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

News of the San Francisco Earthquake

On Wednesday as she neared the Carr Street church to fill her speaking appointment, she heard the newsboys crying: “San Francisco destroyed by an earthquake!” 6BIO 80.5

A paper was purchased, and she and those with her in the carriage quickly scanned the “first hastily printed news” (Testimonies for the Church 9:94). 6BIO 80.6

As to the visions on Monday and Tuesday nights, she later commented, “It has taken me many days to write out a portion of that which was revealed those two nights at Loma Linda and Glendale. I have not finished yet.”—The Review and Herald, July 5, 1906. She expected yet to write several articles on the binding claims of God's law and the blessings promised the obedient. 6BIO 80.7

As Ellen White attended a portion of the annual session of the Southern California Conference, she was particularly impressed with the report of its financial position. It had been so heavily in debt in 1905 that conference leaders despaired of becoming involved in sanitarium development. Now, a year after the purchase of Loma Linda, conference treasurers could report a material improvement of some $6,000 in the treasury Ibid., July 12, 1906). 6BIO 80.8