Life sketches of ellen g. white

"Having borne a great burden in the building up of the
Battle Creek Sanitarium, Elder and Mrs. White took special
pleasure in encouraging a like work in California, which
resulted in the development of the St. Helena Sanitarium-started
as the Rural Health Retreat. A lifelong physical
sufferer, Mrs. White's sympathies have ever been drawn out
to the afflicted. In connection with three other medical
missionary enterprises in California,--at Paradise Valley,
near San Diego; at Glendale, near Los Angeles; and at Loma
Linda,--Mrs. White has borne heroic burdens and rendered
great assistance. This is especially true of the College of
Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda. p. 458, Para. 5,
[LS15].
"In 1878 she visited Oregon. Here she attended Oregon's
first campmeeting, at Salem. . . . p. 459, Para. 1,
[LS15].
"Her life was a life of sacrifice. In poverty, in ill
health, in sickness herself and with family ill, laboring
with her hands in connection with her husband, economizing
to barest necessities of existence, ministering to others
hope and cheer under greatest discouragement herself, she
more than measured the span of her days in arduous selfdenial
and self-forgetfulness for others' sake. She has
given away many times over what would have kept her in
ease. Her appeals to others have been to do, do, do, for
God and humanity; but in this she has been greatly blessed
of God. Coming down to death's door many times, life
despaired of by friends, given up to die again and again by
physicians, she has been repeatedly and miraculously
restored to health. p. 459, Para. 2, [LS15].
"Mrs. White ceased her work here as she began-- poor in
this world's goods. Her income from her books--no
inconsiderable sum--has been used freely in giving
assistance to needy enterprises and needy people. Her heart
has always been sympathetic, and her own hands have often
ministered to the sick and suffering. . . . p. 459, Para.
3, [LS15].
"The life of Mrs. White lives after her. Enemies she has
made by her straightforward teaching and reproof. She has
been maligned and slandered. Those who know her best, can
best judge her life. She was human, subject to all the
infirmities and weaknesses of the race; but she found in
Christ a precious Saviour and Helper. He called her to do a