COLORADO SANITARIUM by Francis M. Wilcox

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1901

COLORADO SANITARIUM.

By Francis M. Wilcox

We are glad to say that the Lord has been signally blessing our sanitarium, more, perhaps, during the last year of its experience than during any preceding year. Fully one third more patients have visited us during the last twelve months than in any previous period of its history, and the patients, too, have been of an excellent class. They have manifested a deeper interest in the principles of our work, and have returned to their homes with a more thorough knowledge of the principles for which the institution stands. The Lord has blessed and is blessing in the accomplishment of cures, and as patients have taken their departure, many expressions of heartfelt gratitude have been uttered.

An increased interest over any preceding year has been shown by the patients in religious matters. During the summer months, particularly, lectures were given upon various phases of present truth, and these were well attended, and listened to with marked interest.

This increased patronage is not due, perhaps, to any special efforts that have been put forth of late, but rather it seems to be the fruit of the faithful labor of the past. The earnest, devoted efforts of Dr. Riley, and of Brother and Sister Druillard during the years of depression through which the institution passed, are now beginning to bear fruit. Then, too, we believe the Lord, in pity and forbearance, is turning the captivity of His work here. However it may be, to Him we ascribe all the praise.

At the present time our staff of physicians consists of Drs. W. H. Riley, O. G. Place, Kate Lindsay, and Alice Conway. Dr. Riley, in addition to the superintendency of the institution, holds the chair of

mental and nervous diseases in the State University of Colorado. This has been an assistance to the institution, in that it has given the medical work a standing among the medical fraternity. No small per cent of our patients come now through the suggestion of their medical advisors at home. The long experience of Dr. Lindsay, we believe, will materially aid our work here. Indeed, we know that it has already done so in a large degree, and we are pleased to report that she expects to remain with the institution for some time. Her efforts for our lady patients, supplemented by the valuable services of Dr. Conway, give to the institution the help it has needed for a long time. It was under the direction of Dr. Place that the work was begun, and it is a cause for rejoicing on the part of his many friends that he is again connected with the institution here. His large practical experience, and particularly his experience in surgery, will be of inestimable value to the sanitarium.

The family of helpers are of good courage. While they have trials, they also see many ways in which the Lord is at work, and this brings to them encouragement in their trying experiences. The nurses' class which begins this month will be the largest, and considering everything, the best class, we trust, that has ever entered upon the nurses' course in the institution. FRANCIS M. WILCOX.