MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK IN LOS ANGELES.
By David Paulson
GENERAL hygienic dining rooms, open to the public so that they may have an opportunity to procure a healthful and wholesome dietary, prepared and served under Christian management, is the latest missionary enterprise to be developed in the ever-increasing scope of our missionary operations. In establishing this missionary feature, there have been special difficulties to meet, obstacles to surmount and peculiar dangers to be guarded against. However, this work is now rapidly passing beyond the experimental stage, and the hygienic dining room is speedily coming to be recognized as a great missionary opportunity whereby we may come in contact with many, and help them in various ways. Several years ago Dr. Moran, with some co-workers, opened a hygienic restaurant in Los Angeles. This enterprise has steadily grown until now nearly one thousand meals are served daily.139Los Angeles is one of America's greatest winter resorts; among the crowds that throng its streets may be seen some of the nation's leading citizens; so it can readily be seen that this is an especially favorable place for a health restaurant. Thousands of these people are invalids who have come to this locality in search of health, many of them having ruined their health by vicious habits of eating and drinking. How absurd to suppose that they can be permanently benefited by a change of climate if they do not change their dietary so as to secure a more wholesome climate within the system! As a matter of fact, this is a far more important factor in the recovery of health than is the climate that is outside of them. Fairly well-equipped treatment rooms have been maintained on the floors above the restaurant, but the growth of the work seems to demand that a sanitarium be located in this vicinity. We trust that God will move on the hearts of men of means to help this worthy enterprise. DAVID PAULSON.