关于洛马林达疗养院和医疗布道士学院的证言和经验
“天上的上帝受了羞辱。你们找到了一个地方，投资在各种企业上，好像任由我在其它地方的工作在贫穷和赤裸中挣扎是一种美德似的。你们没有照你们本来能够做的分享你们丰富的设施，即使所需要的牺牲对你们来说可能是很大的。{PH094 4.1}
地球所提供的一切都不足以补偿因看到上帝的子民行事违背上帝的旨意、阻碍圣工、使上帝有必要从出版协会和区会收回祂使人兴旺的手而感到的心灵的生产之苦与重担和精神的极度痛苦。”{PH094 4.2}
“于是考验临到了疗养院。上帝使他们兴旺，不是要他们自高自大，而是要他们将他们的财物分给别人。当祂的仆人们被派到澳大利亚时，你们本应该明白，上帝会藉着他们行事，你们本应该慷慨地拨款以推进工作。医疗布道工作在此之前就应该建立在稳固的根基上。不应该扣留资金。主已让祂惩罚的手落在《评论与通讯》出版社上，因为他们不愿听从祂的声音。自足自负的管理者们阻碍了道路，使祂的工作不能前进。主呼吁巴特尔克里克疗养院扩展她的工作，将这里的健康机构安置在一个适当的基础上。这是两年前就应该完成的事。这种扣留容易导致贫穷。”{PH094 6.1}
“我们已经到了一个时候，每一位教会的信徒都应当从事医疗布道的工作。”“基督本身已不在世上周流各城镇乡村医治病人了;但祂已经委托我们继续进行祂所开创的医疗布道工作。”{PH094 7.1}
“上帝一直藉着我说话，以下我说的话就是祂说的：凡从事教育、传道，以及医疗布道各项工作的人，都当团结一致。”“医疗布道工作还处在婴孩期。只有很少的人知道真正的医疗布道工作的意义。为什么呢?——因为人们没有遵循救主的工作计划。”{PH094 7.2}
“那位伟大的医疗布道士基督乃是我们的模范。祂一面传福音，一面医治病人。在祂的服务上，医治人和教训人二者是密切相连的。在今日，这两件事也不可分开。我们的机构中训练出来的护士，也该有资格担任医疗布道士，使传道和治疗的工作联络并进。”{PH094 7.3}
“我们要将护士，传道人，文字布道士，及传福音的学生等组织成团队，并给予极充分的训练。”{PH094 7.4}
“从主所不时给我的教训上，我知道应该有一种专门旅行各村各镇做医疗传道工作的人。做这工作的人在上下各等人中间，都必收美满救人的效果。”{PH094 8.1}
“但愿凡已在传道工作上有经验的我们的传道人，也学习如何实施简易治疗法，然后就可聪敏地从事医疗布道工作了。那位伟大的医疗布道士基督乃是我们所有人应当效法的模范。”{PH094 8.2}
“主呼召我们的青年进入我们的学校，迅速准备从事服务。要在许多离开城市的地方开办学校，使我们的青年能获得相当的教育，准备出去从事福音传道和医疗布道的工作。”{PH094 8.3}
南加州的开拓工作
需要经济援助
“多年来，加利福尼亚州南部的工作一直需要帮助，我们现在呼吁有多余资金的弟兄姐妹们将其投入流通，使我们能买下很适合我们工作的地方。{PH094 9.1}
“上帝不喜悦这个园地受到忽视的方式。亮光应该从加利福尼亚州南部的许多地方照耀大众。现代真理应当像城造在山上，是不能隐藏的。{PH094 9.2}
“在加利福尼亚州南部，有许多有待出售的房地产，其中建有适合疗养院工作的建筑物。这些产业中有一些我们应当买下来，使医疗布道工作能以明智合理的方法推进。当在加利福尼亚州南部建立几家小型疗养院，造福因期盼得到健康而被吸引到那里的大众。我蒙指示，得知现在就是我们的机会，可以接近涌向加利福尼亚州南部健康疗养胜地的病人们，而且也有一番工作可以为陪伴他们的人去做。{PH094 9.3}
“数月以来，我一直牵挂着加利福尼亚州南部的医疗布道工作。近来关于上帝期望我们如何进行疗养院的工作，我得到了许多亮光。我们当鼓励病人花大部分光阴在户外。我蒙指教，要告诉我们的弟兄们在有益于健康的地方留心寻找便宜理想的产业，适合用作疗养院。{PH094 10.1}
“我们不应当在一个医疗机构中投入所有能获得的财力，而应当在许多地方建立较小的疗养院。不久，加利福尼亚州南部健康疗养胜地的声誉就要比现在高得多。我们现在就当为推进医疗布道工作而进入到那个园地。”{PH094 10.2}
离开城市
(1902年10月13日写与加利福尼亚州圣赫勒那)
“我留在加利福尼亚州南部的时候，能访问许多地方，主在过去曾把这些地方显在我面前，作为适合建立疗养院和学校的场所。几年来我蒙特别的启示，不要把我们的工作集中在城市之内，因为城市中充满了扰攘及混乱。还有那由工会及罢工所造成的情形，将对于我们的工作大有阻碍。{PH094 10.3}
“人们正在设法，使各行各业的人在各种工会之下受着辖制。这种计划不是出于上帝，乃是出于那我们始终不应予以承认的权力。上帝的话正在应验中;恶人正在自行联合起来像禾捆，预备被焚烧。{PH094 11.1}
“我蒙指示，加利福尼亚州南部的工作应该拥有它现在还没享有的便利。我蒙指示看见加利福尼亚州南部有房地产出售，其上楼房已盖好，可以用于我们的工作，而且这种财产会以远远低于最初成本的价位出售给我们。在这些远离拥挤城市的喧嚣与混乱的地方，我们可以建立疗养院，病人可以按照上帝计划的方式得到照顾。我们在努力帮助病人时，要带他们离开城市，在那里他们不断受到车水马龙噪音的骚扰，除了房子没什么可看，要把他们安置在周围都是自然景色的地方，在那里他们可以享有新鲜空气和阳光的福气。{PH094 11.2}
“这个问题在澳大利亚时就摆在我面前。亮光赐给我，说明各城会充满混乱、暴力和罪行，而且这些事会增多，直到这世界历史的结束。关于这一点有许多要说的。要律上加律，例上加例，这里一点，那里一点地赐下指示。我们的医生和教师应该敏于看见适合我们的疗养院和学校的幽静地方的有利条件。{PH094 11.3}
“像我提到的这些地产正在提供给我们，其中一些若显然是我们所需要的，而且可以制定条款，使我们购买它们而没有重债，我们就应该购买。这些地方若有果园，那就更好了，然而其它地产若有我们所需要的建筑物，树是可以栽种的。{PH094 12.1}
“事实上，在许多情况下，这些地产的业主急于把它们处理掉，因此愿意以低价出售，这对我们很有利。我们在钱财支出上必须研究节俭。在我们工作的这个阶段，我们不要在任何一个城市建造大厦。我们也不要在任何地方的工作中遵循铺张的和过大的计划。我们要记住各城一直受到忽视，现在必须开工。在这些城市的人必须拥有真理的亮光。在我们建立的疗养院中，我们不要花大笔金钱建起昂贵的楼房;因为有许多地方要开工。我们要聪明地获得已经提供给我们的、主愿意让我们拥有的有利条件。我们在努力以低价获得乡间地产时，要灵巧像蛇，驯良像鸽子。我们要从这些前哨中心去为城市作工。{PH094 12.2}
“在加利福尼亚州南部的工作要比以往更加迅速地推进。放在银行里或埋在地里的钱现在要调集出来加强加利福尼亚州南部的工作。每一年都有成千上万的游客访问加利福尼亚州南部，我们应该用各种方法设法使他们接触真理。”{PH094 12.3}
另一个地方的描绘
(1904年8月8日写于加州疗养院)
“在过去的五年时间里，主在夜间的异象中用表号一再指示我们要进行疗养院的工作，帮助病人恢复身心的健康。1901年10月10日夜里，我十一点钟以后睡不着觉。有关疗养院的许多事情藉着表号和象征指示我。我蒙指示：洛杉矶附近的疗养院运行良好。在一处我看到疗养院的工作在一幢美丽的建筑中进行。建筑周围有许多果树。这个机构远离城市，充满生机活力。{PH094 14.1}
