The rare, clear air of Colorado is a tonic to the body. Not less a tonic, but to the soul, I found the earnest spiritual atmosphere about the Boulder Sanitarium. They have their trials, of course, but in the week I spent recently in Boulder, I found in the institution an earnest band of young people, committed to this third angel’s message, and desiring to serve this cause wherever their service will count most in building up the special work for this time.
FACULTY AND GRADUATING CLASS OF 1905, OF THE BOULDER SANITARIUM TRAINING-SCHOOL
The graduating exercises for the class of 1905 were held in the Boulder church. Elders F. M. Wilcox, J. L. Shaw, Watson Zeigler, and H. M. J. Richards, and myself were present as representatives of the ministerial work, to welcome the new nurses as new recruits in the missionary army, while Drs. Lindsay, Herr, and Knox represented the medical staff of the sanitarium that is sending these young workers forth into the field of service.
The graduating class was composed of twelve young men and women, sturdy and hearty, and consecrated to the work of the Lord. I believe some of them will be found in other lands one of these days, and several have in mind pioneer service on the home frontiers. The graduates were Brethren Egner, Herboltzheimer, and June, and Sisters Harriman, Herboltzheimer, McDonald, Daisy McPhee, Florence McPhee, Nesmith, Phillips, Reid, and Talbott.
In behalf of the Colorado Conference Elder Zeigler presented all graduate nurses and physicians of the sanitarium with missionary credentials, in recognition of the fact that medical and evangelistic workers are engaged in the one common cause of pressing the triumphs of the third angel’s message, which this denomination has been raised up to carry to the world.
It is plainly to be seen that the Lord has blessed the management of this institution as it has sought to come wholly into line with all the instruction that has come to us regarding denominational issues and enterprises. After all, the strength of every feature of our work is not in methods, as such, but in the power of the living God, which must vitalize and energize every facility or enterprise that operates for the building up of this advent movement.
I appreciated the privilege of associating with the workers in Boulder. Their eyes are upon the fields. The family has set out to raise several hundred dollars this year for the support of a worker in India. Best of all, however, was the settled purpose of this family of young people to give their own lives to this service that is to bring the coming of the Lord. The Boulder Sanitarium has an ideal location. It is just the right size for a training center, it seems to me. May God’s continued blessing make it and keep it all that it should be in these days when an army of workers must be trained and sent forward to meet the final crisis in the great controversy.
