Report of the Women's Committee by Mrs. S. N. Haskell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 2, 1916

Report of the Women's Committee

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

LIKE most new enterprises, the women's committee work has not sailed in unruffled seas. The success of the enterprise depended upon the coöperation of our brethren throughout the field. Some of the Union Conferences appointed secretaries early in the year; but for various reasons the work was late in getting started in other Unions, and it was not until the latter part of the summer that the work began to be fostered in the field at large.

The original plan that the auxiliary secretaries in the local conferences should select some one in each church to lead out in devising ways and means by which funds could be secured for the hospital, was carried out faithfully in the Pacific Union Conference. Elder E. E. Andross, the president of that Union, coöperated with us in every way, and as a result by September 1 more than $6,200 in cash and pledges was secured by the women. This sum does not include the large donations given by the more wealthy.

The women of the Western Canadian Union have also done systematic work, and report $1,344 in cash and pledges. The work in these two Unions has increased in interest from the first. Notwithstanding the fact that in a number of Union Conferences the work was not started until late in the summer, in many places a good organization has been formed during the latter part of the campaign, and through this means much literature has been distributed, and the attention of thousands has been called to the needs of the medical school.

During the campaign we have printed and distributed 37,000 of the leaflet, “Preparedness,” and 10,000 copies of the tract, “The Need of The Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital.” We have written more than a thousand letters in the interest of the hospital fund. We have personally labored in nine different conferences, and had the privilege of presenting the needs of the hospital fund before forty different churches and companies.

We regret very much that the present organization could not have been formed at the beginning of the year, so that the complete work for which the committee was appointed might have been accomplished.

The work of the women's committee has done much to present the needs of the medical work in thousands of homes, and has helped to increase an interest in this important branch of the Lord's work. Many of our sisters in advanced and middle life have been aroused by this work to new activity, and have been blessed by finding that there was something for them to do personally to advance the Lord's work.

We wish to thank the brethren for the privilege of having some part in helping to equip our medical school, which we earnestly pray may be used of God to educate an army of medical missionaries for the closing of the work.

MRS. S. N. HASKELL.