“我在夜间的异象中看到的这个美丽地方的场地上，有许多能遮荫的树，树枝垂下来，形成了多叶的树冠，有点像帐篷。病人在这些树冠下休息。病人喜欢周围的环境。一些人在工作，另一些人在唱歌。没有任何不满的迹象。{PH094 14.2}
“我醒了，一段时间都睡不着。许多生动的场景在我面前经过，我无法忘记我对工作人员和病人说过的话。弟兄姐妹们：基督指示我对你们说：圣灵会藉着祂的恩典感动软化你们的心。主必引导你们，将祂的道指教你们。”{PH094 14.3}
在雷德兰兹和里弗赛德附近
“某某弟兄，我希望你在雷德兰兹看到一个合适的地方能用作疗养院，以合理的价格出售时，你要让我们知道这事。我们需要在雷德兰兹有一所疗养院。我们若不开办这种企业，别人就会开办。我了解业主们担心肺病患者会进来，这地方的名声就毁了。但是，当然了，我们应该说明我们不要是建一个肺病患者之家。{PH094 15.1}
“我提到这事只是以便你和伯登弟兄将它放在心上。我们不会采取任何步骤在雷德兰兹建立一个疗养院，直到我们确信我们正在做正确的事情。伯登弟兄和你可以不时地访问这个地方，看看那里有什么机会。凡你们所行的，都要灵巧像蛇，驯良像鸽子。”{PH094 15.2}
“在加利福尼亚州南部有两所运作良好的疗养院，你不知道我有多感恩。我希望这些机构能成就大善工。我很高兴读到你所写一些上层人士来圣迭哥疗养院就医。我们需要接触这等人。时间很短促了。主希望真理在大道小路上传扬。上帝的使者会行在那些高举旗帜聪明地宣扬真理的人前头。{PH094 16.1}
“最后，我要求你们记住将来在雷德兰兹也需要一所疗养院。你有机会时就认真考察这块地方，把你的发现告诉我们。我们不要让别人抢了先，把我们关在外面。现在正是进行周密调查的时候。”{PH094 16.2}
“我听说正在制定计划，让W.W.辛普森长老离开加利福尼亚州南部。我曾希望看到他把工作从洛杉矶扩展到雷德兰兹和里弗赛德。雷德兰兹和里弗赛德作为应当作工的地方呈现在我面前。这两个地方不应再被忽视。我希望不久就能看到为它们付出认真的努力。请考虑在这些城镇附近建立疗养院的可取性，在每个地方都有治疗室作为该机构的支线。”{PH094 16.3}
“我们在加利福尼亚州南部各教会的人应该醒来，去做一项在他们自己的境内必须做成的工作。要叫他们醒起、祷告、作工。他们需要更多属灵的活力。他们需要新的归正，以便不知疲倦地为救灵效劳。无论哪里有属灵的生命，那里就必有亮光和福气的传授和领受。来自上帝圣言的滋养会得到领受，且会作成认真的工作。传授的行为使领受的通道保持畅通。我们的救主总是设法将这个真理保持在人们面前。{PH094 17.1}
我们疗养院的使命
“我有一个信息要传给在加利福尼亚州南部的教会肢体们：要醒来，并利用你们所拥有的机会。趁着基督还在为你们请求，要为你们自己请求，以便你们得以洁净，脱离每一个不义的想法、每一个不圣洁的行为。要将灵与魂与身子全然交给上帝。下定决心，尽你们所能去学习拯救灵魂的真正科学。趁着上帝的仁慈之光依然闪耀的时候，收集起每一道神圣的光芒。{PH094 17.2}
“如果管理得当，我们的疗养院就能发挥一种文雅的、使人高尚的影响，引导多人归向基督。这些机构中所坚持的宗教原则将证明，因罪恶而疲倦生病的灵魂是可以得到解脱的。许多人因为心灵的疾病而虚弱和生病。要让基督被高举在他们面前，作为伟大的医治者，祂邀请他们到祂这里来得安息。要告诉他们，基督倾心怜悯和关爱祂的血所买来的产业。祂必医治那本着信心仰望祂的烦恼的心。”{PH094 17.3}
“要向可怜的、患罪病的人重述救主的邀请：‘凡劳苦担重担的人可以到我这里来，我就使你们得安息。我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式;这样，你们心里就必得享安息。因为我的轭是容易的，我的担子是轻省的’(太11:28-30)。在学习基督的过程中有真正的喜乐。{PH094 18.1}
“要把富有同情的救主介绍给受苦的人。祂是唯一能治愈身体和灵魂的医生。祂为世人舍命，叫人不至灭亡，反得永生。祂正怀着恻隐之心垂顾那些觉得自己病情已毫无希望的人。{PH094 18.2}
“人的心中若充满恐惧，就看不见基督温柔的同情。我们的疗养院要成为一个媒介，把平安和安息带给心中烦恼的人。如果你能用充满希望、使人得救的信心鼓舞灰心的人，满足和喜乐就会代替失望和不安。他们的身体状况就会发生奇妙的改变。基督会使人的身体和心灵得恢复，他们既体验到祂的同情和仁爱，就在祂里面得安息。祂是明亮的晨星，照在这犯罪败坏的世界道德的黑暗中。祂是世上的光，凡把自己的心献给祂的人都会得到平安、安息和喜乐。”{PH094 18.3}
“刚才读了你的信。我刚看完就说：我不会征求任何人的意见，因为我对这件事毫无疑问。……要尽一切办法得到那块地产，以便占有它，然后获得你足能支付的所有钱来占有那个地方。这就是我们应该拥有的那块地产。不要耽搁;因为它正是我们所需要的。{PH094 20.1}
“我认为可以获得足够的帮助来完成这件事。我希望你确保在得到购买那块地产的权利方面不会浪费时间。我们将尽最大努力帮助你筹集资金。我知道雷德兰兹和里弗赛德应当开工，我祈求主开恩，不要让别人而不是我们得到这块地产。{PH094 20.2}
“这是主的话。要开辟每一个可能的地方。我们应当本着信心操劳，持定那保证要为我们行大事的能力。我们应当本着信心在洛杉矶、在雷德兰兹和里弗赛德向外传播。{PH094 20.3}
“我们如果得不到这块地方，那就得另找一个地方;因为应该立刻开办一家疗养院。但我相信主的意思是要我们得到这块地方。可以筹到钱去买下来。不要放过这个机会，因为向我呈现的正是这个地方。得到它对我们很有好处。愿主让祂的子民认识到在加利福尼亚州南部长期疏忽的工作。我昨天下午发了一封电报，强调要把这个地方买下来。”{PH094 20.4}
“我一直在等待再一次听到你关于雷德兰兹附近地方的消息，就是你不久前曾写过的地方。我希望能得到这个地方，因为我认为主已使我们可以得到它。{PH094 21.1}
要成为福气
“如果你还有什么要告诉我们的，请告诉我们。我不希望这个地方成为我们的陷阱，因为我深感这将是一个大福气。我希望当你就这个地方作出决定时，你能给我发一封信。{PH094 21.2}
“雷德兰兹和里弗赛德必须开工，可以从你写给我们的那个地方开工。”{PH094 21.3}
“我们今天收到了你的信。我想要说，我不能要求区会在雷德兰兹投资一所疗养院。他们有足够的责任要负，不用承担其它责任。如果你在洛杉矶会尽你最大的努力，我们就会尽力。如果你什么也不做，就说出来，我们也什么都不做。如果你能聪明地工作，就像我们知道的那样，我们会尽我们所能。但是，如果你什么也不做，等待区会，你就会失去机会。如果你要倚靠区会来买下它，我就不指望你能得到它了。{PH094 21.4}
“伯登弟兄，如果你等待某人制定计划，这件事就没有希望了。在听到你进一步的消息之前，我不会再写什么了。请立即电告我们那块地产的价格和你能得到的最佳付款条件。”{PH094 22.1}
得到的第一笔资金
