p. 20 | The Veterans’ Aid to the Hospital Fund

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1916

The Veterans’ Aid to the Hospital Fund

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

DURING the council at Loma Linda last autumn, at which the women offered to help lift some of the heavy burdens connected with the medical school, by raising $6,000 to build and equip the hospital in Los Angeles, one sister conceived a plan whereby some of the veterans could help raise the necessary funds. At that council there were a larger number of ministers past three-score and ten years of age than usually assemble at such meetings. Five of the number, Elders J. N. Loughborough, G. I. Butler, S. N. Haskell, H. W. Decker, and J. H. Rogers, were past eighty years of age. This sister got them together, and the photographs here represented were taken.

When the aged brethren heard that their photographs were to be sold for money, they at first objected; but when they learned that the money secured from the sale of the photographs would be used to build the Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital, they were glad to help in equipping the school for which Sister White carried such a heavy burden the last few years of her life.

It is the long years of self-sacrificing labor these aged workers have spent in the upbuilding of the cause we love, that endears them to us. Some of them are too feeble to do aggressive work in collecting funds for this enterprise, yet the sale of their photographs will give them a part in this work.

We trust that many will consider it a privilege to buy one or both of these photographs, thus helping to secure the funds necessary to carry forward this worthy enterprise. Because of the heavy burden carried by the servant of the Lord for this medical school, it seems fitting that the hospital should bear her name.

No building or column of granite could be a fitting memorial of the noble life whose influence, under God, has molded the lives of so many; but if she could speak, we think that her choice would be some humble building where the poor and the needy could receive spiritual and physical help. Such will be the work of the hospital when completed.

Money for the work is needed at once. The building will go forward only as fast as the funds are received. No debts will be incurred in erecting the hospital.

The photographs will be mailed, post-paid, to any address in the United States or Canada, for fifty cents each, or one dollar for the two. Postage should be added for foreign countries. Address all orders to Mrs. S. S. Merrell, Loma Linda, Cal. The name and age of each of these aged ministers, also the number of years each has spent in the gospel ministry, are printed on the back of the photographs.

MRS. S. N. HASKELL, Chairman of the Women’s Committee.