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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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Back Home at Sunnyside
Back at her Sunnyside home, quite worn from the journey to Queensland and the intensive labor there, Ellen White rested a few days and then turned to her literary work. Arrangements had been made for W. A. Colcord, who had been editing the Bible Echo and other journals published in Melbourne, to join her literary staff. He arrived at Cooranbong on Friday, November 25. She spoke that morning to the students in the summer school program. Sabbath, her seventy-first birthday, she spoke at the church and then early in the new week applied herself to the writing of letters.4BIO 369.7
The evening after the Sabbath, December 10, the first copies of The Desire of Ages reached Cooranbong and Ellen White's home (12 WCW, p. 356). On December 16 W. C. White hastened off a letter to C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press, telling of receiving copies of the book and extolling it:4BIO 370.1
We received copies of The Desire of Ages. I am very much pleased with its general appearance, and I think the Pacific Press has done a noble work in the illustrations, in the typographical work, in the press work, and in the binding, and as we see the book completed we are well pleased with its general plan and form.... I am pleased to be able to tell you that Mother is very well pleased with the book.— Ibid., 386.4BIO 370.2
Thursday, December 15, the American mail brought letters from G. A. Irwin, Mrs. Henry, and Dr. Kellogg.4BIO 370.3
The letter from Elder Irwin, president of the General Conference, was an invitation to attend the session of the General Conference to be held at South Lancaster in February, 1899. She responded:4BIO 370.4
You ask me to come to your conference in America. I was 71 years old the twenty-sixth of November. But this is not the reason I plead for not attending your conference. We have done what we could here. We have advanced slowly, planting the standard of truth in every place possible. But the dearth of means has been a serious hindrance. We have had to work at a great disadvantage for want of facilities, we have had to meet and breast many discouragements. We dare not show one particle of unbelief. We advance just as far as we can see, and then go far ahead of sight, moving by faith....4BIO 370.5
We strip ourselves of everything we can possibly spare in the line of money, for the openings are so many and the necessities so great. We have hired money until I have been compelled to say, I cannot donate more. My workers are the best, most faithful and devoted girls I ever expect to find. In order to advance the work I have donated the wages that should have been paid them. When the last call was made, my name was not on the list for the first time. The openings are abundant, but we are obliged to move very slowly. The work that ought to have been done has not been done, and I cannot feel at liberty to leave here now.... I have written these particulars that you may understand why I cannot attend your conference.... There is nothing for me to do but to remain here until the work is placed on a solid foundation.—Letter 125, 1898.4BIO 370.6