“当你写信给我关于购买名为‘洛马林达’的那块地产的可取性时，我没有和任何一个人商量，因为我想这会阻碍我们，我相信我们能推进这件事而不用给区会负担。我们不想就此事给区会带来困惑。请放心，我的弟兄，我从来不会推进任何事，除非我已有了明确的印象应该推行，除非我坚定地决心提供帮助。{PH094 23.1}
“我很高兴第一笔付款的资金已在望;因为我们应该拥有那个地方。{PH094 23.2}
“你若可以，就尽一切办法得到这块地产;因为我相信它就是主希望我们得到的地方。”{PH094 23.3}
“往前走”
她在另一封写于1905年5月31日的信中说：{PH094 23.4}
“我们希望不久能见到你，然而关于购买‘洛马林达，’我要说，往前走。我希望能够通过奉献一定数量的《服务真诠》的收入来帮助。除了借钱，我做不了什么了。我希望买下那个地方。别忘了告诉我应该知道的一切。我一直在看你的说明信，我很满意这是我们应该拥有的地方。四万美元很便宜。我们不会离开你，而会支持你，帮助你筹集资金。{PH094 23.5}
“至于管理这个机构的合适人选，我确信，当时机成熟时，我们会找到合适的人选。{PH094 24.1}
“我们如果得不到这块地方，那就得另找一个地方。但我相信主的意思是要我们得到这块地方。可以筹到钱去买下来。不要放过这个机会，因为向我呈现的正是这个地方。得到它对我们很有好处。{PH094 24.2}
“W.C.怀特昨天打电报来很肯定地说要购买这个地方。”{PH094 24.3}
“收到了你关于洛马林达的信，我很受鼓励。根据你对那个地方的描述，我相信它符合我在异象中看到的我们应当寻找的疗养院位置的情景。我看到这种地方距一个重要的城市数英里远。城市是最近建成的。{PH094 25.1}
“我设法将所赐给我的关于疗养院在乡间的情景摆在我们的人面前，我敦促他们必须在城外建立我们的疗养院。我已多次蒙指示看见在城外数英里获得院址的有利条件。那些听从上帝的旨意，为病人和受苦受难的人提供适当治疗的地方的人，将被引导到正确的地方去建立他们的工作。{PH094 26.1}
“要让我们的疗养院位于有丰富土地的地方。我能看到像洛马林达这样的地方的优势。主行了事，帮助我们得到了这块地产。这个机构的工作要按纯洁高尚的路线推进。它可以以这样一种方式得到管理，即真理将被呈现为可在其上建造的磐石。{PH094 26.2}
“为了使我们的机构能教授正确的功课，必须有单纯到乐于向大教师学习的人在这些机构工作。{PH094 26.3}
“我们需要因研究上帝在我们面前所展开祂创造物的课本而心智扩大的工人。有天使与宣扬自然之物所阐明之真理的人合作。这些事物并非上帝，乃上帝作为的标本。{PH094 26.4}
“我们的医疗工作者要竭尽全力医治人身体和心理的疾病。他们要警醒、祷告和作工，使他们所努力医治的人得到属灵和身体的益处。我们疗养院中的一位医师是上帝的忠仆，他为每一个与他接触的病人都有极其关切的工作要做。他不丧失任何机会，总是把人指向身心的大医师基督。每一位医师都应该按照基督的路线成为熟练的工人。在属灵的事上兴趣不可减少，否则心力就会转移，不再专注于大医师。虽然应当严格照顾身体的需要，虽然应该做出一切的努力以打破疾病的势力，但医生决不要忘记，有一个灵魂要为之操劳。{PH094 26.5}
“上帝会吸引人从逻辑的信念升到一个更深刻、更高尚、更纯净、更光荣的信念，一个不被人类逻辑所扭曲的信念。人的逻辑往往几乎熄灭真光。上帝本要让这光发出清明的光线，使人相信自然界的主宰是配受一切赞美和荣耀的，因为祂是万有的创造主。”{PH094 27.1}
“这就是指示我的地方。我们必须得到它。”{PH094 27.2}
她说：“提议设在洛马林达的学校，必须用开始传扬信息时的那种精神来创建。我们要设法请赫斯格长老这样的人参与学校的工作，使受训担任医疗布道士的学生对工作有新的看法。”她说：“与我们医疗工作开始的时候相比，我们离典范相去甚远”。{PH094 32.1}
怀姐妹在1905年6月26日写道：{PH094 32.2}
“现在是白天。我坐在睡椅上给你写信。有许多事情需要考虑。我们都需要圣灵的引导。{PH094 32.3}
“我随时都很高兴收到你的来信。我衷心希望加利福尼亚南部的弟兄们团结一致，共同推进学校工作和疗养院工作。我希望某某弟兄会就已经开办的疗养院和新疗养院采取聪明的行动。我祈求主提供合适的帮助参与这个机构的工作。{PH094 32.4}
“如果你的计划被人打断，或者你受到阻碍，不要气馁。但我希望我们再也不要遇到我们过去因在加利福尼亚州南部某些工作方面行事的方式而遇到的阻碍。我见过所遵行的阻拦原则，也见过耶和华因此而不悦。如果再表现同样的精神，我就不会同意像以往那样保持沉默。”{PH094 33.1}
土地不要出售
她还在1905年7月5日的信中说：{PH094 33.2}
“我要给你写几句话。有一件事我希望你去做。我希望你不要急于让这块土地交由区会经手管理，而是要让各方持有这块地皮。我听说某某提议卖掉一部分土地来偿还所欠的债务。请告诉我事情现在怎么样了?你能贷到款来偿付剩下的五万美元吗?若贷不到的话，我们就得动脑筋看看能不能筹到款。我已经给你写了信。请告知需要我做什么。我们必须确保及时付清每一笔款。不要让这块土地从我们手中失去。”{PH094 33.3}
“我想给你写几句话：不要为了筹钱而卖掉一英尺那块地皮。我们宁可向银行贷款也不要那样做。”{PH094 33.4}
“我想要将主已使我们力所能及的福气呈现在我们的人面前，祂使我们能够获得名为洛马林达的美丽的疗养院地产。……在我们最近的拜访之前，我从来没有亲眼见过这样的地方，但四年前，就有这样一个地方呈现在我面前，如果我们明智地行动，它就会成为我们的财产。这是一个为病人工作的好地方，也是我们为雷德兰兹和里弗赛德工作的起点。我们必须作出果断的努力争取到愿意最忠心地从事医疗布道工作的帮手。……我多么渴望看到病人和受苦的人来到这个机构啊!这是我曾见过的适合作疗养院的最完全的地方之一。我感谢我们的天父赐给我们这样一个地方。它几乎提供了疗养院工作所需的一切，而且这正是疗养院工作可以由忠实的医生和管理人员按正确路线推进的地方。……当我看到洛马林达时，我说，感谢主，这正是我一直希望找到的地方。……{PH094 38.1}
“病人大部分时间都可以在户外生活。这片土地将成为一所教育病人的学校。通过户外运动和在土壤中工作，男男女女将恢复他们的健康。治疗疾病的合理方法将以多种方式得到使用。药物会被丢弃。……{PH094 39.1}
“这是我所见过的适合从事疗养院工作的最佳地点之一。在这个地方，病人可以获得恢复健康和力量的一切自然优势。{PH094 39.2}
上帝所选择宣扬第三位天使信息的方式
“四十年前，主开始指示我们建立疗养院，作为祂所选择的方式之一来传达第三位天使的信息。……我们的疗养院应当成为学校，各阶层的人要在其中受教得救之路。病人要在其中受教，克服对茶、咖啡、肉食、烟草和各种醉人酒类的欲望。在我们每一个医疗机构中，都应该向病人和受苦的人指出救主为他们惟一的指望。……{PH094 39.3}
“过去的二十年来，主一直在赐下这个信息：应当在许多地方建立工作站。当我们努力执行祂的旨意的时候，祂必大大赐福我们。离开城市进入乡村乃是已经发出的命令，这个命令应当得到听从。我们的疗养院应当建在最有益健康的环境里。”……{PH094 39.4}
