Another letter dated May 31, 1905, reads as follows:
(PH094 23.4)
“We hope to see you soon now, but in regard to the purchase of ‘Loma Linda,” I will say, go ahead. I hope to be able to help by giving the proceeds from a certain number of copies of ‘Ministry of Healing.’ I can do no more except to borrow. I wish the place purchased. Do not neglect to tell me all I ought to know. I have been looking over your descriptive letter, and I am well satisfied that the place is one that we ought to have. It is cheap at forty thousand dollars. 24We will not leave you, but will stand back of you and help you to raise the means.
(PH094 23.5)
“In regard to the right man to manage the institution. I am confident that we shall find some one when the right time comes.
(PH094 24.1)
“If we do not succeed in getting this place, then we shall have to search for another; but I believe the Lord means that we shall have this place and that money can be obtained to purchase it. Let not this opportunity slip, for just such a place has been presented before me, that would be greatly to our advantage to obtain.
(PH094 24.2)
“W. C. White sent the telegram yesterday with a decided affirmation to purchase the place.”
(PH094 24.3)
“I am much encouraged by the letters that I have received from you regarding Loma Linda.
(PH094 25.1)
From your descriptions of this place, I believe it meets the representation which I have seen of what we should seek for as sanitarium locations. Such a place was presented to me a few miles from an important city. The city had recently been built up.
(PH094 25.1)
“I have tried to place before our people the representations given me regarding sanitariums in the country, and I have urged upon them the necessity of establishing our sanitariums outside of the cities. I have had repeatedly presented to me the advantage of securing locations some miles out of the cities. Those who follow the counsel of God in providing places where the sick and suffering can receive proper treatment, will be guided to the right places for the establishment of their work.
(PH094 26.1)
“Let our sanitariums be located where there is an abundance of land. I can see the advantage of such a place as Loma Linda. The Lord worked to help us to secure this property. The work of this institution is to be carried forward on pure, elevated lines. It can be conducted in such a way that truth will be presented as the rock upon which to build.
(PH094 26.2)
“In order that our institutions shall teach right lessons, there must be connected with them men of such simplicity that they are willing to learn of the great Teacher.
(PH094 26.3)
“We need workers who will gain breadth of mind by studying the book God has opened before us of His created works. Angels cooperate with those who proclaim the truths represented by the things of nature. These things are not God, but they are specimens of God’s handiwork.
(PH094 26.4)
“Our medical workers are to do all in their 27power to cure disease of the body and also disease of the mind. They are to watch and pray and work, bringing spiritual as well as physical advantages to those for whom they labor. The physician in one of our sanitariums who is a true servant of God has an intensely interesting work to do for every suffering human being with whom he is brought in contact. He is to lose no opportunity to point souls to Christ, the great Healer of body and mind. Every physician should be a skillful worker in Christ’s lines. There is to be no lessening of the interest in spiritual things, else the power to fix the mind upon the great Physician will be diverted. While the needs of the body are to be strictly attended to, while all possible efforts are to be made to break the power of disease, the physician is never to forget that there is a soul to be labored for.
(PH094 26.5)
“God would draw minds from the conviction of logic to a conviction deeper, higher, purer, and more glorious, a conviction unperverted by human logic. Human logic has often nearly quenched the light which God would have shine forth in clear rays to convince minds that the God of nature is worthy of all praise and all glory, because He is the Creator of all things.”
(PH094 27.1)
“This is the very place that has been shown me and we must have it.”
(PH094 27.2)
“This proposed school at Loma Linda,” said she, “must be molded by the early spirit of the message. We must try to get such men as Eld. S. N. Haskell to connect with it, in order that our students in training for service as medical missionary evangelists may get a new view of the work.”“We are now,” said she, “farther from the pattern than when our medical work first started.”
(PH094 32.1)
On June 26, 1905, Sister White wrote as follows:
(PH094 32.2)
“It is just daylight, and I am seated on my couch beginning a letter to you. There are many matters to be considered; and we all need the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
(PH094 32.3)
“I shall be pleased to hear from you at any time. I sincerely hope the brethren in Southern California will unite in pressing forward the school work and the sanitarium work. I hope that ----- will move understandingly in reference to the sanitariums already in operation, and also in regard to the new sanitarium. I pray that the Lord may provide suitable help to connect with this institution.
(PH094 32.4)
“Do not be discouraged if in any wise there is some cutting across your plans, and if you are somewhat hindered. I hope that we shall never again have to meet the hindrances that we have had to meet in the past because of the way in which some things have been conducted in some lines in Southern California. I have seen the ‘hold-back’ principles followed, and I have seen the displeasure of the Lord because of this. If the same spirit is manifested. I shall not consent to keep silence as I have done.”
(PH094 33.1)