1907年12月1日写于加利福尼亚州纳欣诺市天堂谷疗养院
致J.E.怀特长老夫妇
亲爱的孩子们：
我感谢主在这次旅程中扶持了我。我完成了许多重要的写作。一周前的安息日，和上个安息日，我在圣迭哥的教会讲了道。{PC 257.2}
我在盼望和祈祷我能明白我的职责。在我看来，我必须留在这个国家的这个地区，直到赫斯格长老到来，接下来的几个星期我可能无法离开。在里弗赛德附近已经开始了一项重要的工作。几周前，洛马林达三年级的学生们来到里弗赛德，第一次做了推销《服务真诠》的实际工作。班里有八个人，他们探访人家的目的，与其说是为了赚钱而卖书，不如说是为了熟悉和谈论洛马林达的工作。然而，他们在交谈的过程中，通常会介绍《服务真诠》，讲述这本书的故事，然后提议将其作为包含洛马林达学校教学原则的书卷出售。这样，在一周多一点的时间里，这本书大约有七十本就被放进了人们的家中;学生们为洛马林达的工作结交了很多朋友。他们无论走到哪里，都想留下好印象。我们相信他们做得很好。他们完全清醒，在主里充满了勇气，并且似乎取得了成功。{PC 257.3}
二年级即将进行类似的工作，同时三年级的学生继续在洛马林达学习。以后，希望一年级的一些同学可以出去。这样，学校的每一个学生都会协助在里弗赛德的工作。我想你见过那个地方。那是个大城市，洛马林达学校的管理者们正设法藉着先介绍《服务真诠》来在那里得立足之地。之后，他们会派学生出去推销《基督比喻实训》。他们会认真努力，明智地推销这些书。{PC 258.1}
里弗赛德以外的其它地方也要进行类似的工作。我们都在祈祷，愿主多多赐福这些从学校里出来的第一批工人。这对我们的洛马林达培训学校和疗养院来说意义重大，不仅因为他们希望给人们留下好的印象，而且因为经济上的原因。来了许多新学生，需要相当多的钱来照顾他们，同时保持学校和疗养院的其它运营费用。在洛马林达，现在有一百多人在为医疗布道工作接受培训。{PC 258.2}
我多么渴望在洛马林达有一台小印刷机，好将讲道印出来，发给周围的城市!我已跟亨利·W·凯洛格弟兄提过这事;因为他对这方面的工作特别感兴趣。我们需要一台小型印刷机，好印刷通知，并以印刷的形式出版将不时发表的演讲，用于周围的城市。现在是我们作工的时候。我们希望在一些服务方面与基督教妇女节制协会联合。{PC 258.3}
我不能安心地返回圣赫勒那，直到我看到工作完全正常运行。主已赐下亮光，在圣贝纳迪诺山谷的这些城市应该开工。时候已到，要从事这项工作，我们应该有明智的管理队伍聪明地推进工作。{PC 258.4}
我们从来没有像现在这样需要更多地鼓励信心;因为这都是左右为难的。{PC 258.5}
Paradise Valley Sanitarium National City, California December 1, 1907
Elder and Mrs. J. E. White
Dear Children,
I thank the Lord that He has sustained me on this journey. I have done much important writing. On Sabbath a week ago, and again last Sabbath, I spoke in the church at San Diego.?{PC 257.2}
I am hoping and praying that I may understand my duty. It seems to me that I must remain in this section of the country until after Elder Haskell arrives, and then I may not be able to leave for some weeks to come. An important work has been begun in the vicinity of Riverside. The third year class of students at Loma Linda went over to Riverside a few weeks ago, and did their first practical work in canvassing for “Ministry of Healing.” There were eight in the class, and their object in visiting the homes of the people was more to become acquainted and to?talk of the work at Loma Linda, than it was to sell books for profit. However, in the course of their conversation, they would usually introduce “Ministry of Healing,” tell the story of the book, and then offer to sell it as a volume that contained the principles taught in the school at Loma Linda. In this way, about seventy copies of the book were placed in the homes of the people, in a little over one week; and the students made many, many friends for the work at Loma Linda. Wherever they went, they sought to leave a good impression. We believe they did a good work. They were wide awake, and full of courage in the Lord, and seem to have met with success.?{PC 257.3}
The second year class will undertake a similar work soon, while the third year class continue their studies at Loma Linda. Later on, it is hoped that some members of the first year class can go out. Thus each of the several students in the school will assist in working Riverside. I suppose you have seen that place. It is a grand city, and the managers of the Loma Linda school are seeking to gain a foothold there by introducing, first, the “Ministry of Healing.” Afterward, they will send out students with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” They will earnestly endeavor to handle these books wisely.?{PC 258.1}
A similar work is to be carried on in other places besides Riverside. We are all praying that the Lord may abundantly bless these first working forces going out from the school. It means much to our Loma Linda training school and sanitarium, not only with regard to the good impression that they hope to make on the minds of the people, but in a financial way as well. Many new students have come in, and considerable money will be needed to care for them all, and at the same time keep up the other running expenses of the school and sanitarium. At Loma Linda there are now over a hundred under training for medical missionary work.?{PC 258.2}
Oh, how anxious I am to have a small press in operation at Loma Linda, so as to print the discourses that shall be given in the surrounding cities! I have mentioned the matter to Brother Henry W. Kellogg; for he has a special interest in this line of work. We need a small press for printing notices, and for bringing out in printed form, for use in surrounding cities, discourses that will be given from time to time. Now is our time to work. We expect to connect with the W. C. T. U. in some lines of service.?{PC 258.3}
I cannot feel free to return to St. Helena until I see the work fully in running order. The Lord has given light that these cities in the San Bernardino Valley should be worked. The time has come to do this work, and we are to have wise managing forces to carry the work forward intelligently.?{PC 258.4}
There never was a time when we needed more to encourage faith, than at the present time; for these are perplexities on the right hand and on the left.?{PC 258.5}
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