p. 18 | The Kansas Sanitarium by James C. Atkinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 25, 1915

The Kansas Sanitarium

By James C. Atkinson

I RECENTLY spent several weeks at the Kansas Sanitarium, and since that experience feel more certain than ever before that our medical institutions are filling an important place in this closing work.

Under Dr. L. A. Sutter, as medical superintendent; Brother R. C. Carson, as business manager; and Miss Clara D. Larson, as matron and head nurse, the sanitarium is well conducted, and enjoys an excellent patronage. The young people in training are of an excellent class, consecrated, and anxious to benefit spiritually as well as physically those who come to them for help. The Lord has especially blessed in the many difficult and dangerous surgical operations that have been performed, and it is a marvel how soon patients are able to be up and return to their homes, praising the Lord.

I have sometimes thought that our own people fail to appreciate fully the importance of our sanitariums. Frequently they employ worldly physicians, and if the case proves to be a serious one, often pay much more than the price of several weeks' treatment in one of our institutions, in which they may have the daily care of Christian physicians and nurses.

Since my return home I have come in touch with a friend who went to an outside institution in Kansas City for a surgical operation, about the time I went to the sanitarium at Wichita for that purpose. He told me that his expenses were over $400, whereas mine were less than $200. I praise the Lord for the medical missionary work. Let us rally to its support as never before.

JAMES C. ATKINSON.