Our early Adventist pioneers
had a radical new theology,
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but it wasn't just limited
to the four walls of a church.
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They were at the forefront
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of many of the
new social movements
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such as the temperance movement
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as well as the
abolition of slavery.
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Slavery had been
practiced in America
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since its earliest days
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and was considered normal
in some parts of the country
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but not for the early
founders of Adventism.
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William Miller, Joseph
Bates, and Joshua V. Himes,
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all spoke actively and openly
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against this evil institution.
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In the mid 1800s,
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slavery was widely
practiced in the Southern states
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but not up North and
many slaves attempted to
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and succeeded in
escaping to freedom
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via the Underground Railroad.
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It was neither
underground nor a railroad
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but a network of homes,
farms, and transportation
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that would get someone
secretly from the South
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up to the northern
states or to Canada.
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Perhaps the most famous name
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associated with this
movement of liberation
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is Harriet Tubman,
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who helped
thousands of people to escape.
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Also, Sojourner Truth
spoke widely and passionately
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against slavery,
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and she was baptized as
an Adventist by Uriah Smith.
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John Byington, the first
General Conference president
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used his farm
in upstate New York
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as a stop on the
Underground Railroad as well.
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Early Adventists were encouraged
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to help out in this
defying the law of the land.
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In 1850, the Fugitive
Slave Law was passed by Congress
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to strengthen the earlier
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but often neglected law of 1793.
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It required any citizen
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to return an
escaped slave to his master
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would find and
punishment in case of violation.
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Ellen White
commenting on the relationship
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that Adventists
should have to this law set.
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"The law of our
land requiring us
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to deliver an
escaped slave to his master,
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we are not to
obey, and we must abide
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the consequences of
violating this law."
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J. N.
Loughborough, J. N. Andrews,
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Uriah Smith, Joseph
Bates, and James White,
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all wrote and held
positions against slavery.
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The church was advocating
a revolutionary new approach
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and endeavoring to
adhere to biblical principles
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over culture and
the norms of society.
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Ellen White also advocated
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that those who
held pro-slavery views
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should be
disfellowshipped from church.
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As soon as
slavery was abolished,
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the Adventist
Church made inroads
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into the Southern states,
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and Edson
White's Morning Star boat
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pioneered the
work in many new areas.
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Schools, churches,
printing presses, sanitariums,
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and food companies were opened.
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As the work progressed,
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the need arose for a
school to train workers.
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And on November the 16th, 1896,
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Oakwood
Industrial School was opened.
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Oakwood will go on
to be a flagship school
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amongst the
African-American community
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here in North America.
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And for over 120 years now,
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they have educated
thousands of students,
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sending graduates
all around the world.
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Some of their
most famous graduates
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would include evangelists,
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E.E. Cleveland, and C.D. Brooks,
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just two of the
many prolific pastors
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that have passed
through this campus.
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Oakwood is also famous
for its world renowned choir,
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the Oakwood Aeolians.
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Oakwood will also play a role
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in the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s
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hosting Dr. Martin Luther King,
who spoke here on this campus
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after there was
nowhere else in the city
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that would have him.
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As the church we
once held positions
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on matters of
equality and justice
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that was ahead
of general society
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rather than behind it.
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In some ways, we have
lost this radical edge,
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finding comfort in the accepted
norms of practice Christianity
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rather than seeking
clear biblical practice
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in all that we do.
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This radical and
revolutionary edge
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that we once had
needs to be reclaimed,
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and as a church,
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we ought to be at the
forefront of social change,
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demonstrating the
gospel in our communities
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as we seek to relieve
the suffering of humanity.
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"There is something
about your Adventist fires,"
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local fire
chief Weekes remarked.
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He had fought
two Adventist fires
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with his success
score being zero.
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He also said that
the water poured on
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acted more like gasoline.
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Ellen White had
warned the Review
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that they were
on dangerous ground
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and was not surprised
when she heard of the fire
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on December the 30th, 1902.
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In 1901, she had written
to the managers of the Review
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and said, "I have
been almost afraid
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to open the Review,
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fearing that God has cleansed
the publishing house by fire."
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The Review had gotten
itself into a situation,
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whereas publishing
more commercial work
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than what its
original intention was.
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It had come a long way
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since the early days
in Paris Hill, Maine,
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and the times of
extreme sacrifice
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in Rochester, New York.
