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obtain homes where they will be able to live without requiring high
wages.—
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 492
(1904).
Mountain View is a town which has many advantages. It is sur-
rounded by beautiful orchards. The climate is mild and fruit and
vegetables of all kinds can be grown. The town is not large, yet it has
electric lights, mail carriers, and many other advantages usually seen
only in cities.—
Letter 141, 1904
.
Some have wondered why our office of publication should be
moved from Oakland to Mountain View. God has been calling upon
His people to leave the cities. The youth who are connected with our
institutions should not be exposed to the temptations and the corruption
to be found in the large cities. Mountain View has seemed to be a
favorable location for the printing office.—
Country Living, 29
(1905).
Loma Linda, California
We thank the Lord that we have a good sanitarium at Paradise
Valley, seven miles from San Diego; a sanitarium at Glendale, eight
miles from Los Angeles; and a large and beautiful place at Loma
Linda, sixty-two miles east from Los Angeles, and close to Redlands,
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Riverside, and San Bernardino. The Loma Linda property is one of
the most beautiful sanitarium sites I have ever seen.—
Loma Linda
Messages, 141
(1905).
Loma Linda is a place that the Lord has especially designated as a
center for the training of medical missionaries.—
Letter 188, 1907
.
Here there are wonderful advantages for a school. The farm, the
orchard, the pasture land, the large buildings, the ample grounds, the
beauty—all are a great blessing.—
Loma Linda Messages, 310
(1907).
This place, Loma Linda, has wonderful advantages, and if those
who are here will faithfully avail themselves of the advantages to
become true medical missionaries they will let their light shine forth to
those that are around them. We must seek God daily for His wisdom
to be imparted to us.—
Letter 374, 1907
.
Here we have ideal advantages for a school and for a sanitarium.
Here are advantages for the students and great advantages for the
patients. I have been instructed that here we should have a school,
conducted on the principles of the ancient schools of the prophets....