Help for the Sanitariums for the Colored People by W. A. RUBLE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 20, 1909

Help for the Sanitariums for the Colored People

By W. A. RUBLE

ALREADY the appeal for means to establish sanitarium work for the colored people is meeting with response. In the past few days a number of sanitariums have taken up the work of raising subscriptions for this needy cause.

St. Helena has promised to do its share; Loma Linda has undertaken to furnish a room, and is filling out a subscription list. Portland, Ore., has agreed to furnish one room. Other sanitariums have signified a willingness to aid.

All the churches in the District of Columbia Conference recently took up the matter of a gift to this work. Takoma Park gave $115. Memorial church gave $110. The Eighth Street church agreed to furnish one room. The Foreign Mission Seminary church gave $18.02.

An appeal was made to the young people to contribute; and the society at Takoma Park appropriated $25 to the Atlanta Sanitarium (colored), and $25 for the Huntsville school.

The young people of the State of Maine have agreed to furnish one room.

Dr. W. B. Monsen, of Luray, S. C., has set the pace for physicians by agreeing to furnish one room at $75, to be known as “The South Carolina Room.”

This is merely a beginning, and should suggest to other physicians, sanitariums, helpers, young people's societies, and all who are interested in the work for the colored, to send in liberal amounts for this needy cause. W. A. RUBLE.