致加利福尼亚州塞巴斯托波尔的杰西·克里斯蒂安森夫人
我亲爱的姐妹：
我正在竭尽所能地推进新地区的工作。主已表明，在不同的地区，有些建筑物会以极低的价格提供给我们，我们可以用来从事我们的工作。关于这一点，祂对我们说的话已经在我们于加利福尼亚州南部开辟医疗布道工作的经验中得到了证实。最近，主将一个大福气放在我们力所能及的范围之内，使我们能获得一块名为洛马林达的美丽的疗养院地产。这块地产距离洛杉矶六十英里，是一个极好的地方，可以在那里为病人工作，也可以在那里开始为雷德兰兹和里弗赛德工作。{PC 210.1}
它的名字——洛马林达，美丽的小山——描绘了那个地方。构成那块地产的六十六英亩土地中，约有三十五英亩形成了一座美丽的小山，在山谷以上约一百二十五英尺。疗养院的建筑就坐落在这个小山上。{PC 210.2}
主楼是一座规划良好的结构，有六十四间房间，三层楼和一个地下室。它是配置完全的，用蒸汽供热，用电照明。它周围是大胡椒树和其它遮荫树。{PC 210.3}
大约十竿远，在山的最高处，一组五栋别墅。中央别墅有九间漂亮的客厅和两间浴室。地下室有给那五栋别墅供暖的车间。{PC 210.4}
四栋小别墅恰如其分地围绕着这栋大别墅，每栋有四个房间，有浴室和卫生间。总共有九十间房间。所有的建筑都家具齐全，随时可以使用。{PC 210.5}
小山和山谷的76英亩土地耕种得很好，将为该机构提供大量的水果和蔬菜。15英亩的山谷土地种着苜蓿干草。这座小山上有8英亩种着杏子、李子和柠檬。有10英亩是结果累累的果园。别墅和主楼周围许多英亩的土地都铺设了草坪、车道和人行道。{PC 210.6}
卖给我们这块地产的那家公司花了大约十四万美元建造它。他们建造了这些建筑物，并作为疗养院经营了一段时间。后来他们想把它当作旅游旅馆经营，但这个计划没有成功，于是他们决定出售。它在去年四月关闭了，当股东们更加急于出售时，便以四万美元的价格卖给我们，而我们的人就以这个价格买下了它。{PC 210.7}
我们得到这块地产的方式使我们知道耶和华的手在这件事上。洛马林达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。{PC 210.8}
不远处是雷德兰兹、里弗赛德和圣贝纳迪诺等城市。应该在这些地方进行彻底地工作。已经在雷德兰兹和里弗赛德做了一些工作，在这两个地方各建了一栋整洁的礼拜堂。然而必须尽快作出彻底的布道努力。{PC 211.1}
怀爱伦
December 19, 1905 Sanitarium, California
Mrs. Jessie Christiansen Sebastapol, California
My dear Sister,
I am trying to do all I possibly can to urge the work forward in new places. The Lord has signified that in different places there are buildings which would be offered to us at a very low price, which we could use in our work. His word to us regarding this has been verified in our experience in opening up medical missionary work in Southern California. Recently the Lord has placed a great blessing within our reach by enabling us to obtain a beautiful sanitarium property known as Loma Linda. This property is sixty miles from Los Angeles, and it is a wonderful place in which to work for the sick, and in which to begin work for Redlands and Riverside.?{PC 210.1}
Its name - Loma Linda, “beautiful hill,” - describes the place. Of the sixty-six acres comprised in the property, about thirty-five form a beautiful hill, which rises one hundred and twenty-five feet above the valley. Upon this hill the sanitarium building is situated.?{PC 210.2}
The main building is a well-planned structure of sixty- four rooms, having three stories and a basement. It is completely furnished, heated by steam, and lighted by electricity. It is surrounded by large pepper trees and other shade trees.?{PC 210.3}
About ten rods away and on the highest part of the hill there is a group of five cottages. The central cottage has nine beautiful living-rooms and two bath-rooms. In the basement is the heating plant for the five cottages.?{PC 210.4}
Prettily grouped around this larger cottage are four smaller ones, having four rooms each, with bath and toilet. In all there are ninety rooms. The buildings are furnished throughout, and are ready for use.?{PC 210.5}
The seventy-six acres of hill and valley land are well cultivated and will furnish much fruit and many vegetables for the institution. Fifteen acres of the valley land are in alfalfa hay. Eight acres of the hill are in apricots, plums, and almonds. Ten acres are in good bearing orange orchard. Many acres of land round the cottages and main building are laid out in lawns, drives, and walks.?{PC 210.6}
This property cost the company from whom we purchased it, about one hundred and forty thousand dollars. They erected the buildings, and ran the place for a while as a sanitarium. They tried to operate it as a tourist hotel. But this plan did not succeed, and they decided to sell. It was closed last April, and as the stockholders became more anxious to sell, it was offered to us for forty thousand dollars, and for this amount our people purchased it.?{PC 210.7}
This property came into our possession in such a way that we knew the hand of the Lord was in the matter. Loma Linda 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 it is the very place in which sanitarium?work can be carried forward on right lines by faithful physicians and managers.?{PC 210.8}
Not far away are the cities of Redlands and Riverside and San Bernardino. These places are to be thoroughly worked. Something has already been done in Redlands and Riverside, and a neat house of worship has been erected in each place. But as soon as possible a thorough evangelistic effort must be made.?{PC 211.1}
Ellen G. White -
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