Identify Adventists When Booking Sanitariums

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

Identify Adventists When Booking Sanitariums

A LETTER from Brother E. J. Baker, business manager of the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, says that the work in that institution is progressing nicely. Their winter and spring patronage has been exceptionally good. At the present time there are only a few vacant rooms in the main building, and indications are for a large summer patronage. Brother Baker suggests that our brethren and sisters who write to our sanitariums for accommodations state in their letters that they are Seventh-day Adventists. These institutions frequently receive letters from our brethren containing nothing whatever to indicate that the writers are members of our church, and Brother Baker says, “Naturally when there is absolutely nothing to indicate that they belong to our church, we quote them the regular rate, and then they wonder why we do not give them the special rates we make to our people. Would it not be well to call attention to the fact that when one Adventist writes to another, or when one of our faith is writing to our institutions, the letter should contain something to indicate that the writer is a member of our church?” We believe that this is an excellent suggestion, and pass it on to our readers.