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LITTLE
ELLEN: The
Girl Who Saw Heaven
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WHISPERING FOR JESUS Satan
tried many times to discourage Ellen Harmon.
He tried to keep her from telling the messages that Jesus gave her.
He knew that they would help more people to believe in Jesus so he tried
to stop her. But
Ellen trusted Jesus. She prayed that He would give her strength to do all that
He asked her to do. She was still a very weak girl but Jesus always gave her
just enough strength to do what she needed to do. One
time Ellen had a sore throat. It lasted for many days. She was so hoarse that
she could not talk out loud. She could only whisper. How could she tell the
message now? Soon
there was a meeting. Ellen went to the meeting. The people wanted to hear her
speak. She believed that Jesus would help her, so she began to whisper the
message. In about five minutes her voice became clear and strong. In
those days they didn’t have microphones. When some one talked to a group of
people they had to speak clear and loud so everyone could hear and as Jesus
helped her, Ellen could do that. Her
throat was not sore. She was not hoarse. She spoke to the people for nearly two
hours. How glad they were to hear the message. Ellen Harmon was now a young
lady. She traveled to many places giving messages to the people. At
one of these places she met a minister named James White. Jesus knew she needed
a good husband to help take care of her as she worked for Him. Elder White was a
man who loved Jesus and His work just like she did. She became his wife. Then
people did not call her Ellen Harmon. They called her Mrs. White. Elder and Mrs.
White worked together. They traveled from place to place teaching and preaching. I
want to tell you a wonderful secret. Back in the Bible, all the prophets had
names that meant something; they told something about their work. Ellen’s name
means something too: Ellen
means Light or “Bright eyes”; Gould
(Her middle name) means Gold; Harmon
means Harmony or peace; White
of course means what it says. Now
in our Bible we have a verse where Jesus says to Buy from Him, Gold, White
raiment (clothes), and eyesalve- (to give us bright eyes) Then we can have Peace
in our hearts. |
