Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 22 (1907)

Lt 182, 1907

Robinson, A. T.

Glendale, California

May 22, 1907

This letter is published in entirety in PC 285-286.

Elder A. T. Robinson

Dear Brother Robinson:

At our request Brother Burden has consented to visit important gatherings of our people in the middle west and to endeavor to secure gifts or loans for some of our Southern California sanitariums. We desire that wherever he goes he may be given opportunity to present the work and needs of the Paradise Valley Sanitarium and the Loma Linda Sanitarium. We need help in both these places. Both at Loma Linda and at Paradise Valley it has been necessary to build additions to the main building for bathrooms. This has left us with debts that must be met shortly, and we greatly need financial assistance. 22LtMs, Lt 182, 1907, par. 1

At Loma Linda, a school is being conducted for the training of medical missionary evangelists, and we want this school to be of the highest order. Both the sanitarium and the school can be a help one to the other. 22LtMs, Lt 182, 1907, par. 2

Elder Burden has felt an earnest interest in the advancement of the sanitarium work along right lines. He and Sister Burden have put their whole soul into an effort to make the work at Loma Linda a success. They have put into the institution all the means they could spare to keep the enterprise moving. We have the utmost confidence in the integrity of Brother Burden and have no reason to doubt that the Lord selected him as the manager of the Loma Linda Sanitarium. 22LtMs, Lt 182, 1907, par. 3

Will you, Brother Robinson, assist Brother Burden in his mission in half of these institutions? You may introduce him to some of our loyal brethren who have means, or you may permit him to speak before gatherings of our people and raise donations or loans in your conference. We trust that our brethren in Nebraska may be able to assist in relieving the pressure for means that exists at present in these two sanitariums that the Lord has providentially placed in our hands. 22LtMs, Lt 182, 1907, par. 4

I will not have time to write more at this time. Dores is now taking the trunks to the station, and we leave Los Angeles tonight at 11:30. We expect to stop off for a few days at the Merced camp-meeting. I will praise the Lord if He gives me strength to speak to our people in the large tent there. 22LtMs, Lt 182, 1907, par. 5