The Southern Sanitarium
By R. M. KILGORE
THIS institution, located at Graysville, Tenn., is now taking on a new form and new proportions. For some time the work has been carried on in cottages, with treatment rooms in the basement of the training-school building. This arrangement made the work very inconvenient and burdensome. During the past winter, Brother A. Van Tassel, of Michigan, visited Graysville. He became deeply interested in the school and sanitarium, and generously purchased and donated twenty-five acres, on the face of Lone Mountain, about ten minutes' walk from the school building. On this tract of land, one hundred and thirty feet above the foot of the mountain, is a spring of pure, soft water, which is now, during this drought, sending forth about four hundred barrels of water daily. A still larger spring, with twenty acres of land at the foot of the mountain, has recently been purchased. So we now have forty-five acres in one body, on which are flowing these two unfailing springs of pure, mountain water. Since negotiations for these tracts of land began, and while they were pending, the following Testimonies came to hand. These removed every doubt as to the wisdom of locating the school at Graysville, and as to what the Lord would have us do now concerning the establishment of a sanitarium in connection with it:— “In the night season I was taken from place to place, from city to city, in the Southern field. I saw the great work to be done,—the work that ought to have been done years ago. We seemed to be looking at many places. Our first interest was for the places where the work has already been established, and for the places where the way was opened for a beginning to be made. I saw the places in the South where institutions have been established for the advancement of the Lord's work. One of the places that I saw was Graysville, and another was Huntsville. The Lord led in the establishment of these schools. Their work is not to be discouraged, but encouraged. They are to receive encouragement and support. Both of these places have advantages of their own. There has been delay in pushing forward the work in these places. Let us delay no longer. At these schools students may gain an education that, with the blessing of God, will prepare them to win souls to Christ. If they unite with the Saviour, they will grow in spirituality, and will be prepared to present the truth to others.” “In every place where schools are established, we are to study what industries can be started that will give the students employment. Small sanitariums should be established in connection with our larger schools, that the students may have an opportunity to gain a knowledge of medical missionary work. This line of work is to be brought into our schools as part of the regular instruction. Such sanitariums should be established in connection with the schools at Graysville and Huntsville. The Lord will give those in charge of the different lines of the work wisdom to use their talents for the best advancement of the work.” “Believers who are now living in the cities will have to move to the country, that they may save their children from ruin. Attention must be given to the establishment of industries in which these families can find employment. Those who have charge of the school work at Graysville and Huntsville should see what can be done by these institutions to establish such industries, so that our people desiring to leave the cities, can obtain modest homes without a large outlay of means, and can also find employment. In both Graysville and Huntsville there are favorable and encouraging features for the development of this plan. Study what these features are.” The brethren and sisters of Graysville have subscribed about three thousand dollars, and we invite any others who are thus minded to aid in this worthy enterprise. Work is now in progress in excavating the basement and preparing the stone. Plans have been laid for a modest, plain, two-story, wooden building, thirty-two by sixty-four feet. Our motto is, “Pay as we go; when the money fails, the building stops.”