CHAPTER 28 RAPID MOVES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

AS EARLY as the summer of 1902 Mrs. White was urging the need for strong medical missionary work to be carried forward in southern California, a burden that she had carried on her heart for some months. To the General Conference president she wrote on September 5: “Brother Daniells, constantly the Lord is keeping southern California before me as a place where we must establish medical institutions. Every year this region is visited by many thousands of tourists. Sanitariums must be established in this section of the state.”—Ellen G. White Letter 138, 1902.SHM 335.1

As a very practical encouragement in such moves was the assurance that instead of being obliged to purchase land and to build at large cost, there might be found unusual bargains of suitable structures already built. “For months,” she wrote, “the Lord has given me instruction that He is preparing the way for our people to obtain possession, at little cost, of properties on which there are buildings that can be utilized in our work.”—Ellen G. White Letter 153, 1902.SHM 335.2