THE class program of the graduating class of the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Nurses, the night of Dec. 19, 1915, was of a character that warrants our special mention. As indicating what may be done on such an occasion to make the closing work of a class both entertaining and instructive, a brief account will be of interest, especially to those who feel that too often the light and the frivolous in the class program are disproportionate to the serious and the earnest of the commencement exercises.
There were six members of the class. After invocation by Elder F. M. Wilcox, a solo by C. R. Gibbs, and a class history—and it was good, too—by Ethel Fankhouser, the platform was cleared of chairs, and successive settings made for demonstrating six fields of usefulness open to the graduate nurse.
Dispensary work in China was shown by Gertrude Cornor. With dressings, bandages, medicines, and instruments in readiness, the nurse in Chinese dress was ready for patients. A case of broken arm was the first, and it soon was in splints and plaster of Paris bandage. Next came a case of sore eyes. The nurse explained to her assistant and to the audience the reasons for the prevalence of much eye trouble among Orientals, giving proper treatment the meanwhile. The Chinese patients kept up an animated conversation in Chinese, and manifested great interest in all they saw. Gospel literature was given them as they left.
Bible work among poor and rich was shown by Nellie Strickler. The demonstration opened with a poor woman's room, a sick child lying in a chair, and the tired mother at a washtub. Answering a knock at the door, the mother admitted the visiting nurse, who soon saw the needs, and began at once to give relief. First she gave instruction as to the care of the child. Then, getting the mother to sit down to rest, she rolled up her sleeves and took hold of the washing, much to the surprise of the woman. The conversation naturally drifted to the Bible as an exponent of real religion, and finally to an appointment for Bible studies.
The scene was changed to a rich home, with the woman of leisure sitting with her latest novel. She reluctantly answered the repeated knock at the door, and admitted the visiting nurse, who soon made known that she was soliciting help for the poor woman with a sick child but a short distance away. The woman of means responded after a little discussion of the reasons for poverty. Becoming interested in what the nurse told about true Bible religion, the woman expressed her desire to know more of the Bible, and arrangements were made for studies.
The church-school teacher was represented by Ethel Fankhouser. Her school-room was in neat order as the children entered and seated themselves. Little Winifred seemed dull in her failure to respond to questions and suggestions. On investigation, the teacher found that it was not stupidity but poor hearing, due to causes easily remedied. Maud found difficulty in obeying directions to “sit up” properly, and the difficulty was found by the teacher to be in the chair and desk, and not in the child. Information was given the hearers as to proper seating. Bessie's cough called for attention and a note to her mother. Ethel held her book so close to her eyes that the discerning nurse-teacher saw it must be on account of weak eyes. A test proved this to be the case. Horace did not look well, and on examination was found to have a rise of temperature and to be in possible danger of a serious fever. The class was dismissed, and a little talk on the health needs of the school was given the audience.
The professional nurse was represented by Fancheon Roth, showing the nurse in a sanitarium room with a patient—a case of “nerves.” The need of tact, skill, and good training to deal with the varied demands made upon the true nurse was well shown, and it was plainly evident that properly to fill the place of a professional nurse one should be first a missionary nurse. To such a nurse the patient is more than a “case.”
Mrs. Roundtree, impersonated by Marguerite von der Schmidt, represented the nurses who marry and settle down to housekeeping, but make all the better wives and housekeepers for being nurses first. She was seated in her room, expressing her enjoyment at freedom from the activities of the regular nurse's life, when the architect came with the plans for the new Roundtree home. The plans received careful consideration, and the architect was given a little lecture on correct principles of heating and ventilation. He recognized why Mr. Roundtree had referred the plans to his wife for final approval. The next caller was a neighbor who came to express her appreciation of the good meal she and her husband had enjoyed at the Roundtree table a few evenings before, and to ask for suggestions for a company dinner she was planning. The nurse-housewife gave the needed help, offering a holiday menu, and giving reasons for doing certain things and not doing others.
