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- Preparation for the Camp Meeting
- Camp Meeting Opens with Large Attendance
- Beneficial Contacts with Capt. and Mrs. Press
- The Business Session of the Australian Conference
- A Union Conference Is Born
- The Work of the Union Outlined
- The School—Its Character and Location
- Breaking Camp
- Far-Reaching Influence of the Brighton Camp Meeting
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- The Earnest Search for a School Site
- Special Evidence in the Healing of Elder McCullagh
- Report to the Foreign Mission Board
- Making a Beginning
- The Furrow Story
- Norfolk Villa, Prospect Street, In Granville
- Running a Free Hotel
- New Home Is Better for W. C. White
- Work at Cooranbong Brought to a Standstill
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- How the Beginnings Were Made
- The Manual Training Department Succeeds
- Metcalfe Hare Joins the Staff
- Ellen White Buys Acreage from the School
- Planting and Building at Cooranbong
- Counsel and Help from an Experienced Orchardist
- Buying Cows
- A Start with Buildings for Avondale College
- Ellen White Continues to Write
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- Ellen White Employs Fannie Bolton
- The Character of Fannie Bolton's Work
- Ellen White Took Fannie to Australia
- E. G. White Warned in Vision
- Discharged from Ellen White's Service
- A Unique Vision
- Fannie Given Another Trial
- Fannie Bolton Explains her Editorial Work
- The Long-range Harvest of Falsehood and Misrepresentation
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- The Contented Working Family at Sunnyside
- Consulting with W. W. Prescott
- The Birth of Twin Grandsons
- An Appeal to the Wessels Family for Money
- Ellen G. White Stood as a Bank to the Cause
- The Staggering Blow
- The Sawmill Loft Put to Use
- Settlement of the Walling Lawsuit
- Good News! Money from Africa! Building Begins!
- The Adelaide Camp Meeting
- Sunnyside in Early Summer
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- The Work at the School
- The Garden at Sunnyside
- The Need of Competent Leaders
- The Successful Treatment of a Very Critical Case
- Marriage of S. N. Haskell and Hettie Hurd
- Counsel and Encouragement
- Ellen White Calls a Work Bee
- Announcement of the Opening of the School
- The Question of a Primary School
- The Avondale School Opens
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- Prof. C. B. Hughes Chosen to Lead
- S. N. Haskell's Deep Knowledge of God's Word
- A Close Look at Ellen White's Participation
- A Vision Concerning the School
- A Call for Sound Financial Policies
- Confronted with the Problem of Association
- Factors that Encouraged Ellen White
- The Confession of A. G. Daniells
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- “Our School Must Be a Model School”
- The Conference Session in Stanmore
- Medical Missionary Work
- The Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, And the Use of Meat
- The Health-Food Business
- “Try Them”
- The Mollifying Influence of a Vision
- The Earlier Interview at Sunnyside
- Several Locations for the Food Factory Considered
- W. C. White Review of the Experience
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- Initial Writing on the Life of Christ
- Why Did She Copy from Others?
- Work in Australia on the Life of Christ
- Ellen White Writes on Christ's Life and Ministry
- Ellen White in New Zealand and Marian Davis in Melbourne
- The Sequence of Events
- Titles for the Chapters
- Extra-Scriptural Information
- The Proposal of Two Volumes
- Who Will Publish It?
- Decision on the Title
- Illustrations and Finance
- The Last Touches
- Checking Proofs and Illustrations
- A Book That Should be in Every Home
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The Work at the School
Progress in erecting the school buildings was steady. Professor Rousseau, who had been connected with the school enterprise from the start of the Bible school in Melbourne, had returned to the United States. The chairman of the school board, W. C. White, who also served as the president of the Australasian Union Conference, had been sent to America to attend the General Conference session and to take care of Australian interests, among them, the production of health foods. Being on the grounds, Ellen White was expected to lead out. She felt quite alone in having to make decisions concerning the school enterprise. There was one ordained minister of experience in the whole colony of New South Wales, whose time was much taken up with the general interests of an advancing work. Metcalfe Hare, the business manager of the school, leaned heavily on Ellen White, and when important decisions had to be made she was looked upon as the senior officer in charge—a role she did not choose or covet. But those about her recognized that she had insights and experience others did not have. Writing on February 4 to W. C. White in the States, she bemoaned:4BIO 288.6
I am left here to carry as heavy a load as I have ever carried in my life, to deal with men who think that they know everything when they know nothing as they ought to know it.—Letter 186, 1897.4BIO 289.1
Of course she continued with her writing, mostly correspondence, but at times she could get in a little on the life of Christ. She neglected her diary for weeks. “I could not possibly spend time,” she wrote in mid-January, “to write in my book.”—Letter 166, 1897. She filled speaking appointments on the Sabbath, standing in the pulpit the first five Sabbaths of the new year (Letter 186, 1897).4BIO 289.2
Willie's family, May, the two older girls, and the twins, on New Year's Day moved from the convent back to Sunnyside, into the washhouse where the twins had been born. As the weather grew colder, they were given the living room at the Sunnyside home. Letters tell of planning some kind of a cottage for the W. C. White family.4BIO 289.3
Medical work was just getting a start in Australia. A. W. Semmens, a graduate nurse from Battle Creek, opened the Health Home in Sydney. A large residence was rented, and Ellen White notes, “As he had no money, I furnished him with £25 to make a beginning.”—Letter 70, 1897. To this was soon added £10 more. The Bible Echo, on January 18, 1897, carried an advertisement for the newly developed Battle Creek health foods. The public was informed that “some of these valuable foods are already being shipped to this country, and that a proposition is on foot for their manufacture here at an early date.” This was a significant project that was to take on large proportions in Australia.4BIO 289.4