Loma Linda Messages

J. R. Leadsworth to J. A. Burden, Nov. 10, 1909

Santa Ana, Calif. Nov. 10, 1909.

Elder J. A. Burden, Loma Linda, Calif.

Dear Brother:—

I intended as much as could be to have a talk with you while there and put it off till evening after Sabbath, and then I thought that you had always a lot of things to attend to at that particular time, and as I wanted to get home on the early overland on the Santa Fe, decided to go to Riverside that night and be on hand for the early train. LLM 456.2

I shall be glad to meet with you in Los Angeles in council at some set time. Relative to putting in $100, and becoming one of the incorporators, is not yet just clear. You know that I do not entirely endorse some of the ideas of elaborate paraphernalia that has directed things, and I do not believe that the amounts you mention will be a drop in the bucket compared to what is wanted, after you get fairly launched. LLM 456.3

Doubtless the same Providence that has directed thus far will see you through, but I do not see a man in sight that is broad enough and magnanimous enough, and liberal enough to take the lead of your school in a medical way. And if I were alone in thinking so I might not hold very tenaciously to my opinion, but I think that opinion prevails quite generally. Often we have to do the best with the material at hand, but in so important a matter as this I would say that everything depends upon getting a leader that will inspire the confidence of the people both on the outside and inside. So far the Red Sea has opened and almost insurmountable obstacles have been overcome, but there are still some. LLM 456.4

Is Bro. Wessels trying to work Br. Comstock into his place? It looks that way. Are they coming any nearer to running even? My work is piling up on me so that I must get a good boy to help me out. Yesterday I treated five men. LLM 456.5

Yours in the work,
(Signed) Dr. J. R. Leadsworth.

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