一封公开信
亲爱的弟兄姐妹们：
主已大大赐福了我们在加利福尼亚州南部的百姓，使他们能以极低的成本获得宝贵的疗养院财产。通过在建在这里的机构，主希望接触一班无法以别的方式接触的人。因此我要敦促我们已蒙主托付资财的人，要借款或捐款给这些机构，使他们能毫不拮据地从事会将尊贵和荣耀归于上帝的工作。{PC 228.3}
我们的弟兄们花了四万美元买下了洛马林达的建筑和土地，最初的成本是十五万美元。这些建筑都是家具齐全的，比我们能给它们配备的优雅的多。{PC 228.4}
主奇妙地行了事，使我们得到了这个地方。这里是一个中心，亮光要由此照进周围的各城——雷德兰兹、里弗赛德、圣贝纳迪诺、科尔顿和附近其它的城市。{PC 229.1}
已经发现有必要在洛马林达提供更多的浴室设施，并对建筑物进行一些改造以适应疗养院的工作。非常需要一部电梯，还需要增加一个小面包房。我们需要资金来完成必须做的事情，我们祈求上帝使我们的弟兄姐妹们有心在这必要的时刻提供帮助。{PC 229.2}
多年来，主已指示我们在圣迭哥附近应该有一所疗养院，每年都有成千上万的游客来这里。在纳欣诺市以原价的一小部分买到了一块很有价值的地产。有一项重要的工作要做成，要照顾病人，用真理之光接触许多人。在天堂谷疗养院，我们也发现有必要在原来的建筑之外加添建筑，且有必须尽快偿还的债务。主已赐福这个机构，一些人已经因所做的工作归顺了真理。{PC 229.3}
在距洛杉矶数英里远的格兰代尔，我们以实际价值的四分之一买下了一个疗养院。这个机构目前满了病人。它装备精良，具有影响力。它的需要并不像在洛马林达和纳欣诺市的疗养院那么迫切。{PC 229.4}
这三个机构的建立给我们在加利福尼亚州南部的人带来了沉重的财务负担。但他们却对资金的呼吁作出了积极的响应。伯登弟兄、怀特医生和其他在这些疗养院工作的人已经投入了他们能省下了一切，以免工作受到阻碍。{PC 229.5}
我们的疗养院一点也不多。需要已经建立的每一个疗养院。在这些机构中，我们正在努力认真扎实地开展工作，与主对疗养院工作的指示协调一致。这些机构要在这些旅游胜地的中心作为传授真理的手段。{PC 229.6}
应我们的要求，伯登弟兄将到东部参加我们的一些帐篷大会，会上他可以与我们许多的弟兄姐妹接触，将帮助主圣工的这些重要部门的机会摆在他们面前。我们联合起来请那些有资财的人考虑投资一部分金钱在这些机构，从而帮助提供必要的设施，以便做成彻底的工作，照顾来加利福尼亚州南部寻求健康的病人。{PC 229.7}
愿主赐予帮助的能力，和乐意心。{PC 230.1}
May 19, 1907 Loma Linda, California
An Open Letter
Dear Brethren and Sisters,
The Lord has greatly blessed our people in Southern California, in enabling them to secure at very low cost valuable sanitarium properties. Through the institutions that are established here, the Lord desires to reach a class that can be reached in no other way. Therefore I would urge upon our people to whom the Lord has entrusted the talent of means, that they make loans and gifts to place these institutions in a position where they can do without embarrassment the work that will be to the honor and glory of God.?{PC 228.3}
For forty thousand dollars our brethren secured at Loma Linda buildings and land that cost originally one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. These buildings were furnished completely, far more elegantly than we would have furnished them.?{PC 228.4}
The Lord has worked wonderfully in bringing us into possession of this place. Here is a center from which light is to shine into the surrounding cities of Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino, Colton, and other places near by.?{PC 229.1}
It has been found necessary to provide additional bathroom facilities at Loma Linda, and to make some changes to adapt the building to sanitarium work. An elevator is greatly needed, and a small bakery should be added. We are in need of means to accomplish that which must be done, and we pray the Lord to put it into the heart of our brethren and sisters to help in this time of necessity.?{PC 229.2}
For years the Lord has instructed us that we should have a sanitarium in the vicinity of San Diego, where many thousands of tourists come every year. A valuable property was secured at National City at a very small part of its original cost. There is an important work to be done in caring for the sick, and in reaching many with the light of truth. At the Paradise Valley Sanitarium also it was found necessary to add to the original building, and obligation have been made that must soon be met. The Lord has blessed this institution, and some have been converted to the truth as the result of the work already done.?{PC 229.3}
At Glendale, a few miles from Los Angeles, we purchased a sanitarium at about one fourth its real value. This institution is at the present time full of patients. It is well-equipped for work, and is in a position of influence. Its need is not so pressing as that of the sanitariums at Loma Linda and National City.?{PC 229.4}
The establishment of these three institutions has brought a heavy financial burden to our people in Southern California. Yet they have cheerfully responded to the calls for means that have been made. Brother Burden, Dr. White, and others connected with these sanitariums have invested all they could spare, that the work might not be hindered.?{PC 229.5}
We have none too many sanitariums. There is need for every one that has been established. In these institutions we are endeavoring to carry the work earnestly and solidly. in harmony with the instruction the Lord has given in regard to sanitarium work. They are to stand as a means of teaching the truth in these great centers of tourist resort.?{PC 229.6}
At our request, Brother Burden is going East to attend some of our camp meetings, where he may come in contact with many of our brethren and sisters, and lay before them the opportunities for assisting these important branches of the Lord’s work. We unite in asking those who have means to spare, to consider the matter of investing some of their money in these institutions, thus helping to provide necessary facilities, that a thorough work may be done in caring for the sick who are coming to Southern California in search of health.?{PC 229.7}
May the Lord give ability to help, and a willing mind. -?{PC 230.1}
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