p. 500 | At the Kobe Sanitarium

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 22, 1913

At the Kobe Sanitarium

WE are favored with a brief report of the work of the Eisei-in Sanitarium, Kobe, Japan, an institution that has proved a great blessing to many, both physically and spiritually. It is in charge of Dr. Kiku Noma, who writes:—

“The Kobe sanitarium was established in November, 1903. There was no property belonging to the institution in the beginning. The enterprise was started by a few ladies as a missionary venture. A house was secured on a monthly rental basis, and, as the work grew and conditions permitted, ground was purchased on which a building was eventually erected, being completed in July, 1908.

“The sanitarium has two physicians, eleven nurses, and seventeen other employees. A branch office was opened last January in Osaka, the second largest city in Japan and quite a commercial center. The city has a population of about one million three hundred thousand, while Kobe has a population of four hundred thousand. A government railroad connects the two cities, and there is also an electric line connecting them. This gives us ready access to an immense field.

“It is somewhat difficult to give the exact figures of our work, but I give the following report:—

YEAR	PATIENTS TREATED	RECEIPTS	CHARITY WORK	CONVERTED
1903	...	$......	$......	......
1904	...	......	......	10
1905	...	3,187.52	......	6
1906	...	3,330.70	......	5
1907	307	4,421.73	......	4
1908	345	4,852.53	......	1
1910	339	6,664.08	700.00	7
1911	421	9,285.10	750.00	4
1912	458	7,636.31	720.00	7

We also have a few words from Mrs.

T. Kuniya, wife of one of the evangelists, who gives this experience:—

“While I was at the Eisei-in, a young woman came for treatments. I was impressed to speak to her of the ‘blessed hope,’ and to pray earnestly that the Spirit would lead her to attend the Bible class that I was holding with the students. She did so, and found peace with God. Before her baptism she bore this testimony: ‘I was fully determined to end my life to get free from the agony of soul that I had suffered. Just then a friend handed me a copy of the Owɑri No Fukuin (our Japanese paper), in which I saw an advertisement of the Eisei-in, and came to take treatment. I am grateful for the wonderful love of God and for his providence. Now not only is my health restored, but my soul as well. I am now ready to tell this “blessed hope” to others.’”