The Later Elmshaven Years: 1905-1915 (vol. 6) - Ellen G. White

$300,000. [It should be noted that although Ellen White abhorred debt, she
recognized that at times it was necessary to borrow money to advance the
work of the Church. She was opposed to institutions carrying heavy
indebtedness.]
When pressed as to whether Reaser should continue his connections
with the sanitarium work, Ellen White declared:
It is not that you are not to be connected with the work, but that you are
not to be connected with it to discourage.... There is a kind of authority that
you feel at liberty to use, that the Lord does not give you--a kind of
domineering that is not in harmony with the Lord's work and our relation one
with another.-- Ibid.
Two weeks after the interview and a week after the dedication of the
hospital building at St. Helena Sanitarium, Ellen White, with several
members of her staff, went to southern California to attend a convention of
physicians, ministers, and leading workers. They arrived at Loma Linda on
Monday, October 28. She spent two months in southern California dividing
her time between the convention, the three sanitariums, speaking
appointments, and giving counsel concerning the school in operation at
Loma Linda. Her eightieth birthday passed with but little notice. Her heavy
burden was the matter that had been of deep concern to her for the past few
months, the administration of the Southern California Conference. On
Sunday, November 3, while at Loma Linda, she wrote:
I have passed a wakeful night, for there have been presented to me
some things connected with the past, present, and future of the work in
southern California.
I have now no hesitation in speaking plainly, and in calling things by
their right names. For three nights in succession, the message has been given
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