证言得到证实
“上帝宣布我们应该找到适合我们工作的建筑，而且这些建筑会以极低的价钱提供给我们。我们最近在加利福尼亚州南部的经验岂不是证明了确实如此吗?我不禁喜极而泣，因为我看到，我们在圣迭哥、洛杉矶、雷德兰兹和里弗赛德地区的疗养院工作地点的选择，清楚地揭示了上帝的旨意。{PH094 40.1}
“在城市以外的地方建立工作需要资金，可以从这些地方对城市作工。我们必须有资金支付洛马林达的费用。我请求我们有财力的弟兄们要觉悟落在他们身上责任，尽他们所能的帮助我们。那些蒙主托付钱财的人应当视此为一个特权，奉献他们的钱财帮助支付一个如此适合疗养院工作的地方的费用。”{PH094 40.2}
PH094 - Testimonies and Experiences Connected with the Loma Linda Sanitarium and College of Medical Evangelists “The God of heaven has been dishonored. You have found a place to invest means in various enterprises as though it were a virtue to leave my work in other lands to struggle with poverty and nakedness. You have not shared your abundant facilities as you might have done, even though the sacrifice required might appear large to you.?{PH094 4.1}
Nothing that earth has given is of sufficient value to recompense the travail and burden of?soul, the agony of mind that has been felt in seeing the people working at cross-purposes with God, hindering the work, and making it necessary for God to withdraw His prospering hand from the publishing association and from the conference.”?{PH094 4.2}[1]
“Then the test came upon the sanitarium. God has given it prosperity, not to be a means of self-exaltation, but that they might impart of their substance. When His servants were sent to Australia, you should have understood that God would work through them, and you should have exercised liberality in appropriating means to advance the work. The medical missionary work should ere this have been established upon a solid foundation. There should be no withholding of means. The Lord has let His chastening hand fall upon the Review and Herald office because they would not heed His voice. Self-sufficient managers hedged up the way that His work should not advance. The Lord calls upon the Battle Creek Sanitarium to extend her work and to place the health institution here upon a proper basis. This should have been done two years ago. The withholding tends to poverty.”?{PH094 6.1}[2]
“We have come to a time when every member of the church should take hold of medical missionary work.” “Christ is no longer in this world in person, to go through our cities and towns and villages, healing the sick. He has commissioned us to carry forward the medical missionary work that He began.”?{PH094 7.1}[3]
“If ever the Lord has spoken by me, He speaks when I say that the workers engaged in educational lines, in ministerial lines, and in medical missionary lines must stand as a unit.” “Medical missionary work is yet in its infancy. The meaning of genuine medical missionary work is known by but few. Why? Because the Saviour’s plan of work has not been followed.”?{PH094 7.2}[4]
“Christ, the great medical missionary, is our example. He healed the sick and preached the gospel. In His service, healing and teaching were linked closely together. Today they are not to be separated. The nurses who are trained in our institutions are to be fitted to go out as medical missionary evangelists uniting the ministry of the Word with that of physical healing.”?{PH094 7.3}[5]
