A Great Fact Accomplished.
By Editor
The Western Health Reform Institute was opened for the reception of patients and boarders, at the time appointed, Sept. 5. The occasion was one of encouragement and good cheer. All felt that the Institution was and would be a complete success. The prospect for patients is all that could be asked. The greatest fear that the managers now have, is, that they will not be able to accommodate all who may wish to come. Let those who contemplate coming by all means first correspond in relation to the matter. All the conveniences contemplated are not yet completed, but the work will be carried forward, and the capacities of the Institution enlarged as fast as possible. We have only to look back to our Conference in May last, less than four short months ago, for the time when this matter first begun to take practical shape among our people. Now we behold an elegant site secured, buildings ready for operation, a competent corps of assistants on the ground, two numbers of a Health Journal already issued, with a subscription list that has doubled within the past few weeks, a sum bordering on eleven thousand dollars already subscribed for stock in the enterprise, and the Institute opened and operations actually commenced. In no enterprise ever undertaken by this people, has the hand of the Lord been more evidently manifested than in this thing. And we here enter our record of gratitude for the great fact accomplished, the great step taken in the right direction. But in this, as in other branches of this work, we may expect that the enemy will try with all his power to bring reverses, create hindrances, and block the wheels to its onward progress. But the Lord, whose the work is, is mightier than all his foes. And if we all so live that he can work with us, he will carry it through. We must consecrate ourselves to him as never before. In a few years at most, our work will be finished. The overcomer will reach his reward. The victory, the crown, the sweet rest after the weary toil, will be given to the faithful.