p. 13 | A UNITED WORK by William Clarence White

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 19.

A UNITED WORK.

By William Clarence White

It has been proposed that in the erection of buildings, and the opening up of a sanitarium and school work at Takoma Park, near Washington, D. C., arrangements be made for the sanitarium to give a large amount of work to the school, and for the school to use its facilities as far as consistent for the forwarding of the interests of the sanitarium.

The first building to be erected on our forty-seven-acre tract will probably be a schoolhouse built to accommodate about thirty students. Then close by, a dining hall, to seat about one hundred persons. Over the dining-room, the space which later on will serve as workrooms for the lady students, can be used at the first as meeting hall for the church, and schoolroom for evening classes.

With these two buildings, the school can open up a boarding-house for workmen, and an evening school. Tents can be used during the summer by many workmen while the sanitarium buildings are being constructed.

In the erection of sanitarium buildings, we shall endeavor at first to put up a two-story building with basement and attic, which will accommodate a family of about twenty-five patients, but so planned that it can be enlarged to accommodate fifty or more patients, if enlargement becomes necessary. In this building must be our parlors, and in wings or annexes, the dining-rooms, bath rooms and offices.

By using the schoolhouse as a home for sanitarium helpers, it may be possible to open up our sanitarium work with accommodation for a goodly number of patients before the next winter.

It is our hope that the schoolhouse may be the home also of some of the workmen engaged in erecting the General Conference building, and the Review and Herald building. An earnest effort will be made to secure experienced and efficient teachers, and to conduct evening classes in such studies as will be most highly valued by the workmen on our various buildings. W. C. WHITE, Chairman of Sanitarium Board.