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It was now a huge institution,
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the largest printing
press in the state of Michigan.
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On that day, though,
nothing could stop the fire,
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destroying the
40,000 square foot building,
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with only the West building
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that housed the
General Conference offices
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and book and bank
depositories left standing.
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The Review had
on press at the time
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a book by Dr.
John Harvey Kellogg,
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entitled "The Living Temple."
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This book had
pantheistic strains throughout
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and would have caused much
harm to the Review if published.
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The book marked
a significant shift
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in the
philosophy of Dr. Kellogg,
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who had started out
with such great promise
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and was one of the
leading doctors in America.
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Dr. Kellogg had become
controlling and dictatorial
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and was increasingly difficult
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for the church
leadership to work with.
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Earlier that year
on February the 18th,
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the sanitarium suffered a fire.
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Was it an accident or
something bigger than that?
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A warning for Dr.
Kellogg to get back on track.
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The Review had
decided to relocate completely
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to Washington DC in
line with the new council
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that so many institutions
should not operate in one area.
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Despite the warning
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not to rebuild a
large institution,
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Dr. Kellogg not only
rebuilt but doubled it in size,
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from 106 patients in 1866
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to over 7,000 by 1906.
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It was a huge institution.
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Unfortunately, Dr. Kellogg
would end up leaving the church
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being disfellowshipped in 1907
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during some
turbulent times for our church.
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He refused to let go
of the pantheistic ideas
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in the book "The Living Temple,"
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and also some of
his medical practices
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started to become questionable.
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Unfortunately, today,
many of the health reform ideas
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have been taken over
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or have strong
ties to Eastern religion
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and the New Age Movement.
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We need to be careful
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that our health
reform stays biblical
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and is not influenced
by these philosophies.
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When John Harvey Kellogg
broke away from the church,
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to some people, it looked
like the church would fall.
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A lot of
properties were in his name,
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and he had more employees
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than the whole
General Conference.
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Some people said that
we needed to compromise
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in order to keep him on board
or else we wouldn't survive.
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But over the next
few years and decades,
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the church would go on strong.
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And a sanitarium that
seemed so strong and vibrant
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would become a pale
shadow of its former glory,
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struggling in
the Great Depression
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and eventually closing down.
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Both institutions were huge.
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And this in itself
tells us something.
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God does not respect
the size of the institution.
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Sometimes we think
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because it's
God's publishing house
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or God's sanitarium,
then He has to bless it.
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No, He doesn't.
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God is not want
to be manipulated.
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If we are persistent
in doing our own thing
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and blindly keep
asking for God's blessing,
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then there may come a time
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when He removes
it from our lives.
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Size does not matter to God
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or mean that we
have His blessing.
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Faithfulness does.
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For us to get to Iona today,
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we have to come to
a town called Oban.
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It's about three
hours north of Glasgow,
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which is about seven
hours north of London.
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From Oban, you have to take
a ferry to the isle of Mull.
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You drive one hour
across the isle of Mull,
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and then you have to take
another ferry to get to Iona.
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It takes at
least, minimum one day,
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if not two, just to arrive here.
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On the journey up here,
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my mind goes back
to the missionaries
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who would go out from here.
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If it took us
two days to get here,
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how long would
it have taken them
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in the 500s and 600s and 700 AD
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to leave from this island
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and then spread
out around Scotland,
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England, Wales,
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and then go across to
Europe as missionaries.
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They spent a long time,
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long journeys
traveling across as missionaries
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throughout the British
Isles and throughout Europe
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because they believe
fervently in the gospel
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which they had learned here
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in this mission
training institute.
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God's calling us today as
well to be missionaries for Him.
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It may even be
just crossing the road
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and speaking to a neighbor,
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and maybe talking to
someone at university
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and maybe going
to a faraway country
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or wherever God
is calling you today,
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may you take up a call
and be a missionary for Him.
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When I was growing up, if
you wanted to study history
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or do research on
a particular topic,
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there was really only
one option that we had,
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and that was to read a book.
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And I never really used
to like reading that much.
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So we decided to
create a resource
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that will translate
this written information
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into the language of today.
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My name is Adam Ramdin.
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And my name is Clive Coutet.
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And we are the
cofounders of Lineage Journey.
