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#1115
ELLEN
WHITE
COMMENTS
ON
FINDING
WATER
AT
THE
PARADISt
VALLEY
SANITARIUM:
A
COLLECTION
OF
SOURCE
DOCUMENTS
In
September,
1902,
Ellen
White
visited
the
site
of
the
present
Paradise
Valley
Hospital,
National
City,
California.
What
she
saw
was
a
three-story
building
containing
about
50
rooms,
situated
on
a
20-acre
property,
well
landscaped
with
rare
shade
trees.
She
urged
that
the
property
be
purchased
if
the
money
could
be
raised.
Although
the
institu-
tion,
under
the
original
owners,
had
failed
twice,
largely
for
lack
of
water,
Mrs.
White
felt
sure
that
water
could
be
found.
In
1904
the
institution
was
purchased,
and
renovations
were
begun
in
preparation
for
receiving
the
first
patients.
During
these
months
of
prepa-
ration
water
was
scarce
and
vegetation
showed
evidence
of
the
prevailing
drought.
But
Mrs.
White
insisted
that
water
was
available,
if
they
would
di?
a
well.
The
well
was
dug
in
November
and,
much
to
the
surprise
and
delight
of
everyone,
it
yielded
an
abundant
supply
of
pure,
soft
water.
This
collection
of
letters
contains
every
known
Ellen
White
reference
to
the
finding
of
water
at
Paradise
Valley.
If
other
references
are
found,
they
will
be
included
in
future
editions
of
this
collection.
Ellen
G.
White
Estate
March,
1985
Table
of
Contents
Date
Document
pag
1904
EGW
to
Elder
and
Mrs.
E.
R.
Palmer
(Lt
233)
2
1904
EGW
to
Sister
Gray
(Lt
317)
5
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
(Ms
147)
8
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
(Ms
147)
8
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
éMs
147g
8
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
(Ms
147
10
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
éMs
147%
10
1904
EGW
Diary
Entry
(Ms
147
11
1904
EGW
to
J.
H.
Kellogg
(Lt
311)
11
1904
EGW
to
May
Lacey
White,
Henry,
Herbert,
and
17
Gracie
(Lt
319)
1904
EGW
to
Sister
Druillard
(Lt
321)
22
.
21.
1904
EGW
to
the
Members
in
Australia
(Lt
392)
28
.
21,
1904
EGW
to
D.
H.
and
Lauretta
Kress
(Lt
331)
31
.
29,
1904
EGW
to
Mrs.
Marian
Stowell
Crawford
(Lt
349)
36
.11,
1905
EGW
to
Addie
and
May
Walling
(Lt
109)
41
2,
1906
EGW
to
Mary
Foss
(Lt
112)
45
18,
1904
EGW
to
El11a
May
and
Mable
White
(Lt
393)
50
.
23,
1904
EGW
to
Ella
May
and
Mable
White
(Lt
394)
53
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Letier
233,
1904.
(To
Elder
and
Mrs.
E.
R.
Palmer,
July
8,
1904,
from
Takoma
Park,
Washington,
D.
C.)
Last
Wednesday,
July
6,
W.
C.
White,
Sara,
Maggie,
and
I
left
Nashviile
for
Washington.
Just
before
we
left,
a
meeting
of
the
Southern
Union
Conference
Committee
was
held
1n
Nashville,
for
the
purpose
of
devising
some
means
of
helping
the
Huntsville
school.
Those
who
have
had
charge
of
the
school
have
not
felt
the
importance
of
putting
brain,
bone,
and
muscle
to
the
tax
in
an
effort
to
make
the
school
a
success.
The
students
who
attend
tnis
school
are
to
be
given
an
education
that
will
fit
them
to
work
for
the
Master.
They
are
toc
be
given
more
than
book
knowledge.
Should
they
be
given
book
knowledge
merely,
their
education
would
be
imperfect.
There
should
be
a
special
school
for
the
younger
anes.
Fathers
and
mothers
are
to
be
placed
on
the
land,
and
parents
as
well
as
children
are
to
be
given
an
education.
Promising
famiiies
are
to
be
brought
in
and
settled
upon
a
piece
of
ground
as
large
as
shall
be
deemed
best.
In
connection
with
the
school
there
should
be
an
experienced
carpenter
who
can
teach
the
fathers
and
their
boys
how
to
build
their
homes,
which
are
to
be
neat,
con-
venient,
inexpensive
buildings.
The
mothers
should
be
taught
how
to
prepare
food
hygienically,
and
how
tu
care
for
the
sick.
While
1
was
in
the
South,
I
visited
Huntsville.
The
Southern
Union
Conference
Comnittee
held
a
meeting
while
we
were
there,
and
1
had
much
to
read
to
the
brethren
assembled.
A
heavy
burden
rested
upon
me
while
I
was
at
this
place.
[
knew
that
there
must
be
a
change
in
the
faculty--that
more
thorough
men
must
take
up
the
work.
When
a
man
has
occupied
the
same
posi-
tion
for
years,
and
yet
the
school,
1in
its
inside
and
outside
working,
1s
still
far
from
what
it
ought
to
be,
a
change
must
be
made.
A
man
must
be
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