p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 20. (4/20/1916)

The Los Angeles Hospital

By W. T. Knox

The readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD have been made acquainted with the plan adopted at the autumn council of the North American Division Conference at Loma Linda, Cal., to provide our medical college with a hospital and dispensary, to be erected in Los Angeles, and thus place our medical school where it will be better able to meet the requirements of a first-class medical college.

It is estimated that $61,000 would be required to provide these needed facilities. A delegation of our sisters present at Loma Linda at the time of the council asked the privilege of raising this amount. This was granted, and later a committee was appointed to carry on this work. The committee was organized by electing Mrs. S. N. Haskell chairman, Mrs. George A. Irwin, of Loma Linda, secretary, and W. T. Knox treasurer. Each union conference was requested to appoint an assistant or field secretary in its territory.

The information received from time to time concerning the solicitation of funds has been quite encouraging, and it is estimated that pledges to the amount of from $30,000 to $35,000 have already been secured. The college is anxious to begin work upon the hospital buildings as soon as possible, but cannot do so until the money is in hand. It is therefore very desirable that those pledging should make as early payments as possible. All such payments should be made to the treasurer, W. T. Knox, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., either direct or through the local conferences, with the designation accompanying the remittances, “Los Angeles Hospital.”

To date there has been received by the treasurer from individuals in the different union conferences, as follows:— Atlantic Union Conference .. $100.00 Northern Union Conference .. 45.84 Pacific Union Conference .. 95.50 Southern Union Conference .. 17.00 Total .................... $258.34 W. T. KNOX.

Paap Family Sent to South Africa

ANSWERING a call of the General Conference to connect with the English evangelistic work in South Africa, Pastor and Mrs. C. A. Paap, of Australia, left Sydney on the P. & O. steamer “Mooltan,” April 12, for Cape Town. Brother and Sister Paap will receive a warm welcome from the brethren and sisters in South Africa.

Progress in Argentina

Pastor R. T. Baer reports the baptism of 266 believers in Argentina during the past two years, and that the tithe of the conference last year was double that of the preceding year. The membership is now 1,084. Argentina receives no appropriation from mission funds, and is carrying a good list of workers. This is very encouraging, and is another illustration of the vitality of God's truth when once it obtains a foothold in any land.

Medical and Missionary Work Among Indians

BROTHER C. V. ACHENBACH, of the Lake Titicaca Indian Mission, reports a little experience he and Brother Howell had among the Indians of a near-by tribe one day. Brother Achenbach says, “We arrived at ten o’clock. Soon the people began to come from all directions. Some were complaining of bad eyes, pain in stomach, bad teeth, headache, malaria, colds, and other troubles. We had thirty patients. When we had finished giving treatments, we were invited to dine with the chief. After dinner we called all the people together, and had a short religious service. I showed them the importance of the Word of God, and its power to change the human heart. All listened attentively. I told them Christ wants us to become acquainted with his Word, and that we had come among them to teach it to them. After the service we mounted our horses and returned home, realizing that the day had been well spent.”

A Solitary Religion Is a Misnomer

A SOLITARY religion is a misnomer. Jesus Christ was not a recluse. His disciples will not shut themselves away from their fellow men. The religion of Christ is not a religion of selfish centralization. It is generous and diffusive in its character. He who has come to know the Lord will desire to bring his fellows to the same blessed fountain from which he himself drank. He will desire to tell other souls in the bondage of sin what the Master has done for his soul. Exercise and activity are the natural expressions of life in the physical world, and the same is true as applied to the spiritual realm.

Missionary Volunteer Department Appointments

In harmony with a recent arrangement, Prof. C. L. Benson will labor as field secretary of the Missionary Volunteer Department west of the Mississippi River, and Elder Meade MacGuire as secretary east of the Mississippi. The address of Elder MacGuire after this date will be Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., care General Conference.

Stewarts Transferred to New Hebrides

From the Australasian Record we learn that Pastor and Mrs. A. G. Stewart, who have labored in the Fijian group for more than eight years, are connecting with the work in the New Hebrides. They reached Sydney March 7, on their way to their new field.

Encouraging Progress in the West Indies

BRETHREN W. A. Spicer and J. J. Ireland reached Washington last week from their visit to the West Indies. They give an encouraging report of the progress of the message in that island field.

The Bible and Sunday Observance

IN Our Sunday Visitor (Catholic) for March 26, 1916, there is given by the editor an imaginary conversation between a Catholic and a Protestant on the question of the Bible's being the sole rule of faith. The Catholic inquires, “Is the Bible the rule or guide of Protestants for observing Sunday?” To this the Protestant is made to answer, “No, I believe the Seventh-day Adventists are the only ones who follow the Bible in the matter of Sabbath observance.” If this answer included our Seventh-day Baptist brethren, it would be correct. Those who observe the first day as the Sabbath do not follow the Bible; they follow only the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. The same argument which leads Protestants to observe Sunday as the Sabbath, would lead them to observe every other holy day commanded by the Catholic Church.

The Voice of Conscience

It is gratifying to see instances, from time to time, which show that the voice of conscience is still heard by worldly men. Some years ago the United States government opened a conscience fund, in which was placed money returned by those who had taken it in some way from the government.

This fund now aggregates nearly $490,000. The largest contribution to it was recently received in the form of a check for $30,000, which came in a plain white envelope, without signature. The writer stated that this sum made a total of $80,000 which he had sent the government at different times, and which, as in the case of Zaccheus, was four times the amount he had stolen years ago. He closed with this pathetic comment: “May every thief understand the awfulness of the sin of stealing, is the sincere wish of the penitent. Let no man claim this money under any pretext.”

We doubt not that if all who have stolen from the government would return that which they have taken, the total would be very greatly increased. And if every one who has stolen from God, or appropriated to his own use money which rightfully belonged to him, were to make restitution, thousands of dollars would come into the treasury. This spirit of restitution, we believe, will take possession of some of God’s people before this work closes. Some who have for long years withheld their tithe, and who have given a mere pittance compared with what they should have given, will recognize their wrong, and their quickened consciences will lead them to restore that which they have withheld. We should seek to live constantly in all good conscience before God and our fellows. In this experience is peace and salvation.

GIRLS PREPARING DINNER AT SOLUSI MISSION
In bad weather they work within this building. — GIRLS PREPARING DINNER AT SOLUSI MISSION In bad weather they work within this building.