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The Conference appointed a committee to outline plans, and an-
other committee to study the question of location; and it authorized the
holding of a worker’s training school while waiting for the selection
of a site and the erection of buildings.
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Sickness, and Change of Plans
It had been planned that Mrs. White, with her son and Elders
Daniells and Starr, should attend the New Zealand Conference, to
be held in April, 1892; but shortly after the close of the Melbourne
meeting, she suffered a severe attack of neuritis. When it became
evident that she could not attend the New Zealand meeting, she rented
a roomy cottage in Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne, and said
that she would do what she could to complete her long promised work
on the life of Christ.
From time to time, when the weather was favorable, Mrs. White
spoke at the Sabbath meetings of the Melbourne church. Sometimes,
when unable to ascend the stairs leading up to Federal Hall, she was
carried to the platform; and on two or three occasions, when unable to
stand, she spoke while sitting in an easy-chair.
The Opening of the Australasian Bible School
During the winter of 1892, Mrs. White watched with eager interest
the efforts that were made for the opening of the proposed school. In
April, she pleaded with the brethren in responsibility in America to
recognize the possibilities of the future, and provide facilities for the
training of a large force of workers who could advance into unentered
territory. “O, what a vast number of people have never been warned!”
she wrote. “Is it right that such a superabundance of opportunities and
privileges should be provided for the work in America, while there is
such a destitution of the right kind of workers here in this field? Where
are God’s missionaries?”
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“Our field is the world,” she urged. “The Saviour directed the disci-
ples to begin their work in Jerusalem, and then pass on through Judea
and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Only a small
proportion of the people accepted the doctrines; but the messengers
bore the message rapidly from place to place, passing from country