In Sunny Arizona by E. R. Palmer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 17, 1903

In Sunny Arizona

By E. R. Palmer

A RECENT notice in the REVIEW has informed my friends and fellow workers that my little boat has been forced into dry dock for repairs. These few words are to tell you that the good hand of God has been upon me, and he has so blessed the treatments and exercises, under the direction of the Arizona Sanitarium, that I am steadily, but surely, improving in every respect; and, with the daily touch and blessing of the great Healer, this will evidently prove a sure road to complete recovery.

I am greatly blessed in the privilege of living at our clean, wholesome, thoroughly Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium. Until near the time of coming here this institution was quite unknown to me, as it may be also to the large majority of our people; but it ought to be better known; for I am persuaded that it will become a favorite winter resort and place of healing for many who are going to less pleasant and less satisfactory places.

The sanitarium is located at 525 Central Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. Phoenix is the territorial capital, and has a population of about twelve thousand people. It is one hundred and ninety-six miles south of the main line of the Sante Fe Railroad, on the branch line running south from Ash Fork. Located in the Salt River Valley, with fine mountains to protect it on either side, and with an elevation of about twelve hundred feet above sea level, Phoenix enjoys a salubrious winter climate, which is almost, if not quite, without an equal. In the warmest part of the day the temperature is seldom above eighty degrees in the shade, and about the coldest temperature known here is twenty-five degrees above zero; it is seldom below freezing. The days are calm and bright; the nights are cool; there is seldom any wind. No one says, “If it is fine to-morrow, we will do this or that,” for it is always “fine to-morrow.” The first morning after I arrived here, I said to a gentleman, “This is a fine morning, isn’t it?” He replied, “Of course it is!” The weather is not considered a proper topic of conversation, for there are so few changes.

Though Phoenix is in the heart of the great American desert, yet it is a beautiful place, one hundred thousand acres of fertile land being under irrigation. Thus the place enjoys perpetual sunshine, together with rich, fertile fields that are always green, and flowers that bloom all winter.

The sanitarium is in charge of Dr. E. C. Bond. Persons wishing to enjoy the advantages afforded by the sanitarium and the fine, dry climate should write to the doctor before coming.

While thus isolated from my work, I shall be glad to hear from my old friends.

E. R. PALMER.