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Back in 2016, I was
reading "The Great Controversy"
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and I was really struggling
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to find any
relevant video resources
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that I could use
to aid me in my study.
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So I decided to approach Adam
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about the possibility
of making some videos
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on the Reformation.
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So we started
filming in the end of 2016,
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and in 2017, we
released 48 videos
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that covered the
period of the early church
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all the way through to
the end of the Reformation.
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Then in 2018 and 2019,
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we released another 52
episodes on church history.
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These have now been
viewed all over the world
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in over 100 countries
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covering about 50
different languages.
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And we have over 3
million views online.
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These videos have
been used as a resource
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in both secular
and Christian schools
00:14:01.90\00:14:04.34
as well as several
church denominations
00:14:04.37\00:14:06.47
across the globe
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using Bible
studies, study groups
00:14:07.88\00:14:10.11
as well as played to
the general congregation.
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They also make a great
online evangelistic tool
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where people are
able to share them,
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and we've seen
them go into countries
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that we ourselves can't go,
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countries that
are Muslim countries
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where the
Christian message cannot go.
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One of the
challenges we have, though,
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is that amongst our
team of almost 10 people,
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we are all
volunteers on this project,
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sacrificing our time,
our effort, and energy
00:14:29.60\00:14:32.00
in order to make
these resources together.
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Just to put
things into perspective,
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each Lineage episode
as well as the filming
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takes an
additional two to three days
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in post-production.
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That is a lot of
time and sacrifice
00:14:42.34\00:14:44.38
that this team has made
00:14:44.41\00:14:45.75
in putting 100
episodes together.
00:14:45.78\00:14:47.48
So we need to raise the funds
00:14:47.52\00:14:48.92
to cover the cost of the filming
00:14:48.95\00:14:50.65
as well as the
continued production costs
00:14:50.69\00:14:53.59
that come after that.
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So for as little as $1 a month,
00:14:54.99\00:14:56.83
you can help us to
expand this ministry
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to create new resources
00:14:59.03\00:15:00.66
to reach more
people across the world.
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Loma Linda
literally means beautiful hill
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and the name of the area
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predate its use as a
sanitarium or hospital
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by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Purchased in 1905 as one
of three medical institutions
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along with Paradise
Valley and Glendale Sanitarium,
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they added to the 26 sanitariums
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that the church
already had at the time.
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Medical work was key in
the early days of our church
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and was something
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that people
sacrificed greatly for.
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In 1902, Ellen White predicted
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that properties
would come on the market
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in Southern California
far below their original cost.
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Paradise Valley was
originally priced at 25,000,
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then reduced to 12,000.
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And finally
purchased for just 4,000.
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Glendale Hospital
was priced at 50,000.
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Then it was reduced to 26,000,
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and then it came down to 12,000.
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Ellen White had said
there would be three though,
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and so she
instructed John Burden
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to look for another property
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between Riverside, San
Bernardino and Redlands.
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He found a 67 acre property
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that was on the
market for $155,000.
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This was far too high.
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Later on, it was reduced
to 110,000 and then 85,000,
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but this was still far too high.
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The General
Conference had just put in place
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a no debt policy,
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and they could not help out.
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Eventually, the
price came down to 40,000.
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A very good price
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as it included 31
acres of green land,
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22 of alfalfa, a
vegetable garden,
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an apricot orchard, a barn,
several cottages on the hill,
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three of which are
still standing today
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and $15,000 worth of
equipment and supplies.
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They have to make an
initial payment of $5,000
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and then 3
monthly payments of $5,000
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and then the remaining
20,000 at the end of 3 years.
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This wasn't going to be easy,
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but they were encouraged
by the urging of Ellen White
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that this would also
be an educational center
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in the future.
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On the 12th of June,
1905, Ellen White visited
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and as she came to the property,
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she said several times
that she had been here before.
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While she had not
visited in person,
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she was referring to
seeing the place in vision
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2 years earlier in
the autumn of 1903,
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and also in October of 1901,
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and a meeting of
church members soon after
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the conference
president stood up and spoke
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and mentioned how
Ellen White had said
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that this sanitarium should
be the principal training center
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on the West Coast.
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Ellen White
interrupted him and said
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this will be the
principal training center
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on the West Coast.
