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Called By God
Mrs. White spent another period in the United States occupied with writing,
preaching at conferences, and advising church councils. Then church leadership
requested her to go overseas again, this time to Australia, to guide development of the
educational work there. On November 12, 1891, Ellen White and her son W. C.
White, along with four of her writing and personal assistants, boarded ship to travel
halfway around the world. This move was occasioned by an action of the Mission
Board, which in turn resulted from an appeal by Elder S. N. Haskell at the 1891
General Conference for a training school to be established in Australia to produce
Christian workers for that part of the world.
In Honolulu during a 19-hour stopover, Mrs. White addressed a large audience in the
Young Men’s Christian Association hall. She spent her sixty-fourth birthday, November
26, 1891, on shipboard en route to Samoa, expressing gratitude to God and re-dedicating
her life to His service. A week later she preached about the love of Jesus in the first
Seventh-day Adventist meeting house to be constructed south of the equator at Auckland,
New Zealand. A few days later she spoke twice to the church in Sydney, Australia.
At Melbourne Elder George Tenney, head of the publishing house, had moved out of
his new home and insisted that Mrs. White and her helpers stay there. She immediately
entered upon meetings to con