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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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Sara McEnterfer—Community Nurse
It was not too long after Sara McEnterfer, a graduate nurse from Battle Creek, rejoined Ellen White's staff until she was involved in caring for the sick and injured in the community for some miles around. The nearest physician was twenty miles distant, and charged £5 to make a visit.4BIO 327.3
On Friday, July 23, a young man named Cloutsen came running to the house all the way from Dora Creek to report that a young man there was very sick with inflammation of the lungs and would die unless he had help.4BIO 327.4
The family is large and they are not poor, but most bitterly opposed to Seventh-day Adventists. The father of this large family will not allow one of our faith to step foot on or across his premises. We thought this might be an opportunity to break down this prejudice. Sara and May White went as soon as they could gather up articles to take with them to help the sick man. They found him with his eyes glazed; he was unconscious.... The room was full of his parents and brothers and sisters. There were no windows open—not a crack of air for ventilating the room.
Sara took charge at once, told them that they were killing him, that the lungs must have food—good, pure air. All must leave the room but those required to wait on him. She examined the house and told them he must be moved into the sitting room. First, she directed that his bowels, which were burning hot, be relieved by an enema, administered by two brethren who were present. Then a cot was brought in, and Sara made it up. Then, all unconscious of everything, he was moved by four men onto the cot, and plenty of air was given him. He fell asleep for the first time since Monday. After remaining until the afternoon was nearly gone, Sara and May returned.—Manuscript 174, 1897.4BIO 328.1
But the good work started by Sara was cut short. A physician who had been sent for before Sara was called, and who had waited on the young man earlier in the week, came belatedly on Friday evening. He was surprised to find the young man had made a change for the better and was rational. When told what treatment the patient had received, the doctor said it could not be bettered, declared the young man free from fever, and left word to give him a drop or two of liquor if he had sinking spells. When William Cloutsen came in a bit later, he found a blazing fire in the room and the windows all closed. He put the fire out, threw the wood out of doors, opened the windows, and bathed the patient's face and head.4BIO 328.2
“You are a good fellow, Billy Cloutsen,” the patient said. “You know what to do for a fellow. I feel better.”—Ibid.4BIO 328.3
The father and brothers were drinking rum when Cloutsen left, and proposed giving some to the sick man.4BIO 328.4
“Don't give him a drop. If you do, it will kill him,” Cloutsen admonished.4BIO 328.5
They said they would not give him any. His brothers told Cloutsen that he was the only member of the family who would not drink—“He would never touch it.” But after Cloutsen left, they thought he was weakening and gave him liquor. When Cloutsen called in the morning, he found the young man was dead. “You gave him liquor,” he charged.4BIO 328.6
The family admitted they had, and in doing so were responsible for the death of the son.4BIO 329.1