The report, based on the memory of one person, that
Ellen G. White stated in a dinner-table conversation that the inhabitants of
other worlds are gathering fruit for the Sabbath-day entertainment of the translated
saints en route to heaven, is without support. The assertion that the words
were stenographically reported also is without foundation. Ellen G. White makes
only the simple statement in Early Writings, page 16, that "We were
seven days ascending to the sea of glass." No mention is made by Ellen
G. White of the Sabbath spent en route.
Thought for the Day
Jesus came in poverty and humiliation, that He might be our example as well as our Redeemer. If He had appeared with kingly pomp, how could He have taught humility? how could He have presented such cutting truths as in the Sermon on the Mount? Where would have been the hope of the lowly in life had Jesus come to dwell as a king among men? Desire of Ages, p. 138.