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CHAPTER 31 HOW THE PAYMENTS WERE MET

ONE OF the strongest arguments of those who were hesitant about the purchase of the property in Loma Linda, California, was the seeming utter impossibility of meeting the payments for its purchase—$20,000—before the end of the year and the balance within another three years. Yet this very remarkable accomplishment was effected in a small conference of only 1,400 believers, with two other newly acquired sanitariums to finance, besides an academy, a vegetarian cafeteria, and treatment rooms, all of which were carrying more or less indebtedness. SHM 354.1