“There should be companies organized and educated most thoroughly to work as nurses, as ministers, as canvassers, as gospel students.”?{PH094 7.4}[6]
“From the instruction that the Lord has given me from time to time. I know there should be workers who make medical evangelistic tours among the towns and villages. Those who do this work will gather a rich harvest of souls, both from the higher and lower classes.”?{PH094 8.1}[7]
“Let our ministers who have gained an experience in preaching the Word, learn how to give simple treatments, and then labor intelligently as medical missionary evangelists. Christ stands before us as a pattern man, the great medical missionary, an example to all who should come after.”?{PH094 8.2}[8]
“The Lord calls upon our young people to enter our schools and quickly fit themselves for service. In various places, outside of cities, schools are to be established, where our youth can receive an education that would prepare them to go forth to do evangelical work and medical missionary work.”?{PH094 8.3}[9]
【Pioneer Work In Southern California】
(Financial Help Needed)
“For years the work in Southern California has needed help, and we now call upon our brethren and sisters who have means to spare to put it into circulation, that we may secure the places so well suited for our work.?{PH094 9.1}[10]
“God has not been pleased with the way in which this field has been neglected. From many places in Southern California the light is to shine forth to the multitudes. Present truth is to be as a city set on a hill, which can not be hid.?{PH094 9.2}[11]
“In Southern California there are many properties for sale on which buildings suitable for sanitarium work are already erected. Some of these properties should be purchased, and medical missionary work carried forward on sensible,?rational lines. Several small sanitariums are to be established in Southern California for the benefit of the multitudes drawn there in the hope of finding health. Instruction has been given me that now is our opportunity to reach the individuals flocking to the health resorts of Southern California, and that a work may be done also in behalf of their attendants.?{PH094 9.3}[12]
“For months I carried on my soul the burden of the medical missionary work in Southern California. Recently much light has been given me in regard to the manner in which God desires us to conduct sanitarium work. We are to encourage patients to spend much of their time out-of-doors. I have been instructed to tell our brethren to keep on the lookout for cheap, desirable properties in healthful places, suitable for sanitarium purposes.?{PH094 10.1}[13]
“Instead of investing in one medical institution all means obtainable, we ought to establish smaller sanitariums in many places. Soon the reputation of the health resorts in Southern California will stand even higher than it stands at present. Now is our time to enter that field for the purpose of carrying forward medical missionary work.”?{PH094 10.2}[14]
【Out of the Cities】
(“St. Helena, Cal.,October 13, 1902.)
