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them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes (Rev. 7:9-17).

1 See Appendix (p. 157) for Spirit of Prophecy statements indicated by
superior figures.

Willard Saxby and the Laodiceans

ACCORDING to the Seventh-day Adventist Yearbooks for 1890 to 1894, Willard H.
Saxby, an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, served in Ohio
during those years. He may have ministered there as late as 1902 or 1903. During
those years no Yearbooks were published. Consequently, we cannot be sure when he

moved from Ohio to Washington State, where his address is listed in the 1904
Yearbook.

Sometime during the five or six or more years Elder Saxby worked in Ohio, Ellen
White wrote a letter that told him some things about himself he had trouble seeing
and accepting.

Elder Saxby received the testimony during a camp meeting he was attending in Ohio.
It was part of a letter dealing with other matters, sent in care of a leading brother.
The testimony for Elder Saxby was delivered to him following the close of one of
the evening meetings.

While the other minister, whom Elder Saxby refers to as Elder A, and he sat together

in the latter's tent, Elder A asked Elder Saxby whether he believed in the
Testimonies. To this question Saxby answered decidedly in the affirmative. Then,
after they had prayed together, Elder A slowly read the letter, which was in Mrs.
White's handwriting.

The manuscript was eleven pages long. The first five were for Elder Saxby

personally.

After Elder A had read a few paragraphs he came to a statement to which Saxby
strongly objected. "That is not so!" he exclaimed, emphatically.

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