Loma Linda Messages

Loma Linda Sanitarium

June 30, 1907

The Sanitarium was purchased May 26, 1905. During the summer, little was done at the institution except raise funds to meet the payments, and secure a corp of workers. LLM 212.3

The first of October workers began to put the sanitarium in order to receive patients. By the first of Nov., patients began to arrive and at one time during the winter we had over forty patients. Our income for the eight months of the first year, ending June 30, 1906, was $23,625.05 and donations for the year $2,838.13. After settling all our running expenses for the year, including the five months' expenses when the institution was not earning anything, our surplus, at the end of the year, was $1,160 23. LLM 212.4

During this time, the work had gotten nicely started, the school was opened in a small way. LLM 212.5

At a council meeting held at Loma Linda in the month of April, at which Sister White, and members of the Union Conference and the Southern Calif. Conference Committee, were present, definite arrangements were made for the organization of the Loma Linda College Medical Evangelists, and Professor W. E. Howell was invited to take charge of the school. On the fourth of October, 1906, the college was formally opened, and during the year there have been about forty students in attendance in the various courses, seven of whom graduated from the third Nurses' Course, July 10, 1907. The college offers three distinct courses of study, besides, some preparatory work in English and Science and certain classes of collegiate work. LLM 212.6

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The first is a three years Nurses' Course, the second a three years Medical Course, and the third an elective course covering one year, designed for Gospel workers who wish a preparation for general medical missionary work. LLM 213.1

Some field missionary work was carried on during the school year by such students as were prepared to engage in labor. Nearly two hundred copies of the “Seer of Patmos” and a great many health books were placed in the homes of the people of the San Bernardino Valley. LLM 213.2

Schools of health were held at San Bernardino, Highlands, Redlands, Riverside, Corona, Highgrove, Los Angeles and Gardena, at which a large number of ladies were reached with the health principles in lectures and demonstrations, and the way opened for the work to extend to various places in southern Calif. LLM 213.3

Lectures in hygiene and health and temperance were given in the public schools in San Bernardino, Highlands, Riverside, Corona, and Highgrove, to more than two thousand school children, and fourteen hundred copies of the temperance number of the “Youth's Instructor” were distributed to the school children. The influence of this work was such that the superintendent of public instruction gave our workers a standing invitation to come to the school at any time and lecture to the pupils on any health and temperance subject. In the San Bernardino schools the superintendent arranged for a special course of lectures and cooking demonstrations for the school teachers after school hours. LLM 213.4

The way in which this work started and grew shows how the Lord prepared the way before the workers. The work was started with the San Bernardino Church, but soon extended to the church school, from the church members to their neighbors. LLM 213.5

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Those ladies soon opened the way for the work to be introduced into the mothers' meetings. Here our workers had some most interesting experiences. These mothers so appreciated the truth that they opened the way for these lectures to be given in the public schools. The lectures on hygiene, tobacco, condiments, and spirituous liquors so stirred public thought that the way was soon open for it to extend to the schools in other places. These experiences opened the way for the work to be presented to the W.C.T.U. Convention at Redlands, and from this meeting calls came for the work to extend to many places all over southern Calif. LLM 213.6

At the close of the school, a mission was opened in San Bernardino, and two of the graduate nurses were sent over that a more thorough work in educating the people in the principles of life and health might be accomplished. The plan is to have a small house for the workers where they can give simple treatments and labor from house to house in ministering to the people physically and spiritually. The workers are making warm friends, and already several are interested in the truth. LLM 214.1

During the past year, the sanitarium has had a growing patronage. Its income for the past twelve months, ending June 30, 1906, was $36,698.72, or $1,751.24 more than the running expenses. During this time, the donations amounted to eight thousand six hundred forty-seven dollars and forty-six cents ($8,647.46), of which the sanitarium family paid in from their small salaries $3,491.71. At our last campmeeting, pledges were taken to the amount of $12,000, but these included only a small portion of the amount donated by the Loma Linda family. There remains nearly $8,000 of the pledges still unpaid. After making allowance of nearly $1,650 depreciation on furnishings and buildings, $350.00 provision for questionable accounts, $571.09 loss in starting the Loma Linda College, and (375) closing off a loss of $604.00 in closing up the Riverside treatment rooms, the present worth of Loma Linda, June 30, 1907, was $7,236.78. LLM 214.2

Since purchasing Loma Linda, we have added forty-three acres to the real estate, five rooms to the cottages that were there, have built one five-room and one twelve-room cottage, put up an addition to the building, 40 x 80, three stories high, installed a new heating plant in the main building, built a dairy barn, poultry yard and hen house, increased our poultry stock, added thirty cows to our dairy, four horses and a few furnishings to our livery. These with the necessary furnishings and appliances for our school and medical work, make the entire investment at Loma Linda for real estate, buildings, furnishings, and livestock, exclusive of supplies on hand, a little over $80,000. LLM 214.3

There are still some things needed at Loma Linda, among which I will mention an elevator, and a dining room for the students. At present all have to eat in the patient's dining room. There is also needed a small bakery plant and a few cheap cottages for the workers to live in. We hope this conference may seriously consider some of these necessities and may lay definite plans for the extension of this field medical missionary work of which I have spoken at some length. LLM 214.4

During these meetings we hope opportunity may be given for a somewhat extended study of this particular branch of our message, and that this Conference shall consider most carefully the object and purpose of the Loma Linda College of Evangelists and its duty toward this institution in thought of its purpose and the present crying need of a place for the needed training of our young people who are to carry forward this branch of the message. LLM 214.5

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