Life sketches of ellen g. white

"As we study the vastness of the work, and the urgency of
entering these fields without delay, we see that hundreds
of workers are needed where there are now but two or three,
and that we must lose no time in building up those
institutions where workers are to be educated and trained."
p. 370, Para. 4, [LS15].
And as the Australasian Union Conference Committee studied
anew, in the light of the opening providences of God, their
duty to occupy new territory, they "recognized the school,
the sanitarium, and the food factory as three agencies
working in harmony for the education and training of home
and foreign missionaries, who should go forth prepared to
minister to the physical, mental, and moral needs of their
fellowmen." In her report to the readers of the Review of
this advance step on the part of her brethren in Australia,
Mrs. White wrote: "We all feel that the work is urgent.
There is no part that can wait. All must advance without
delay." p. 371, Para. 1, [LS15].
At times through the years of toil spent in raising up a
strong constituency in Australasia, and in establishing
centers where the youth might be trained as workers for
God, Mrs. White and her associates caught glimpses of what
the future had in store for that portion of the broad
harvest field. The pioneers in that field,--Elders Haskell,
Corliss, Israel, Daniells, and others,--had early
recognized the possibility of raising up workers there who
should be able to enter the surrounding islands of
Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. But late in the
nineties, when the various branches of the cause of present
truth,-- publishing, educational, and medical,--were
becoming well established, and many youth were being raised
up as workers, the brethren in charge of the Australasian
Union Conference saw more and still more clearly the
opportunities for service with which they were surrounded.
p. 371, Para. 2, [LS15].
These possibilities of the future were outlined at length
by Mrs. White in communications addressed to the leaders of
the cause of God who were assembling in General Conference
early in 1899. "Our brethren have not discerned that in
helping us," she wrote to them concerning the value of
maintaining strong training centers for workers in
Australasia, "they would be helping themselves. That which
is given to start the work here, will result in
strengthening the work in other places. As your gifts free