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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 9, 1908

Loma Linda (Cal.) College of Evangelists

By GEO. K. ABBOTT, M. D.

THE exercises of the second annual commencement of the College of Evangelists were held June 9. A class of seven was graduated from the three years’ course for evangelistic nurses. Between two and three hundred persons filled the assembly hall to witness the exercises. Elder G. W. Reaser, president of the Southern California Conference, gave the principal address, dwelling especially upon the combined work of the missionary nurse, and the co-operation of the human with the divine in ministry to both the physical and the spiritual. The address left strongly impressed upon the minds of the hearers the fact that our educational work, in whatever line, should be a training for missionary and evangelistic labor in giving the last gospel message to the world.

JUNE 10 Miss Ellen Cornish, a member of the graduating class, was united in marriage with Mr. Walter Foster, a graduate of the Fernando Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have accepted a call from the Mission Board for Japan. They will visit relatives in Dakota, and sail for their new field of labor from Seattle about July 21. The college faculty and students, and the sanitarium family, presented them with a very practical wedding gift in the form of supplies with which to carry on their medical work in Japan.

The college faculty has been much strengthened for the coming year by the addition of Elder R. S. Owen as Bible teacher. Elder Luther Warren will continue in charge of the field work. This personal and house-to-house work in giving Bible readings, health and temperance talks, and the holding of cooking schools, has been under the immediate supervision of some of the senior students, as a part of the work of the Young People’s Society. Each afternoon a company of from two to six or more students go out into the towns and cities near by to carry on this work, and canvass for “Ministry of Healing” or “Christ’s Object Lessons.” With the counsel and advice of the faculty, and the earnest endeavors of the students, this work has grown substantially. The spiritual life and missionary spirit of the students were never better than now. This atmosphere of consecration and helpfulness has so pervaded the entire sanitarium life that all who come feel that it is indeed good to be here.

The college announcement for 1908-09 will soon be ready for distribution. Those who desire a training in medical missionary and evangelistic lines should learn of the educational plan of the Loma Linda College.

Calendars and information may be had by addressing the undersigned at Loma Linda, via Redlands, Cal.

GEO. K. ABBOTT, M. D.