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The Times of Volume Nine
As we look at the times of volume 9 we view a five-year span
extending to the late summer of 1909. In Mrs. White’s experience
this period is opened and closed with trips from her home in St.
Helena, California, to the East to attend important meetings. For the
denomination it is a time of full recovery from the crisis of 1902-03
and of extending the work, of launching new enterprises, and of
establishing new institutions
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Following important meetings in Michigan in the spring of 1904,
Mrs. White visited the South and then made her way to Washington,
D. C., where steps were being taken to provide buildings for the
work which was being established at the nation’s capital. There was
a new headquarters building to be erected, the Review and Herald
must be provided with a home, a sanitarium was to be built, and
a college established. The fact that Mrs. White made her home
in Washington for some months, where she could give counsel
regarding the work, as these four enterprises were gotten under way,
was a great encouragement to the workers. It also exerted a far-
reaching influence throughout the denomination in establishing the
confidence of the church members that God had led in the transfer
of the administration and publishing interests to the nation’s capital
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This was a period of rapid advancement in the development of
our medical work on the Pacific Coast. Sanitariums were opened
in National City, Glendale, and Loma Linda, California. From
the first, Loma Linda seemed destined to become a training center
for medical workers at some future time to do the work for the
denomination begun at Battle Creek. During the critical years of
the establishment of the medical college, Mrs. White made frequent
visits to Southern California, where she could give personal counsel
and encouragement, and could assist in the laying of plans for the
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advancing work. It was utterances, based upon the revelations given
her of God, that led us step by step eventually to the establishment
of a fully recognized medical college. So insurmountable were the
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