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Life Sketches of Ellen G. White
“Mrs. White was intimately connected with the starting of the
college at Healdsburg, from which laborers have gone forth to all parts
of the world. That school is now continued in Pacific Union College,
near St. Helena, which has also received her hearty support.
“Having borne a great burden in the building up of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium, Elder and Mrs. White took special pleasure in encouraging
a like work in California, which resulted in the development of the St.
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Helena Sanitarium—started as the Rural Health Retreat. A lifelong
physical sufferer, Mrs. White’s sympathies have ever been drawn out
to the afflicted. In connection with three other medical missionary
enterprises in California,—at Paradise Valley, near San Diego; at
Glendale, near Los Angeles; and at Loma Linda,—Mrs. White has
borne heroic burdens and rendered great assistance. This is especially
true of the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda.
“In 1878 she visited Oregon. Here she attended Oregon’s first
camp meeting, at Salem....
“Her life was a life of sacrifice. In poverty, in ill health, in sickness
herself and with family ill, laboring with her hands in connection with
her husband, economizing to barest necessities of existence, minister-
ing to others hope and cheer under greatest discouragement herself,
she more than measured the span of her days in arduous self-denial
and self-forgetfulness for others’ sake. She has given away many times
over what would have kept her in ease. Her appeals to others have
been to do, do, do, for God and humanity; but in this she has been
greatly blessed of God. Coming down to death’s door many times, life
despaired of by friends, given up to die again and again by physicians,
she has been repeatedly and miraculously restored to health.
“Mrs. White ceased her work here as she began—poor in this
world’s goods. Her income from her books—no inconsiderable sum—
has been used freely in giving assistance to needy enterprises and
needy people. Her heart has always been sympathetic, and her own
hands have often ministered to the sick and suffering....
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“The life of Mrs. White lives after her. Enemies she has made by
her straightforward teaching and reproof. She has been maligned and
slandered. Those who know her best, can best judge her life. She was
human, subject to all the infirmities and weaknesses of the race; but
she found in Christ a precious Saviour and Helper. He called her to do