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Satan's Attack. “Monday we commenced our journey homeward. . . . While riding in the cars we arranged our plans
for writing and publishing the book called the Great Controversy, immediately on our return home. I was then as well
as usual. On the arrival of the train at Jackson, we went to Bro. Palmer's. We had been in the house but a short time,
when, as I was conversing with Sr. P., my tongue refused to utter what I wished to say, and seemed large and numb.
A strange, cold sensation struck my heart, passed over my head, and down my right side. For a while I was insensible;
but was aroused by the voice of earnest prayer. I tried to use my left arm and limb, but they were perfectly useless.
For a short time I did not expect to live. For several weeks I could not feel the pressure of the hand, nor the coldest
water poured upon my head. In rising to walk, I often staggered, and sometimes fell to the floor. In this condition I
commenced to write the Great Controversy. I could write at first but one page a day, then rest three; but as I
progressed, my strength increased. The numbness in my head did not seem to becloud my mind, and before I closed
that work the effect of the shock had entirely left me.” {3SM 99-100}
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
“God cannot use men who in time of peril, when the strength, courage, and influence of all are needed, are afraid to
take a firm stand for the right. He calls for men who will do faithful battle against wrong, warring against principalities
and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. It is to such
as these that he will speak the words: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; . . . enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’”
{RH, September 11, 1913}
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