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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 10.

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Editorial Correspondence

By F. M. W.

PORTLAND, OREGON, Feb. 12, 1912.
Passing through Denver, we were pleased to greet Brother J. G. Weller, the manager of the Colorado Sanitarium Food Store. This work is more than meeting expenses from year to year, and in addition serves as a valuable advertising agency for the institution. Here also we met Dr. H. C. Menkel, who with his wife, and on account of her health, returned from India one year ago. Sister Menkel is much improved, and both are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to return to the great Indian mission field, where their labors were greatly appreciated, and where they will again be warmly welcomed.
En route to Walla Walla, Wash., we had the pleasure of journeying for a little distance with Dr. Horace Parker, who boarded the train at Nunn, Colo., and went with us as far as Cheyenne, Wyo. Dr. Parker and his wife, Dr. Alice Conway-Parker, are engaged in medical work at Nunn, where they have succeeded in building up a good practise. They feel a deep interest in the cause of truth, and are seeking as best they may to advance its interests.
We were gratified to find such a large number of students at the Walla Walla College. Including the normal department, over three hundred are in attendance. Many of these are excellent young men and women who are seeking a preparation as gospel workers and burden-bearers in connection with this great movement. This school is the educational center for the great Northwest, and from it should go forth many devoted workers into the unevangelized regions of the home land as well as into the great regions beyond the seas. An earnest foreign mission band is serving to kindle the flame of missionary zeal in the hearts of the older students.
Prof. E. C. Kellogg is the president of the college. This is his first year, but already he has endeared himself to his associates and his students. With him are connected Elder O. A. Johnson as Bible instructor, and other earnest, faithful teachers, who sense their responsibility, and are endeavoring by God's grace to act well their part in the preparation of workers for the whitening harvest. Miss Bertha Allen, with four other teachers, is conducting an excellent normal department. Prof. John Isaac is in charge of the German department, in which are enrolled over thirty students. Brother C. M. Christensen has returned to the school to direct in its financial management.
At the time of our visit the school was without a preceptor, but the board was seeking to arrange for one. This, we believe, is a necessity. In every school competent, consecrated men and women should be charged with the responsibility of maintaining, kindly but firmly, a high standard of discipline and deportment. Only the young men and women in our training-schools who are willing to submit themselves to proper restrictions and regulations, and thus acquire under discipline a well-balanced experience, are well-prepared for their life-work, or to go out as teachers to their fellow men. He who has not learned to obey, even under unpleasant conditions, is not fitted to command.
The little sanitarium at College Place, near the college building, is enjoying a fair patronage, and is doing a good work. Dr. I. A. Dunlap is in charge of the medical work, with Brother W. E. McCully as business manager. Recently the nurses' training-school was discontinued, the institution operating with salaried nurses. The spirit of consecration on the part of the workers was recognized by the guests. Our stay while in College Place was made very pleasant by the kindly consideration of the sanitarium family. We had the pleasure of meeting Elder C. W. Flaiz, the president of the North Pacific Conference, also Elder H. W. Decker, whose faith has not wearied these many years in waiting for the consummation of Israel's hope. We were pleased to find that Elder W. A. Westworth was so far recovered from his terrible accident by burning some months ago as to be able to resume in some measure public labor.
The believers in College Place, the same as our brethren at some other centers, are in great need of a church building. Steps have already been taken to arrange for the raising of means for this work. We were privileged to speak five times in all while at College Place, and rejoiced in the spirit which makes of one the believers in this message, even though they meet as strangers here.
Portland is one of the great ocean doorways of the Northwest. The city has made great gains in population during the last decade, increasing from 90,426 to 207,214, or over 129%. In this important center, our work has gained a splendid foothold. Seven organized churches, representing four different nationalities, and with one exception each congregation having its own church edifice, have been established within the city limits.
Here also is located the Portland Sanitarium, which in no small measure has contributed to the upbuilding of the work. The institution is practically full, our assignment being the last vacant room, with the exception of several that were undergoing repairs. About fifty guests were registered.
A fine class of young women are training for nurses. Brother C. M. Everest, the business manager, has made good headway the last two years in the installation of new equipment which materially lessens the cost of light and heat, and in making other valuable improvements and necessary repairs. Miss Ruby Wright is rendering excellent service as matron of the institution.
The medical faculty consists of Dr. W. B. Holden, medical superintendent, who has also an office in the business center of the city, and whose successful work as a surgeon calls him as well to neighboring towns and cities. The work of house physician falls to the efficient care of Dr. M. N. Canfield.
The city physicians in Portland manifest a very kindly attitude toward the sanitarium, and frequently send to it patients, or bring to it their surgical cases for nursing.
It has been my pleasure to meet here Mrs. Worthie Harris Holden (wife of Dr. W. B. Holden), whose poetical contributions to our columns for a number of years have been so truly appreciated by our readers. We have met also Dr. John J. Reith and wife, who are planning to connect in the near future with the Walla Walla Sanitarium. While at this institution I had the pleasure of speaking once to the nurses of the sanitarium.
A wonderful future lies before this northwest corner of the United States. Great undeveloped resources are finding fast development. Every year witnesses a stronger tide of tourist travel.
Step by step with the growth of population our work should advance. This we are confident it will do, if the good brethren of the North Pacific Conference remain alive, as they now appear to be, to the opportunities afforded them.
F. M. W.