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presented to me with the word that it should have a fully equipped
sanitarium.
“‘Why have such fields as Redlands and Riverside been left almost
unworked? ... The Lord would have brave, earnest men and women
take up His work in these places. The cause of God is to make more
rapid advancement in southern California than it has in the past. Every
year thousands of people visit southern California in search of health,
and by various methods we should seek to reach them with the truth.
They must hear the warning to prepare for the great day of the Lord,
which is right upon us.... Workers who can speak to the multitudes
are to be located where they can meet the people, and give them the
warning message.... Let them be quick to seize opportunities to place
present truth before those who know it not. Let them give the message
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with clearness and power, that those who have ears to hear may hear.’
“These words were written before I had learned anything about
the property at Loma Linda. Still the burden of establishing another
sanitarium rested upon me. In the fall of 1903 I had a vision of a
sanitarium in the midst of beautiful grounds, somewhere in southern
California, and no property I had visited answered to the presentation
given in this vision. At the time, I wrote about this vision to our
brethren and sisters assembled at the Los Angeles camp meeting early
in September, 1903.
“While attending the General Conference of 1905, at Washington,
D. C., I received a letter from Elder J. A. Burden, describing a
property he had found four miles west of Redlands, five and one
half miles southeast of San Bernardino, and eight miles northeast of
Riverside. As I read his letter, I was impressed that this was one of the
places I had seen in vision
“Later, when I visited this property, I recognized it as one of the
places I had seen nearly two years before in vision. How thankful I am
to the Lord our God for this place, which is all prepared for us to use
to the honor and glory of His name!”
The Review and Herald, June
21, 1906
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To the delegates assembled at the 1909 General Conference, Mrs.
White outlined some of the experiences connected with the estab-
lishment of medical missionary work on a solid basis in southern
California, and referred particularly to the prospering hand of God