“During my stay in Southern California, I was enabled to visit places that in the past have been presented to me by the Lord as suitable for the establishment of sanitariums and schools. For years I have been given special light that we are not to establish large centers for our work in the cities. The turmoil and confusion that fills these?cities, the conditions brought about by the labor unions and the strikes, would prove a great hindrance to our work.?{PH094 10.3}[15]
“Men are seeking to bring those engaged in the different trades under certain unions. This is not God’s plan, but the planning of a power that we should in no case acknowledge. God’s word is fulfilling: the wicked are binding themselves in bundles ready to be burned.?{PH094 11.1}[16]
“I have been instructed that the work in Southern California should have advantages that it has not yet enjoyed. I have been shown that in Southern California there are properties for sale on which buildings are already erected that could be utilized for our work, and that such properties will be offered to us at much less than their original cost. In these places, away from the din and confusion of the congested cities, we can establish sanitariums in which the sick can be cared for in the way God designs them to be. In our efforts to help the sick, we are to take them away from the cities, where they are continually annoyed by the noise of trains and street cars, and where there is little besides houses to see, to places where they can be surrounded by the scenes of nature, and where they can have the blessing of fresh air and sunshine.?{PH094 11.2}[17]
“This subject was laid out before me in Australia. Light was given me that the cities would be filled with confusion, violence and crime, and that these things would increase till the close of this earth’s history. There is much to be said on this point. Instruction is to be given line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. And our physicians and teachers should be quick to see the advantage of retired locations for our sanitariums and schools.?{PH094 11.3}[18]
“Properties such as those to which I have referred are being offered to us, and some of them we should purchase when it is plain that they are what we need, and when provision can be made for their acquisition without a burdensome debt. Where there are orchards on these places, so much the better: but on other properties where the buildings are just what we need, trees can be set out.?{PH094 12.1}[19]
“The fact that in many cases the owners of these properties are anxious to dispose of them, and are therefore willing to sell them at a low price, is greatly in our favor. We must study economy in the outlay of means. At this stage of our work, we are not to erect large buildings in any of the cities. And we are not to follow extravagant and unduly large plans in our work in any place. We are to remember the cities which have been neglected and which must now be worked. The people in these cities must have the light of truth, In our establishment of sanitariums, we are not to spend large sums of money in the erection of costly buildings; for there are many places to be worked. We are to be wise in securing advantages already provided that the Lord desires us to have. We are to be wise as serpents and as harmless as doves in our efforts to secure country properties at a low figure, and from these outpost centers we are to work the cities.?{PH094 12.2}[20]
“The work in Southern California is to advance more rapidly than it has advanced in the past. The means lying in banks or hidden in the earth is now called for to strengthen the work in Southern California. Every year many thousands of tourists visit Southern California, and by various?methods we should seek to reach them with the truth.”?{PH094 12.3}[21]
【Another Place Described】
(“Sanitarium, Cal.,August 8, 1904.)
“Again and again during the past five years symbolic representations have been presented to me in visions of the night, showing what we ought to be doing in sanitarium work to help the sick to recover soundness of body and mind. On the night of October 10, 1901, I was unable to sleep after half past eleven at night. Many things regarding the sanitarium work were presented to me in figures and symbols. I was shown sanitariums near Los Angeles in running order. At one place I saw sanitarium work being carried on in a beautiful building. On the grounds surrounding the building there were many fruit trees. This institution, which was away from the city, was filled with life and activity.?{PH094 14.1}[22]
“On the grounds of this beautiful place that I saw in the visions of the night, there were many shade trees, the boughs of which hung down in such a way as to form leafy canopies somewhat in the shape of tents. Underneath these canopies patients were resting. The sick were delighted with their surroundings. While some worked, others were singing. There was no sign of dissatisfaction.?{PH094 14.2}[23]
“I awoke and for some time could not sleep. Many vivid scenes had passed before me, and I?could not forget the words I had spoken to the patients and helpers. Brethren and sisters, Christ has instructed me to say to you, the Holy Spirit will make your hearts tender and soft by His grace. The Lord will guide you and teach you His way.”?{PH094 14.3}[24]
【Near Redlands and Riverside】
“I hope Brother -----, that when you see a suitable place in Redlands, which could be used as a sanitarium, offered for sale at a suitable price, you will let us know about it. We shall need a sanitarium in Redlands. Unless we start an enterprise of this kind, others will. I understand that the property owners are afraid that consumptives will come in, and thus the reputation of the place be spoiled. But, of course, we should make it clear that we are not going to establish a consumptive’s home.?{PH094 15.1}[25]
“I merely mention this so that you and Brother Burden may keep it in view. We shall not take any steps to establish a sanitarium in Redlands until we can be assured that we are doing the right thing. Brother Burden and you can visit?the place from time to time, and see what openings there are. And in all that you do be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.”?{PH094 15.2}[26]
“You can not think how thankful I am that there are two sanitariums in running order in Southern California. I hope that great good will be accomplished by these institutions. I was glad to read what you wrote about some belonging to the higher classes being at the San Diego Sanitarium. This is a class that we need to reach. Time is short, and the Lord would have the truth proclaimed in the highways and the byways. Angels of God will go before those who lift up the standard and wisely proclaim the truth.?{PH094 16.1}[27]
“In closing, I would ask you not to forget that sometime a sanitarium will be needed in Redlands. When you have opportunity, examine the field cautiously, and tell us what you find there. We must not allow others to get in ahead of us, and shut us off. Now is the time to make discreet inquiries.”?{PH094 16.2}[28]
“I hear that plans are being laid for Elder Simpson to leave Southern California. I had hoped to see him extend his work from Los Angeles to Redlands and Riverside. Redlands and Riverside have been presented to me as places that should be worked. These two places should not be longer neglected. Please consider the?advisability of establishing a sanitarium in the vicinity of these cities with treatment rooms in each place to act as feeders to the sanitarium.”?{PH094 16.3}[29]
“Our people in Southern California need to awake to the magnitude of the work to be done within their own borders. Let them awake to prayer and labor. Let them manifest more spiritual vitality. They need a new conversion that they may labor untiringly for souls. Wherever there is spiritual life there will be an imparting as well as a receiving of light and blessing. The nourishment from God’s Word will be received, and earnest work will be done. The act of imparting keeps open the channel for receiving. This truth our Saviour ever sought to keep before the people.?{PH094 17.1}[30]
【The Mission of Our Sanitariums】
