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

him. On Thursday night, September 28, a vision was given to her providing
"further light." This formed the basis of three communications. The first, a
letter to Dr. Wade, was written October 2:
I have not written to you before, regarding the sanitarium enterprise
with which you are connected; for I have received no light that would lead
me to write anything contrary to that which was contained in the testimony
read in Denver by Elder Irwin. But I am now prepared to speak positively.
Last Thursday night [September 28] the matter was presented to me more
fully.
She told Dr. Wade that he was in need of "treatment from the Great
Physician of soul and body." "You need a new spiritual life," she urged, and
then added:
Were a sanitarium established by you, circumstances would arise that
would injure the experience of others who might be connected with the
institution. The matter has been made plain to me, and I am authorized to say
that the men who are united in the matter of erecting and controlling a
sanitarium in Canon City are not qualified to do the best kind of work.
Should they carry out their plans there would be disappointment and
continual friction.--Letter 285, 1905.
This was followed by a personal appeal for the cultivation of the
heavenly graces.
The same day she wrote an eight-page testimony addressed to "The
Promoters of the Canon City Sanitarium." It opened with words right to the
point:
Last Thursday night, September 28, light was given me that the
testimonies written out and sent to Elder Irwin to be read at the camp
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