Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Finding Suitable Places
It was some time before we found these places.
First, we secured the Paradise Valley Sanitarium,
near San Diego. A few months later, in the good
providence of God, the Glendale property came to
the notice of our people and was purchased and
fitted up for service. But light came that our work
of establishing sanitariums in Southern California
was not complete, and on several different
occasions testimonies were given that medical
missionary work must be done somewhere in the
vicinity of Redlands.
In an article published in the Review of April 6,
1905, I wrote:
“On our way back to Redlands, as our train
passed through miles of orange groves, I thought of
the efforts that should be made in this beautiful
valley to proclaim the truth for this time. I
recognized this section of Southern California as
one of the places that had been presented to me
with the word that it should have a fully equipped
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