Commencement Exercises of the Nurses' Class at Keene, Tex.
By Clarence Santee
THE evening of Dec. 15, 1906, through mud and rain, about two hundred brethren, sisters, and friends gathered at the Keene church, to attend the exercises connected with the graduation as medical nurses of Misses Lulu Darnell and Ethel Findley. These sisters have proved faithful under especially trying circumstances, and we were pleased to see the tokens of faithful service and competence granted to them. The exercises were simple, but appropriate. The service was opened with singing, and a prayer was offered by Elder Andrew Nelson, of Oklahoma. An interesting program followed, participated in by Elder C. Sorensen, Bible teacher in the Keene Academy and the Sanitarium, and Elder Clarence Santee. Dr. D. C. Ross, under whose instruction the course had been completed, presented the diplomas, after a short talk upon the duties and responsibilities of a nurse, and a charge to faithfulness. A selection, calling to trust in God, was sung, and God's blessing was invoked upon all, and especially upon those accepting the sacred duties of a missionary nurse for God. We believe that these gatherings, where the glory of God is in view, can be made of lasting benefit.