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sentiments, in <strong>the</strong> main, are obtained from previous<br />
teaching, or study. I do not by any means think her<br />
visions are like some from <strong>the</strong> devil."<br />
However true this extract may be in relation <strong>to</strong><br />
reveries, it is not true in regard <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> visions: for<br />
<strong>the</strong> author does not "obtain <strong>the</strong> sentiments" of her<br />
visions "from previous teaching or study." When<br />
she received her first vision, Dec. 1844, she and all<br />
<strong>the</strong> band in Portland, Maine, (where her parents<br />
<strong>the</strong>n resided) had given up <strong>the</strong> midnight-cry, and<br />
shut door, as being in <strong>the</strong> past. It was <strong>the</strong>n that <strong>the</strong><br />
Lord shew her in vision, <strong>the</strong> error in<strong>to</strong> which she<br />
and <strong>the</strong> band in Portland had fallen. She <strong>the</strong>n<br />
related her vision <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> band, and about sixty<br />
confessed <strong>the</strong>ir error, and acknowledged <strong>the</strong>ir 7th<br />
month experience <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong> work of God.<br />
It is well known that many were expecting <strong>the</strong><br />
Lord <strong>to</strong> come at <strong>the</strong> 7th month, 1845. That Christ<br />
would <strong>the</strong>n come we firmly believed. A few days<br />
before <strong>the</strong> time passed, I was at Fairhaven, and<br />
Dartmouth Mass., with a message on this point of<br />
time. At this time, Ellen was with <strong>the</strong> band at<br />
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