The Colorado Sanitarium by Francis M. Wilcox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1908

The Colorado Sanitarium

By Francis M. Wilcox

DURING the last year the Lord has abundantly blessed the work in this institution. In many spiritual and material ways his guiding hand has been manifested. Our receipts from patients have been larger by from three hundred to five hundred dollars a month the past season than ever before in the history of the institution. Excellent success has attended the medical work, and there have been many cases of recovery, which seemed, from a human viewpoint, most improbable. This has come, not in consequence of the great human skill of the physicians and nurses, but from the conscientious and faithful employment of the principles which God has given us.

In connection with our medical work God has given us mighty principles of truth, which, when applied in faith, will prove as remarkable factors in physical transformation as do the great principles of truth in connection with the third angel’s message in spiritual transformation. Christ is the Great Physician of the body as well as the Saviour of the soul.

The prospects for our work seem brighter than ever before since the institution was founded. With an excellent corps of trained nurses, and with the strongest medical faculty which the institution has ever possessed, we believe that the future has in store for us rich spiritual and material blessings, if we walk humbly before the Lord.

Recently, upon the resignation of our business manager, H. T. LaBonte, Elder Meade MacGuire was asked to connect with the work of the institution as secretary and treasurer and business manager. It was seriously considered for some time as to whether Brother MacGuire should be asked to give up his important work for the young people in connection with the Central Union Conference, and associate with the work in Boulder. It was thought, however, in careful consultation with the Colorado Conference Committee and with leading members of the General Conference Committee, that the best help possible should be secured for the work in Boulder, even if it were necessary to make sacrifices in other departments of work to secure the needed aid.

In communications from Sister E. G. White during the last two years, it has been very definitely stated that additional help should be supplied for the work in Boulder, and that the sanitarium, especially, should be placed on vantage-ground in order to accomplish the work the Lord designed it to do. It was believed that some one having a general and broad experience, who can unite business ability with other necessary qualifications, was needed as manager of the sanitarium.

Accordingly, in view of these considerations, it was decided to ask Brother MacGuire to connect with the work here, where his experience in laboring for young people will find fully as large an opportunity for exercise as in his former position.

The large church in Boulder, now numbering over three hundred, is sensing as never before its responsibilities and accountability for the light and blessings it has received. The work in Colorado generally is taking on new life and vitality, and we believe that our people as never before are seeking to know the will of the Master and their duty in relation to the work of God in the earth.

FRANCIS M. WILCOX.