The Story of our Health Message

CHAPTER 29 THE CALL FOR A THIRD SANITARIUM

THOUGH both the Paradise Valley and the Glendale properties, secured in 1904 for sanitarium work, were of the type of situations divinely called for, yet neither of them corresponded in all details with the clear-cut description of one particular place which Seventh-day Adventists were to operate as a medical institution. Three years before finding either of these places, Mrs. White had described a certain sanitarium property in southern California which she had been shown in a vision of the night. From her journal, under date of October 10, 1901, we quote: SHM 343.1

“I have been unable to sleep after half-past eleven at night. Many things, in figures and symbols, are passing before me. There are sanitariums in running order near Los Angeles. At one place there is an occupied building, and there are fruit trees on the sanitarium grounds. In this institution, outside the city, there is much activity.”—E. G. White Manuscript 152, 1901 SHM 343.2