She Visits Australia

In 1891 she went to Australia. In that great subcontinent the Advent Movement was already planting churches. There she stayed until 1900, writing, traveling, speaking, and very particularly helping found two major institutions, a school that was later to become a large college, and a medical institution.WBEGW 79.5

She returned to the United States in 1900 and bought a home about two miles from the town of St. Helena, which is situated some sixty miles north of San Francisco. She was now seventy-three years old. The years from 1901 onward were chiefly filled with writing, yet she still continued to travel. The last major journey to the East Coast was to a General Conference session in 1909.WBEGW 80.1

She also gave special attention to the founding of medical institutions in California. Her crowning endeavor was found in her counsels that led to the establishing of a medical school, now incorporated as a major feature of Loma Linda University. She died July 16, 1915, at the age of eighty-seven, and lies buried beside her husband in Battle Creek, Michigan.WBEGW 80.2

Well does the Dictionary of American Biography, in closing its rather extended sketch of her life, declare: “Her place in the denomination was unique. She never claimed to be a leader, but simply a voice, a messenger bearing communications from God to his people. Her life was marked by deep personal piety and spiritual influence, and her messages were an important factor in unifying the [Seventh-day Adventist] Churches.”—Vol. 20, p. 98.WBEGW 80.3