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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 1, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 44.

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A Medical Missionary Secretary Appointed

By Arthur G. Daniells

OUR medical workers will be glad to learn that after some delay we have secured a secretary for the General Conference Medical Missionary Department. Some months before the General Conference held in Washington in 1905, Dr. J. E. Froom was appointed by the General Conference Committee to look after the general interests of our medical missionary work. When the Medical Missionary Department was organized at the Washington Conference, Dr. Froom was elected secretary of the department. While visiting the Northern Pacific Union Conference a few months ago in the interests of the department, he was requested to take charge of the Portland Sanitarium, and the General Conference was urged to release him for that position. This was agreed to, and since then the department has had no secretary. This has been unfortunate. The department is large, and has many important interests that need constant attention. These interests have suffered since Dr. Froom's retirement from the secretaryship.
But this department will now receive proper attention. Dr. W. A. Ruble has accepted a call from the General Conference Committee to take the secretaryship, and will be in charge of the department at Washington in a few days. After having been graduated from Battle Creek College, Brother Ruble spent some years in our educational work, and went to Africa to connect with Claremont Union College. While holding the position of president of the college, he decided to take a medical course. Having completed this course, Dr. Ruble again joins our busy force of workers. We feel sure that our physicians and nurses will give Dr. E. T. Ruble a hearty welcome to the important post of service to which he has been called. It is the plan of the General Conference Committee that the medical secretary shall be a member of the medical staff of the Washington Sanitarium when the new institution is opened. This will enable him to keep up to date in practical work. All correspondence relating to the general interests of our medical missionary work should be addressed to Dr. W. A. Ruble, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
A. G. DANIELLS.