An Appeal for the Graysville Sanitarium by E. W. Webster

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1907

An Appeal for the Graysville Sanitarium

By E. W. Webster

I AM not making an appeal now for money for this institution, although it needs it, and this is not written at the request or with the knowledge of the sanitarium board; it is wholly a personal appeal, from a sense of gratitude for what has been done here for Mrs. Webster, for myself, and for others also, and because I feel it to be right and my duty to try to arouse each one who reads this to see the good he may do this institution and the cause of God by saying a few words for it to others.

This sanitarium is established and well fitted up not only to treat the sick, but to stand as a light to the world and to give a knowledge of the third angel's message to those who may be induced to come here. In the winter especially should this institution be filled with patients from the North, and in summer from the South. It is a good place for invalids from all parts of the country at all seasons of the year, with delightful mountain air in summer, and mild winters.

If all our people within reasonable distance would become acquainted with the place themselves, get really interested in it and its work, then do what they can with their neighbors and friends to get those who might be benefited by treatments interested in it and get them here, much good might be done. I appeal to you to co-operate with the managers and physicians to make the work of this sanitarium a success.

God has directed that this institution be built for the advancement of this precious cause, and through it people can be reached who could not be reached now, with this truth in any other way; but this work does not rest alone upon the managers and physicians. They can do their part; but upon our people in their homes rests the responsibility of bringing their neighbors and friends who can be induced to do so, and who need its benefits, into touch with this place, and perhaps with eternal life.

You are interested in your home missionary work, and in our foreign missions, and this is all as it should be: have you yet become really interested in this particular phase of missionary work and felt your responsibility to help this branch of God's work in the manner indicated? Send to the Graysville Sanitarium for information and announcements, and work for the advancement of

God's cause through this channel. Please do not wait; send at once.

What I have said of this institution applies with equal force to our other institutions and to our people living within their range of influence and operation. I believe all our people should do more for the upbuilding of these institutions in the manner indicated in this appeal. Will you not take hold at once to act on these suggestions?

E. W. WEBSTER.