“The next morning we attended meetings again in the meetinghouse. Your father spoke in the morning. But just before he spoke, the enemy made a poor, weak brother feel that he had a most astonishing burden for the church. He walked the slip, talked, and groaned, and cried, and had a terrible something upon him, which nobody seemed to understand. We were trying to bring those who professed the truth to see their state of dreadful darkness and backsliding before God, and to make humble confessions of the same, thus returning unto the Lord with sincere repentance, that He might return unto them, and heal their backslidings. Satan sought to hinder the work by pushing in this poor, distracted soul to disgust those who wished to move understandingly. I arose and bore a plain testimony to this man. He had taken no food for two days, and Satan had deceived him, and pushed him over the mark. {1T 656.1}

"Så talte din fader. Vi havde nogle få øjeblikkes pause og så prøvede jeg at tale om sundheds- og klædereformerne og frembar et klart vidnesbyrd til dem, som havde stået på de unges og ikke-troendes vej. Gud hjalp mig til at sige tydelige ting til bror Ball og til at fortælle ham i Herrens navn, hvad vi har gjort. Han blev tydeligt påvirket.