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

shall we do with the Colorado Sanitarium?"--Record of Progress and An
Earnest Appeal In Behalf of the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, 39. She then
discussed the situation:
The light given me has been that the plans followed in the building up
of this institution were not altogether in accordance with the mind and will of
God. Too much money was invested in the building.-- Ibid.
She pointed out that the solution in this case, as in other cases of a
similar character, was not in selling and getting out, but in making the
institution a success in spite of the problems. More than money was at stake:
After the investment has been made, the buildings erected, and our
workers have gone in there, and wrestled and wrestled to make the work a
success, and the Sanitarium has accomplished much good, shall we turn over
the place to private parties? After the workers have wrestled all these years,
shall those now connected with it give it up, and say they are beaten? We
cannot have it so. No such representation of our work is to be made before
the world.-- Ibid.
Every employee was to stretch his energies to make it a success. She
declared:
God wants this institution to stand as an educating power in the
medical missionary work, and He desires that those who have been
struggling with all their might to make it a success shall not have labored in
vain.... The light given me is that we should not rest until the Boulder
Sanitarium is a decided success. What we need is to gird on the armor, and
advance in unity.--Ibid., 39, 40.
She was positive in her position:
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