“By midmorning, westbound trains arrived at the Oakland terminal. The tired, weary passengers rejoiced universally with the conclusion of the journey. It was a long, hard four-and-a-half days from Omaha, and most passengers had begun their trip from one to three days further east or south. After a week of noise, dust, and tobacco and locomotive smoke, the disembarking passengers looked forward to a warm bath and quiet rest.” 20. Cited in Land, The World of Ellen G. White, p. 83. For insights into the hardships that early Adventist workers endured, see Ibid., pp. 74-80. 21. Bio., vol. 1, pp. 232-234. 22. L. H. Christian recalled that “this article in the Review was read and discussed and used as an example to follow, but never thought of as something out of the ordinary.”—The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, p. 152. 23. Bio., vol. 1, pp. 346-349. See also p. 431. For another example of exciting but rigorous pioneer living, review the months spent in Texas during the winter of 1878-79 and the wagon train ordeal in the spring of 1879.—Ibid., pp. 98-120. 24. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860,” American Quarterly, vol. 8 (1966), p. 151, cited in Kathleen Joyce’s “An Ambiguous Woman: Victorian Womanhood and Religious Prophecy in the Life of Ellen Gould White,” 1991, an unpublished manu_script_. 25. Joyce, Ibid., p. 24. 26. Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 380. 27. Ibid., p. 391. 28. Ibid., p. 90. 29. Roger W. Coon, “Counsel to a Nervous Bridegroom,” Adventist Heritage, Summer, 1990, pp. 17-22.