“I have a message to bear to the church members in Southern California. Arouse, and avail yourselves of the opportunities open to you. While Christ pleads in your behalf, plead for yourselves that you may be purified from every unrighteous thought, every unholy action. Make an entire surrender to God, of body, soul, and spirit. Be determined to do all in your power to learn the true science of soul-saving. While the light of God’s day of mercy still shines, gather up every divine ray.?{PH094 17.2}[31]
“If rightly conducted, our sanitariums may exert a refining, ennobling influence, and lead many souls to Christ. The religious principles maintained in these institutions will demonstrate that there is relief for the soul, weary and sick with sin. Many are weak and sick because of disease of the soul. Let Christ be held up before?them as the great Healer, Who invites them to come to Him and find rest. Tell them that the heart of Christ is drawn out in compassion and love for His blood-bought heritage. He will heal the troubled heart that looks to Him in faith.”?{PH094 17.3}[32]
“To the poor sin-sick soul repeat the Saviour’s invitation, ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.’ There is true joy in learning of Christ.?{PH094 18.1}[33]
“Tell the suffering ones of a compassionate Saviour. He is the only Physician who can heal both body and soul. He has given His life for the world, that men should not perish, but have everlasting life. He looks with compassion upon those who regard their case as hopeless.?{PH094 18.2}[34]
“While the soul is filled with fear and terror, the mind can not see the tender compassion of Christ. Our sanitariums are to be an agency for bringing peace and rest to the troubled mind. If you can inspire the despondent with hopeful, saving faith, contentment and cheerfulness will take the place of discouragement and unrest. Wonderful changes will then be wrought in their physical condition. Christ will restore both body and soul; and, realizing His compassion and love, they will rest in Him. He is the bright and morning star, shining amid the moral darkness of this sinful, corrupt world. He is the light of the world, and all who give their hearts to Him will find peace and rest and joy.”?{PH094 18.3}[35]
“Your letter has just been read. I had no sooner finished reading it than I said, I will counsel with no one; for I have no question at all about the matter.... Secure the property by all means, so that it can be held, and then obtain all the money you can and make sufficient payments to hold the place. Do not delay, for it is just what is needed.?{PH094 20.1}[36]
“I think that sufficient help can be secured to carry the matter through. I want you to be sure to lose no time in securing the right to purchase the property. We will do our utmost to help you raise the money. I know that Redlands and Riverside are to be worked; and I pray that the Lord may be gracious, and not allow any one else to get this property instead of us.?{PH094 20.2}[37]
“Here is the word of the Lord. Open up every place possible. We are to labor in faith, taking hold of a power that is pledged to do large things for us. We are to reach out in faith in Los Angeles and in Redlands and Riverside.?{PH094 20.3}[38]
“If we do not succeed in getting this place, we shall have to search for another; for a sanitarium should be started at once, but I believe the Lord means that we shall have this place and that money can be obtained to purchase it. Let not this opportunity slip; for just such a place has been presented before me that it would be greatly to our advantage to obtain. May the Lord impress His people with the work long neglected in Southern California. I sent a telegram yesterday afternoon with a decided affirmation to purchase the place.”?{PH094 20.4}[39]
“I have been waiting to hear from you again regarding the place near Redlands about which you wrote me not long ago. I hope that this place can be secured, because I think that the Lord has made it possible for us to obtain it.?{PH094 21.1}[40]
【To Be a Blessing】
“If you have anything further to tell us, please do so. We do not want this place to be a snare to us; for I feel impressed that it will be a great blessing. I hope that you will send me a line when you have come to a decision regarding the place.?{PH094 21.2}[41]
“Redlands and Riverside must be worked, and they could be worked from the place about which you have written us.”?{PH094 21.3}[42]
“We received your letter today. I wish to say that I can not ask the Conference to invest in a sanitarium at Redlands. They have enough responsibilities to carry without taking upon them other responsibilities. If you in Los Angeles will do your best, we will do our best. But if you will do nothing, say so, and we will do nothing. If?you will work intelligently, as we know you can, then we will do what we can. But if you do nothing, waiting for the Conference, you will lose your chance. If you are going to depend on the Conference purchasing it, I have no hope of your obtaining it.?{PH094 21.4}[43]
“Brother Burden, if you wait for ----- to work out the plans, there will be no hope at all in the matter. I will not write more till I hear something further from you. Telegraph us at once the price of the property, and the best terms of payment you can obtain.”?{PH094 22.1}[44]
【The First Money Obtained】
“When you wrote to me about the advisability of purchasing the property known as ‘Loma Linda,’ I did not consult with any one, because I thought this would hinder us, and I believed that we could carry the matter forward without putting the burden on the Conference. We do not desire to bring perplexity upon the Conference regarding this matter. Be assured, my brother, that I never advise anything unless I have a decided impression that it should be carried out, and unless I am firmly resolved to assist.?{PH094 23.1}[45]
“I am glad that means are in sight to make the first payment on the place; for we ought to have it.?{PH094 23.2}[46]
“By all means secure the property if you can; for I believe it to be the very place the Lord desires us to have.”?{PH094 23.3}[47]
【“Go Ahead”】
Another letter dated May 31, 1905, reads as follows:?{PH094 23.4}[48]
“We hope to see you soon now, but in regard to the purchase of ‘Loma Linda,” I will say, go ahead. I hope to be able to help by giving the proceeds from a certain number of copies of ‘Ministry of Healing.’ I can do no more except to borrow. I wish the place purchased. Do not neglect to tell me all I ought to know. I have been looking over your descriptive letter, and I am well satisfied that the place is one that we ought to have. It is cheap at forty thousand dollars.?We will not leave you, but will stand back of you and help you to raise the means.?{PH094 23.5}[49]
“In regard to the right man to manage the institution. I am confident that we shall find some one when the right time comes.?{PH094 24.1}[50]
“If we do not succeed in getting this place, then we shall have to search for another; but I believe the Lord means that we shall have this place and that money can be obtained to purchase it. Let not this opportunity slip, for just such a place has been presented before me, that would be greatly to our advantage to obtain.?{PH094 24.2}[51]
“W. C. White sent the telegram yesterday with a decided affirmation to purchase the place.”?{PH094 24.3}[52]
“I am much encouraged by the letters that I have received from you regarding Loma Linda.[53] From your descriptions of this place, I believe it meets the representation which I have seen of what we should seek for as sanitarium locations. Such a place was presented to me a few miles from an important city. The city had recently been built up.?{PH094 25.1}[54]
“I have tried to place before our people the representations given me regarding sanitariums in the country, and I have urged upon them the necessity of establishing our sanitariums outside of the cities. I have had repeatedly presented to me the advantage of securing locations some miles out of the cities. Those who follow the counsel of God in providing places where the sick and suffering can receive proper treatment, will be guided to the right places for the establishment of their work.?{PH094 26.1}[55]
