The Fayetteville (Ark.) Sanitarium

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1908

The Fayetteville (Ark.) Sanitarium

Dr. G. B. REPLOGLE, who spent several years as a medical missionary in South Africa, has completed the medical course since returning to America, and has recently opened a sanitarium at Fayetteville, Ark. The work of this new institution is favorably mentioned in the Fayetteville Evening News of June 4, in the following article:—

“Without any blare of the trumpet or crying of the heralds, the sanitarium on West Center Street went to work doing good. It has not made any noise since, but its good deeds are out of all proportion to its cost, or the appreciation of it.

“Some good women, having lovingly prepared themselves to minister to the necessities of human suffering, started it; surgeons, knowing the value of sane nursing, gave it some equipment, and the good work was begun. Many have been healed in it, and much suffering has been relieved. That was its primary object; but more has been done. Its founders and managers believe in Christ. They see the common brotherhood of human suffering, the touch of misery that makes the whole world kin, and they seek to relieve the deeper agony of spirit, that hypnotol—that awe-inspiring product of coal tar—reaches for, but can not touch. For this service there is no charge, and the hopeless outcast has gone from their ministrations, not only healed in body, but with a higher purpose in life, led by a nobler aim. It is an oasis in the great desert of present-day agnosticism. It is applied Christianity.

“We ask to be allowed to suggest that a great many cups of cold water might be given ‘in His name’ by helping the sanitarium, which has not asked us to say a word about it. We have taken the liberty of speaking of it because it is one of the few institutions in this age of gilded graft and gouging greed that even attempts to provide relief for misery on the great principle of the golden rule, which all commend, and no one gets in the habit of practising to such an extent as to interfere with his business.”