An Encouraging Opening
By David Paulson
LAST summer one of the leading business men of Wichita, Kan., took his invalid wife to several of the Colorado health resorts, but she gradually grew worse. Finally some one suggested the Boulder Sanitarium to him. He went there, and in a few weeks his wife received wonderful benefit, and they came home charmed with the Christian spirit that they had seen manifested in that institution. This gentleman immediately decided that such an institution should be located in Wichita. As a result of his efforts, arrangements were made for Dr. Kellogg to give a lecture there several months ago, and then two nurses were sent to Wichita from our Nebraska Sanitarium. They readily secured the co-operation of the best people in the city, and the sanitarium sentiment continued to grow. Recently our Kansas brethren leased a building for the purpose of fitting it up for treatment rooms, and the Chamber of Commerce signified their willingness to assist in raising means to purchase necessary equipments and appliances. Arrangements were made for me to come and give a talk in the Congregational church, on The Battle Creek Idea. In this audience were not only some of the leading business men of the place, but the president of the Chamber of Commerce. At the conclusion of my talk, the gentleman who had been to Boulder gave one of the most stirring and enthusiastic speeches in favor of our work and principles that I ever listened to. Then the president arose, and said that he wished to indorse all that had been said, and that he would do all he could to forward this enterprise. A committee of leading business men was appointed, and they will start out with a subscription paper for the purpose of raising money. That which seemed to appeal the strongest to those men, as well as to the editor of one of the daily papers, was the Christian spirit and missionary side of our work. God is certainly pouring out his Spirit on all flesh, and some are responding to it. When we see God move in such a marked manner upon the hearts of those who have not had such opportunities to see his providences in the work as most of us have enjoyed, it should be the handwriting on the wall to us, that unless we speedily gird on our armor, God will call on others to do our work, and finally to wear our crown.