Clltllred. I PM5t:clthrough II donrbefore I came tn tho first vail . Thi vail \\'0.8 rllied, !lOll 1 1'!L1II!!cJ iOlo tbo Holy PIMe. HIHO I SillY the Altnr of Ineen.'lo, tho cnntllestit:k with 60ven lamps, IIntl th o toble on which WII8 tho IIhow bread,otc. After viewillg the glury of the Ho!>', Je5u raised tbe second veil, anti I passed illtu the Holy of Holie!!. (a III tbe Holiest 1 saIY lin IIrk ; on the top nnd 8ide ot it was purest old. On <:lncll end of tho !Irk WtlS [\ lovely CheruiJ, II ilh their wlllgs spread out over it. Thir flleelJ were turnetl to ward" each other, ond tboy looked du\\"nwanl. (b) Behven the nngel waa II goMen eensol'. Abovo the IIrk, where the aIL sult 1I0od, WUS 11ft C):ccedin lJright glory, Ihllt IlJlpeared like a throne wheL-e God dll'elt. (0) J(lUil slood by the IIrk. And 119 the saints' prayeri! CIUllO up I() J"Moe, tho inccll$e in the eenor would smoke, aud He off't/red ul' the !'rllyeN of the saint with the smnke oflhe iLlCCn!e to Hi Fother. (d) In the (Irk, wos Ihe golden put of m,mnn, Anron's rod Ihlll hudded, nni! tbe ta bl e8 of tono which faMed together like \1 bouk. (0) Jesus open ed them, fllld I'lnv the ten enmlnundments written on them with the finr!er of Got!. if) On one teble W(lS ((Jur, ent! on the other 8i.'(. l'ho four 011 the firt table hone brighter than Ihe other ait. But the fourth (the Sahbath r.omlltnndmcnt,) shone above them 011 ; for Iho So!.Jbnlh WIIS sel aplu·t to he kept itl honor of God' holy M'ne. (I{) The holy Sttbbnth looked glo rlOIl$-a h:llo of "lory WIIS 1111 around il. J anw that the SliD hllth WII nul uniied to the erou. Ifit wn, theothllr nine com rnll"uments weI'<> ; anll we ftrc at Ilheny to go ("rth on.1 hrenk Ih .. m ClII, as willi as to ' renk tho fourth. IIII'\\' thllt God hlld 4nol chttnge,1 the 80hl,"h , (or He ne,"cr changes. (h) But the Pope hnd changed it from tho seveoth to the first L1ay of the week, fol' he wns 10 ehnnge limes linn 11111'1. (i And I IIIW thnt if Gcxl bull changed the Snhhllth, from the sefenth to the firt doy, He woulll have changetlthe writing of the 81\lobath eommnndmcnt, writleo on the toble! of alone which IIrc nnw in the ark, in tbo Most Holy PII,ee of tho Tern I'le in be\1von; G) and il would rend thuB: 'rhefirtu8Y is the I Reb. 9: 1-24. liE:. 2.5: 18_22. Ex: 2.5: 20_22 llRev.8: 3,4. fHeb.9: 4. /Ex.31: 18. 1'1&.58: 13,14 hMaI.3:6. iDan.7:23. jRtv.ll:19 digitized by InspiredBooks.de