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

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rope.... It is not at all likely they will be able to anywhere nearly pay their

running expenses.--J. H. Kellogg letter attached to AGD to EGW, October

11, 1905.

Daniells saw all this as "a great dragnet with which to catch our young

people": it could cause the loss of "hundreds of the very flower of our young

people" (AGD to EGW, October 11, 1905).

At Elmshaven the staff began collecting material for publication

concerning the Battle Creek issues. They expected it might make a book (29

WCW, p. 402).

A week before Elder Daniells' October 11 letter came to Ellen White,

her son reported:

There was a great burden on her mind because of the influences going

out from Battle Creek to mislead and confuse our people. She told me that

what she has written to our physicians and sanitarium managers in the past

must be printed, and she called my attention to a large number of

manuscripts which she said contained information which our people ought to

have. So your letter was not a surprise to Mother.-- Ibid., 294, 295.

The counsel of church leaders was sought as to what should be

published and how it should reach the field

First General Conference Medical Missionary Convention

On November 16, W. C. White left the West Coast to attend the first

General Conference Medical Missionary Convention to be held at College

View, Nebraska, November 21-26 (Ibid., 664; The Review and Herald,

November 16, 1905).

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