My Dear Friend:

I am not going over thru the heavily falling snows to get your exact address at present; but I shall sit here at the double windows, looking out upon the frozen lake by the edge of which we live, and write to you this afternoon …

I recall that some of your relatives, as well as some of our own, do not yet have the Holy Spirit's Baptism as evidenced in New Testament fashion; and for each of you so to receive, I am very much concerned.

May I just here relate to you Two Visitations that will show from Heaven how important this experience is?  The first one that I record was given to me personally in 1932; the second one, to Mrs. Adams, at a date still earlier, in 1921--eighteen years ago.

In a visitation I was walking thru a woods in the autumn, with a group of fellow-teachers and a school superintendent, all of us being designated to teach together for the next year.  At least in the visitation I knew Mrs. Adams and I had been so elected and that school would begin "tomorrow".

As we walked, we came to a railway track, on which there was a large boulder; not too big for one to push off the track, and yet large enough to wreck a train.  The school superintendent said, "Well, as this is Sunday, we must not do the work of removing this boulder from the track."  Whereupon I remarked, "The first day of the week is not the Sabbath; and even if it were, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day," and with that I bent over and pushed the rock away.  Then I immediately added to the group that in a visitation God had shown me all at one time Four Essentials for Translation:  (1) The keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath; (2) the Holy Spirit's Tongues' Ministry abundantly in the life; (3) thoro belief in the Oneness, and, (4) the keeping of the monthly New Moon Sabbath.  As I said this (in the visitation) the other teachers turned and quickly walked away, embarrassed, and I knew I would probably be dismissed from the teaching force for having told the visitation.  Yet, in the visitation I knew if we were dismissed, Mrs. Adams and I could and would collect full pay for the whole year, because we had duly qualified and had been duly elected for teaching.  With this, the visitation vanished.