Loma Linda Messages

Minutes of Pacific Union Conference Committee Meeting

Held in Mountain View, California.
July 7, 8 a.m.

W. B. White, W. T. Knox, H. H. Hall, M. C. Wilcox present. E. R. Palmer, G. A. Irwin, and W. C. White were asked to take part. LLM 105.5

Prayer was offered by secretary. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved, after being corrected. LLM 105.6

Recommendations concerning the work in Southern California were then presented by Elders Irwin and W. C. White, and after being carefully considered and revised, were passed as follows: LLM 105.7

Whereas, Much light regarding the matter of how to care for the sick has been given to the Seventh-day Adventist people, and with the light, large responsibility to provide sanitariums in favorable and needy localities; and LLM 105.8

Whereas, We have been led through the Testimonies to the Church to expect that in various localities, and especially in Southern California, properties suitable for Sanitarium work (174) would be offered to our people for prices far below their cost and actual value; and we were instructed by the Testimonies to look for and be ready to improve these opportunities to secure such sanitarium properties as we need; LLM 105.9

Whereas, In fulfillment of our expectation, the Glendale property, worth LLM 106.1

(Missing in original) Valley Property, worth thirty thousand dollars, for less than one-fifty of that amount; and recently the Loma Linda property, worth at least one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, for one-third of that amount; and

Whereas, The purchase of these three large sanitarium properties with the expense of fitting up and furnishing the new, Restaurant and Treatment rooms in Los Angeles, and the purchase of the Fernando school property, constitutes a very heavy financial burden for the brethren of Southern California; and LLM 106.2

Whereas, The Scripture says, “Bear ye one another's burdens,” and in time past our people in Southern California have been able and willing to assist the general work and our institutions in other parts of the field; Therefore, LLM 106.3

RESOLVED, That we encourage our brethren and sisters in Southern California in the arduous tasks they have undertaken, by expressing our appreciation of their faith in following the counsels given in the Testimonies, and their courage in undertaking great things for the sick and suffering; and that we encourage our brethren and sisters throughout our field to assist them in their great undertakings, with gifts, and loans without interest and loans at a low rate of interest, so that they may quickly free these institutions from all outside obligations, and place them in the most favorable position to do their blessed work, and that our brethren in soliciting such funds and loans outside of the Territory of Southern California do so in harmony with arrangements they may make with the different Conference Committees. LLM 106.4

Whereas, At a former meeting of this Committee, we counseled our brethren of the Southern California Conference, that, in view of their large financial responsibilities, it was not wise for the Conference to purchase Loma Linda; and LLM 106.5

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Whereas, We have recently learned more fully the fitness and value of the Loma Linda property for Sanitarium purposes, and how clearly it was presented to Sister White that the place should be purchased, for if it were not, others would secure it whose presence and work would greatly interfere with our work; also that when Sister White visited Loma Linda, she said that it corresponded exactly to the representations made to her in vision, of one of the places that would be offered to us, and that it should be secured; and that at the Los Angeles meeting of June 20, 1905, she strongly advised our brethren to secure the place without delay; therefore; LLM 106.6

RESOLVED,That while the Pacific Union Conference cannot enter into any legal responsibility in this matter, yet we will do all in our power to assist the Southern California brethren in making this institution a success, and that we approve of plan adopted at their recent meeting for holding the property and managing the enterprise. LLM 106.7

The Committee on Relief work then presented to the Pacific Union Conference Committee their actions concerning the book, Ministry of Healing. These actions will be found on separate sheet. LLM 107.1

W. B. White, President,
H. H. Hall, Secretary.

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