p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 50. (12/12/1912)

Earlier text: Church Missionary Meetings

Drs. Parker Join Loma Linda Staff

WE learn from a recent number of Echoes From the Field, our Colorado Conference paper, that Dr. H. P. Parker, and his wife, Dr. Alice Parker, of that conference, have accepted a call from the Loma Linda Sanitarium to connect with the medical staff of that institution.

A Call for Loma Linda’s Hospital

By Editor

ALL will be interested in the article from Elder G. A. Irwin regarding the work of the medical college at Loma Linda, on page 16. The call which Elder Irwin makes for their new hospital is a worthy one. We earnestly hope that it will awaken a response in the hearts of some of our brethren of means.

Perolas Esparsas

A NEW book comes to us from Brazil, printed in the Portuguese language. It is entitled “Perolas Esparsas,” being a collection of readings and true stories for the home, teaching religious and temperance principles. It is used by the canvassers as a pioneer book in that Catholic field. It is issued by our Brazilian house, the Sociedade Internacional de Tratados no Brazil, Sao Bernardo, state of Sao Paulo.

Enlarged Edition of Recreation Tract

A LETTER from Brother H. H. Hall, manager of the book department of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, states that they are issuing an enlarged edition of Mrs. E. G. White’s recent tract on “Recreation.” The revised edition of this pamphlet will contain fifty-three pages, and the price will hereafter be ten cents a copy. This will be found an especially valuable publication to those who desire a knowledge of the principles governing the important question of recreation. It should be read by our educators and parents, and by all our young people. Order from the publishing houses.

The Value of Our Periodical

By Editor

WE are sure that our readers appreciate the efforts of our contributors in supplying the columns of the REVIEW from week to week with such excellent matter. In our General Articles may always be found rich, spiritual food. Our Home department contains weekly many excellent, practical suggestions. And the hearts of our readers must thrill many times as they read the stirring reports of the progress of this movement which come from nearly every quarter of the earth. By no means the least valuable of our contributions are the inspiring songs of our poet writers. Let us not be forgetful hearers of the word, but put into practise the excellent principles we study from week to week.

Greetings from British New Guinea

Too late for greeting the brethren before the week of prayer comes the following message from Brother S. W. Carr, of Australia, in charge of the mission in British New Guinea: “Greetings from this outpost of heathenism. God has given us the victory, as for the first time we now have some students that who have decided to work three hours daily for the mission on account of school privileges. The rest of the day, outside of school hours, they will work in their own gardens. Previously we have always had to pay regular wages. We rejoice that these three lads are beginning to appreciate school and industrial training. It was good also to see ten boys from four days’ journey inland come down by themselves to work here for a year. Labor on the plantations near by is so scarce that recruiters of labor receive four pounds for each boy. We praise the Lord as we see his Spirit working on heathen hearts. Pray for New Guinea.”

Dietetics in Our Sanitariums

The question of dietetics is one of the most perplexing subjects with which our sanitariums have to deal. The guests of these institutions for the most part are made up of men and women who have brought upon themselves sickness through disregard of nature’s laws, particularly by excesses in eating and drinking. Many of these desire to get well, but are quite unwilling to pay the price in the way of self-denial. They still demand tea, coffee, flesh foods, condiments, etc. Our sanitariums, however, are the exponents of principles of reform in the matter of healthful living. It is for them to erect and maintain a higher standard than the medical institutions of the world. At a meeting of the medical faculty of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium held recently, an interesting discussion on the subject of dietetics was engaged in by the physicians and nurses. It was felt by all present that the Sanitarium should maintain the position it has ever taken in excluding tea, coffee, and flesh foods from the dietary of the institution, and that there should be maintained before the guests a high standard of reform with reference to the general question of dietetics. This we believe is the only consistent position that any of our sanitariums can take. If our institutions do not maintain a higher standard than is upheld in similar institutions of the world, both in the way of Christian ethics and from a scientific standpoint, then our institutions have no excuse for existence. God has called us to be light-bearers. He has called us to the position of reformers. We should be consistent in the positions we take, and resolute in the pursuit of the purpose in which we are engaged. Our sanitariums and our medical workers, above any other institutions or workers engaged in this movement, should be true to the principles of health and temperance.

Conventions

CONVENTIONS in the interests of the publishing work have recently been held at South Bend, Ind., and South Lancaster, Mass. At the first meeting, Elder N. Z. Town and I. A. Ford attended from Washington. All the presidents in the Lake Union Conference, together with tract society secretaries and field agents, were present. The corresponding conference workers attended the meeting at South Lancaster, and Elder A. G. Daniells and I. A. Ford represented the general work. An excellent spirit of cooperation is reported. It is believed that rich blessing will result in these two union conferences.

New England Work and Week of Prayer

For the last three weeks Elder A. G. Daniells, accompanied by Sister Daniells, has been visiting the several centers of our work in New England, in the interests of the message. Elder W. A. Spicer is dividing his time during the week of prayer between the Emmanuel Missionary and Mount Vernon Colleges. Elder W. W. Prescott is at Union College for the week.

Steiner Family to Abyssinian Mission

BROTHER H. STEINER, wife, and one child, left Naples October 27 for their new field of labor in Africa. Brother Steiner, who was formerly a laborer in the West German Union Conference, has been invited to take the superintendency of the Abyssinian Mission. They will settle in Asmara.