“Let our sanitariums be located where there is an abundance of land. I can see the advantage of such a place as Loma Linda. The Lord worked to help us to secure this property. The work of this institution is to be carried forward on pure, elevated lines. It can be conducted in such a way that truth will be presented as the rock upon which to build.?{PH094 26.2}[56]
“In order that our institutions shall teach right lessons, there must be connected with them men of such simplicity that they are willing to learn of the great Teacher.?{PH094 26.3}[57]
“We need workers who will gain breadth of mind by studying the book God has opened before us of His created works. Angels cooperate with those who proclaim the truths represented by the things of nature. These things are not God, but they are specimens of God’s handiwork.?{PH094 26.4}[58]
“Our medical workers are to do all in their?power to cure disease of the body and also disease of the mind. They are to watch and pray and work, bringing spiritual as well as physical advantages to those for whom they labor. The physician in one of our sanitariums who is a true servant of God has an intensely interesting work to do for every suffering human being with whom he is brought in contact. He is to lose no opportunity to point souls to Christ, the great Healer of body and mind. Every physician should be a skillful worker in Christ’s lines. There is to be no lessening of the interest in spiritual things, else the power to fix the mind upon the great Physician will be diverted. While the needs of the body are to be strictly attended to, while all possible efforts are to be made to break the power of disease, the physician is never to forget that there is a soul to be labored for.?{PH094 26.5}[59]
“God would draw minds from the conviction of logic to a conviction deeper, higher, purer, and more glorious, a conviction unperverted by human logic. Human logic has often nearly quenched the light which God would have shine forth in clear rays to convince minds that the God of nature is worthy of all praise and all glory, because He is the Creator of all things.”?{PH094 27.1}[60]
“This is the very place that has been shown me and we must have it.”?{PH094 27.2}[61]
“This proposed school at Loma Linda,” said she, “must be molded by the early spirit of the message. We must try to get such men as Eld. S. N. Haskell to connect with it, in order that our students in training for service as medical missionary evangelists may get a new view of the work.” “We are now,” said she, “farther from the pattern than when our medical work first started.”?{PH094 32.1}[62]
On June 26, 1905, Sister White wrote as follows:?{PH094 32.2}[63]
“It is just daylight, and I am seated on my couch beginning a letter to you. There are many matters to be considered; and we all need the guidance of the Holy Spirit.?{PH094 32.3}[64]
“I shall be pleased to hear from you at any time. I sincerely hope the brethren in Southern California will unite in pressing forward the school work and the sanitarium work. I hope that ----- will move understandingly in reference to the sanitariums already in operation, and also in regard to the new sanitarium. I pray that the Lord may provide suitable help to connect with this institution.?{PH094 32.4}[65]
“Do not be discouraged if in any wise there is some cutting across your plans, and if you are somewhat hindered. I hope that we shall never again have to meet the hindrances that we have had to meet in the past because of the way in which some things have been conducted in some lines in Southern California. I have seen the ‘hold-back’ principles followed, and I have seen the displeasure of the Lord because of this. If the same spirit is manifested. I shall not consent to keep silence as I have done.”?{PH094 33.1}[66]
【Land Not to be Sold】
And again in a letter of July 5, 1905:?{PH094 33.2}[67]
“I write you a few lines. One thing I wish you to do. I wish you to not be very anxious to get this property in the hands or power of the Conference to manage, but let parties manage the holding of this property. I learn that ----- has proposed to sell some of the land to help pay the standing debt. Tell me how the matter is now. Can you obtain the loan of money for to raise the rest of the five thousand dollars? If not, we must stir about to see if we can not obtain the means. I have sent you the letter that I have written; please tell me what is necessary for me to do. We must be sure and have every payment made in time, and not let it go out of our hands.”?{PH094 33.3}[68]
“I just thought to write you a few lines to assure you that not one foot of that land is to be sold to raise money. We will hire money at the bank rather than this shall be done.”?{PH094 33.4}[69]
“I wish to present before our people the blessing that the Lord has placed within our reach by enabling us to obtain possession of the beautiful sanitarium property known as Loma Linda.... Until our recent visit, I had never before seen such a place as this with my natural eyes, but four years ago just such a place was presented before me as one of those that would come into our possession if we moved wisely. It is a wonderful place in which to work for the sick, and in which to begin our work for Redlands and Riverside. We must make decided efforts to secure helpers who will do most faithful medical missionary work.... Oh, how I long to see the sick and suffering coming to this institution! It is one of the most perfect places for a sanitarium that I have ever seen, and I thank our Heavenly Father for giving us such a place. It is provided with almost everything necessary for sanitarium work, and is the very place in which sanitarium work can be carried forward on right lines by faithful physicians and managers.... When I saw Loma Linda, I said, ‘Thank the Lord. This is the very place we have been hoping to find.” ...?{PH094 38.1}[70]
“The patients could live out of doors a large part of the time. The land will serve as a school for the education of patients. By outdoor exercise and working in the soil, men and women will regain their health. Rational methods for the cure of diseases will be used in a variety of ways. Drugs will be discarded....?{PH094 39.1}[71]
“It is one of the best locations for sanitarium work that I have ever seen. At this place the sick can be given every natural advantage for retaining health and strength.?{PH094 39.2}[72]
【The Chosen Way for Proclaiming the Third Angel’s Message】
“Forty years ago the Lord began to give us instruction in regard to the establishment of sanitariums as one of His chosen ways for proclaiming the third angel’s message.... Our sanitariums are to be schools in which people of all classes shall be taught the way of salvation. In them the sick are to be taught to overcome the appetite for tea, coffee, flesh-meat, tobacco and intoxicating liquor of all kinds. In every one of our medical institutions the sick and suffering are to be pointed to the Saviour as their only hope....?{PH094 39.3}[73]
“For the past twenty years the Lord has been giving the message that plants are to be made in many places. He will greatly bless us as we endeavor to carry out His will. Out of the city into the country, is the word that has been given, and this word is to be obeyed. Our sanitariums are to be established in the most healthful surroundings.” ...?{PH094 39.4}[74]
【The Testimonies Prove True】
“God declared that we should find buildings suitable for our work, and that these buildings would be offered to us at a very low price. Has not our recent experience in Southern California proved this true? I could not but weep for joy as I saw how plainly the Providence of God had been revealed in our selection of places for sanitarium work in San Diego, Los Angeles and the Redlands and Riverside district.?{PH094 40.1}[75]
“Money is needed with which to establish the work in places outside of the cities, from which the cities can be worked. We must have means with which to meet the payments on Loma Linda. I ask our brethren who have means to awake to the responsibilities resting upon them, and to do what they can to help us. Those who have the Lord’s money in trust should regard it as a privilege to give of their means to help to pay for a place so well adapted to sanitarium work.”?{PH094 40.2}[76]
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