North Pacific Union Conference by G. B. Thompson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1910

North Pacific Union Conference

By G. B. Thompson

MAY 9 I left Washington to attend meetings in the North Pacific Union Conference. My first stop was at Walla Walla College (Wash.), where I had the privilege of giving the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class on Sabbath, May 14.

This was my first visit to this school, and I appreciated the opportunity of meeting the faculty and students during the closing days of another successful year of work. I found a large number of strong, earnest students attending the college, most of whom are preparing for a place of usefulness in the message. An excellent spirit pervaded the institution. Including the normal departments, about three hundred sixty students have been enrolled during the year. The graduating class numbered twenty-five, some of whom are already under appointment to foreign fields.

The year just closed is perhaps the best in the history of the college, and the outlook for the future is excellent. Some changes are made in the faculty, some of its members being called to responsibilities elsewhere. Prof. M. E. Cady, however, will remain as president for the coming year.

The location of the college is certainly a beautiful one. The weather was fine, nature was at her best, and it seemed to me an ideal place for parents to send their children to receive a training for the work of God. An artesian well filling a six-inch pipe with a flow of clear, pure water, has recently been opened on the campus; this furnishes water for the buildings and farm, and is surely a great blessing.

The sanitarium, which is on the college grounds and closely co-operates with the school, is enjoying a good patronage, every room being filled when I was there. Dr. W. H. Warner is the medical superintendent.

From Walla Walla I went to Boise, Idaho, where I spent a day at the hospitable home of Dr. J. E. Froom. He and his family are engaged in medical missionary work at that place. Treatment-rooms have been established in the best block in the city, and they have all the work they can do, and are exerting a strong influence in favor of the message. While here, I enjoyed a short visit with Harry Orchard, with whose history all are somewhat familiar. Though serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, he has found the peace of God, and is seeking to live a Christian life.

I am now at the Idaho camp-meeting, and an excellent meeting is in progress. From here I will go on to attend other meetings in this union conference.

This section of the country has great resources, and is filled with a thrifty, progressive class of citizens. The message is firmly established here, and its work is being carried forward in an enthusiastic way. G. B. THOMPSON.