Lt 145, 1905

Burden, J. A.

Takoma Park, Maryland

May 24, 1905

This letter is published in entirety in PC 234-235. +^{NoteOne or more typed copies of this document contain additional Ellen White handwritten interlineations which may be viewed at the main office of the Ellen G. White Estate.}

Dear Brother Burden,—

We received your letter today. I wish to say that I cannot ask the conference to invest in a sanitarium at Redlands. They have enough responsibilities to carry without taking upon them other responsibilities. If you in Los Angeles will do your best, we will do our best. If you will do nothing, say so, and we will do nothing. If you will work intelligently, as we know you can, then we will do what we can. But if you do nothing, waiting for the conference, you will lose your chance. If you are going to depend on the conference’s purchasing it, I have no hope of your obtaining it.20LtMs, Lt 145, 1905, par. 1

Can you give us definite terms of payment? Then we shall know what to tell the people. I am anxious to secure the place for a sanitarium, but if you cannot state anything definite as to the terms of payment, we are left without any certain information.20LtMs, Lt 145, 1905, par. 2

Brother Burden, if you wait for Brother Santee to work out the plans, there will be no hope at all in the matter. I will not write more till I hear something further from you. Telegraph us at once the price of the property and the best terms of payment you can obtain.20LtMs, Lt 145, 1905, par. 3