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Each month when the
$5,000 needed to be paid,
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it was a struggle
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with church
members across California,
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making huge
sacrificial offerings.
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One month they had no money
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until several
hours before the deadline
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when a check
arrived in the post,
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God had His hand in the process.
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And instead of
taking three years
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to clear the outstanding amount,
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it was paid off in 6 months,
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meaning they got an
additional deduction
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of $1,000.
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Over time, the
institution would grow
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to include the hospital
and the training school,
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which would later
become a university
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and in recent years,
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a children's
hospital has also been added.
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One of the early
names of the institution
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was the Loma Linda
College of Medical Evangelist
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showing the link
between evangelism and medicine.
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Many missionaries have
gone out from this institution
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over the last 100
years to mission fields
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both here at home
but also many to abroad.
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The medical work is to act
as the right arm of the gospel,
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supporting the
gospel work of the church.
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God needs medical
evangelists today,
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who will use
their medical skills
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to further the message
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and reach people
in their time of need.
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Today, there is a
need for people like this
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to go all over the world,
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to places that might seem risky,
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to war torn countries,
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to minister to
those stricken by poverty,
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to the young and the
old as well as the wealthy
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and those who see
no apparent need of God
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in their lives.
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The medical work
breaks down barriers
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in ways that nothing else can.
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If you were in this profession
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or God is
calling you to this work,
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then may you use your
talents for Him in this way.
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Though Australia was
not her home country,
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she had no plans to leave.
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And despite requests
from Pastor O.A Olsen,
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the GC president at the time,
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she was happy to
stay in Australia
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writing to her son Edson
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that she had no wish
to return to America.
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She enjoyed living in
Sunnyside near Avondale
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and thought that this
would be her last home.
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However in March of 1900,
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she was
overwhelmed by the conviction
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that she was
needed back in America,
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and plans were made to set
sail in August of that year.
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Upon arriving
back in California,
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Ellen now needed to find
a place to live and work.
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Oakland had grown
and changed considerably
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since she last lived there.
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Following her
son Willie's advice,
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she along with her assistant,
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Sarah McEnterfer headed
to the St. Helena Sanitarium
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to get some rest
while he continued to look.
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Someone at the sanitarium
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mentioned that
there was a house for sale
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just under the hill.
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Upon inspection, it was agreed
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that it would
meet her every need.
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It was well constructed
and completely furnished.
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The house now needed a name
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and due to the
large elm trees out front,
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it was called Elmshaven.
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It was whilst
living here in this house
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that she completed
some of her key books
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such as "Ministry of
Healing," "Acts of the Apostle,"
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an updated version of
"The Great Controversy."
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As the years passed on,
she traveled less and less.
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And then 1909 GC
session in Washington DC
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would be her last major trip.
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Towards the end of her life,
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Ellen White wrote lot of council
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on the need to
work the larger cities
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and strongly
encouraged church leaders
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to work the big
cities of San Francisco,
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New York,
Boston, and Los Angeles.
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She was frustrated by
the lack of enthusiasm
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and support and
the focus on obstacles.
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After some
modest plans were laid,
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A.G. Daniells, the
General Conference president
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at the time was in California
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and wanted to
visit with Ellen White.
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He came here to Elmshaven,
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but the messenger of
the Lord refused to see him.
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She sent words to him
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that when he was ready to follow
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the work that needed to be done,
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then she would talk to him.
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He then wrote a
humble and contrite letter
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to Ellen White.
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He then received a
message in response that said,
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when the president of
the General Conference
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is converted,
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he will know what
to do with the messages
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that God has sent him.
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Soon afterwards,
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they released Elder
Daniells for one year
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from his normal duties as
General Conference president
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so he could pursue
leadership in city evangelism.
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He chose New York
City and finally fulfilled
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what God had intended for
him to do in evangelistic work
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and help launch a new day
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in Seventh-day
Adventist city evangelism.
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A.G. Daniells
had heard the council
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about working the cities,
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but he hadn't fully
applied himself to it.
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Oftentimes we can be like that.
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We know what we ought to do,
but we don't take it seriously.
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And we want God to
give us more counsel
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or to affirm what
we already are doing.
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God needs people who
will follow the light
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that He gives.
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And then as they follow that,
He will give them more light
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as He guide them
along the pathway of life.
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Let us be faithful to God
in all areas of our lives.
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