As in the vision she looked upon this scene with intense sorrow, her accompanying angel said, “Look ye,” and as she looked again, there were to be seen little jets of light, like stars shining dimly through the darkness. As she watched them, their light grew brighter, and the number of lights increased, because each light kindled other lights. These lights would sometimes come together as if for the encouragement of one another; and again they would scatter out, each time going farther and lighting more lights. Thus the work went on until the whole world was illuminated with their brightness. (LS 295.1) MC VC

In conclusion, she said: “This is a picture of the work you are to do. ‘Ye are the light of the world.’ Matthew 5:14. Your work is to hold up the light to those around you. Hold it firmly. Hold it a little higher. Light other lights. Do not be discouraged if yours is not a great light. If it is only a penny taper, hold it up. Let it shine. Do your very best, and God will bless your efforts.” [Note—In the official reports of the progress of the third angel’s message in Great Britain, frequent acknowledgment has been made from time to time of the influence that the sale of penny periodicals has had on the development of a strong constituency in that field of labor. “Publications have been sent to all parts of the kingdom,” the workers reported in 1888, “and faithful souls are being aroused to embrace the truth, and scores are candidly investigating it.” (The Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook 1888, 130.) at the 1895 General Conference, it was stated that “the average weekly sales of Present Truth [the missionary journal published by Seventh-Day Adventists in Great Britain since 1884] have run from nine thousand to ten thousand.” “Nothing that has been done in Great Britain has had such marked effect on the people as the circulation of this paper.” (BULLETIN, 1895, PAGES 314, 315.) and in 1897 the brethren from Europe were rejoicing in a still larger circulation of their missionary journal. “The present truth has an average circulation of thirteen thousand copies weekly,” they declared, “and many are coming to a knowledge of the truth in reading this medium.” During the 1909 General Conference, Brother W. C. Sisley, in charge of the British publishing house, reviewed the results of the past four years thus:] “We have sold, during the last four years, exclusive of our considerable foreign trade, 168,947 books, 6,871,649 periodicals, 23,382 pamphlets, and 964,163 tracts, at a total retail value of $310,221.57; or a yearly average of 42,237 books, 1,717,912 periodicals, 5,840 pamphlets, 241,041 tracts, at an average annual retail value of $77,555. We have 207 regular book and periodical canvassers, an average of one out of every eight of our members.... The net profits of our publishing work during the past four years have been $19,878. The tract society has donated that sum, and $12,832 more of its former profits, or a total of $32,710, to the British Union property fund.” —The General Conference Bulletin 1909, 96. (LS 295.2) MC VC

“In southern California there are many properties for sale on which buildings suitable for sanitarium work are already erected. Some of these properties should be purchased, and medical missionary work carried forward on sensible, rational lines. Several small sanitariums are to be established in southern California for the benefit of the multitudes drawn there in the hope of finding health. Instruction has been given me that now is our opportunity to reach the invalids flocking to the health resorts of southern California, and that a work may be done also in behalf of their attendants....” (LS 400.1) MC VC

“Instead of investing in one medical institution all the means obtainable, we ought to establish smaller sanitariums in many places. Soon the reputation of the health resorts in southern California will stand even higher than it stands at present. Now is our time to enter that field for the purpose of carrying forward medical missionary work.” —Ms. as Published in the Medical Evangelist, Vol. 1 No. 2. (LS 400.2) MC VC

During the years when such counsels as these were being given, Mrs. White visited southern California on several occasions, in the hope of encouraging the brethren to persevere in their search for properties suitable for use as medical institutions. At times, in visions of the night there were given her flash-light pictures of sanitariums in running order. These representations she endeavored to write out and pass on to the brethren in responsibility. At other times there was brought vividly before her mind instruction given in past years as to the aim and object of medical missionary work, and as to the pattern that should be followed in establishing and maintaining sanitarium enterprises in different parts of the world. (LS 400.3) MC VC