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

The Very Spot Shown in Vision

The people seemed pleased with her words. W. C. White followed with some remarks. After the dedicatory prayer, the building was open for inspection. In time he and Mr. Greenfield, St. Helena's lumber merchant, with whom W. C. was well acquainted, found themselves on the hillside just back and to the west of the hospital. As they gazed to the southwest Greenfield spoke: “Mr. White, look at that view! What a site for a hospital! People could not help but get well here!” 6BIO 142.6

Then it occurred to W. C. that they were standing on the very spot where, twenty-four years earlier, he had stood with Mrs. Scott and his mother. Sister Scott had asked for the very site where the hospital now stood and Ellen White had said: “No, I can't let you have the piece, Sister Scott; I have been shown that there will be other buildings here someday.”—As told to the author by WCW. 6BIO 142.7

The hospital building on the brow of the hill, connected by a covered walk with other Sanitarium buildings, served for half a century. Then it gave way, following general reconstruction plans, to provide for hospital facilities in close conjunction with the main plant. 6BIO 143.1

As the Sanitarium church outgrew the chapel that adjoined the original Sanitarium buildings, the uncluttered site just across the road from where the hospital had been—where Ellen White refused Mrs. Scott's request for a spot for her home—became the location for a beautiful house of worship for the Lord. Overlooking Elmshaven, it was named the Elmshaven church. 6BIO 143.2