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The Retirement Years
Labored in camp meeting in Oakland July 6-16. Working hard to
complete The Acts of the Apostles. Attended camp meeting in Long
Beach, Calif, Aug. 10-20. Was wonderfully sustained when she gave
her last talk at the camp meeting, to a very large audience “I felt that
the everlasting arms were underneath me,” she wrote. Made a trip to
Loma Linda at the end of Oct. and spent a few weeks there, attending
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important meetings. W.C.W. had been in the East for some time,
and she met him in L.L. at this time. The Acts of the Apostles was
published late in 1911.
1912
Working as able on a book to take its place between PP and DA.
The material, already written, needed to be put into shape. “When this
book is completed, I shall feel that my work is finished,” She wrote.
Longed for a visit from Edson and Emma, and longed to visit Portland,
ME., once more. Left mid-March or a little earlier to attend important
meetings in So. Calif.—Ministerial Institute, Union Conf. session,
C.M.E. Constituency meeting. Gave several discourses, both in L.A.
and Loma Linda, the last one reported being on April 18.
Spoke to teachers and students at P.U.C. May 4. Conserving most
of her strength for work on the book on OT, from the time of Solomon
to Christ. Spoke again at P.U.C. Sept. 7. At Loma Linda again Nov.
6-Dec. 6. During week of prayer spoke in Calistoga one Sabbath and
at P.U.C. one Sabbath.
1913
At “Elmshaven,” maintaining her interest in the work, and laboring
to complete certain writings. “I am getting old, but I am doing all that
I can to glorify God,” she wrote. Wrote two messages for the General
Conference in session in Takoma Park in May. Had several interviews
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with leading workers; spoke a few times locally. Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students was published in 1913.
1914
Visited by her son, James Edson, for several weeks in spring of
1914. June 14, wrote “The Victorious Life”—last writing before her