Red Cross Service was the field of work demonstrated by C. R. Gibbs. He was giving a health lecture when recruiting officers found him and called him to the service of the king. His disinclination to bear arms received little consideration until it was learned that he had at one time been trained in nursing. His services for relief work were welcomed, and later he was seen ministering to the wounded brought in from the battle field.
The company present, filling the sanitarium gymnasium, thoroughly enjoyed the program. Nothing needed to be said to call attention to the value of a class exercise that was so in keeping with the three years' training just closing and with the call of the future just opening. All was appropriate to the commencement exercises of the following night, at which time Elder W. A. Spicer gave the address and Dr. H. W. Miller presented the diplomas.
L. A. HANSEN.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Northern Union Conference
By CHAS. THOMPSON; W. H. EDWARDS
The seventh biennial session of the Northern Union Conference will begin Feb. 1, 1916, at 9:30 A. M., at the Pence Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minn., and will continue till the seventh. At this session officers will be chosen, amendments to the constitution will be made, and such other business transacted as may be proper to come before the meeting.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President.
W. H. EDWARDS, Secretary.
Northern Union Conference Association
By Chas. Thompson; W. H. Edwards
The Northern Union Conference Association will convene at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1916, at the Pence Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minn., for the transaction of such business as may properly come before the meeting.
CHAS. THOMPSON, President.
W. H. EDWARDS, Secretary.
British Columbia Conference Association
By J. G. WALKER; J. B. GIDDINGS
THE British Columbia Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the regular meeting of the conference to be held in Union Street church, Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 1-14, 1916. The first meeting of the association will convene at 3 P. M., Friday, February 11. At this session officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as pertains to the association.
J. G. WALKER, President.
J. B. GIDDINGS, Secretary.
Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association
By F. M. WILCOX; H. W. MILLER
NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association of Washington, D. C., will be held at the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Md., Jan. 26, 1916, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of receiving and passing upon the reports to be submitted by its officers, for the consideration of plans for the future prosecution of the work, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before this meeting. This corporation consists of the members of the following committees: The executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committees of the State conferences of Seventh-day Adventists in the Columbia Union Conference; the members of the board of directors of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association; and the physicians under the employ of the association.
F. M. WILCOX, President.
H. W. MILLER, Secretary.
Medical Missionary Department
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. — General Secretary
L. A. HANSEN — Assistant Secretary
H. W. MILLER, M. D. — N. Am. Div. Secretary
February “Life and Health”
SUPPOSE a perfectly reliable and eminently successful physician should come into your community and advertise to give in one lecture just how to economically heat your house so the air will be right; just how to prepare and to combine food so it will easily digest and furnish all the food elements the system requires; just how to deal with pain and common diseases, and with these three important specials, throw in more than an hour in giving practical health suggestions that the best minds of the age have worked out with great labor and expense, would you pay ten cents to hear him? It would be economy to pay $1 for such information. In fact, such instruction cannot be compared with money in real value.
The February issue of Life and Health brings to its readers all of these most needed and timely instructions. In practical value it can only be compared with good health.
Washington Missionary College
By W. T. Knox; M. E. Olsen
Constituency Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Washington Missionary College Corporation will be held in the College chapel, at Takoma Park, Md., at 2:30 P. M., Jan. 26, 1916, to receive the annual reports, to elect trustees for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before the meeting.
The members of this corporation consist of the executive officers of the North American Division Conference; the presidents and educational secretaries of the Columbia, Atlantic, Southern, and Southeastern Union Conferences; all members of the board; the president of the College; the medical superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium; those members of the College faculty who are heads of departments; such members of the North American Division and General Conference Committees as may be present; the educational secretaries of the North American Division; and the members of the Columbia Union Conference Committee.
W. T. KNOX, President.
M. E. OLSEN, Secretary.
Central Union Conference
By R. A. UNDERWOOD
The seventh biennial session of the Central Union Conference will convene in the church at College View, Nebr., February 8-15. The daily program, as arranged by the North American Division, will be something as follows:—
A. M.
8:45 — 9:30 Prayer and social meeting
9:45 — 10:45 Bible study
11:00 — 12:00 Bible study
P. M.
12:30 — 1:30 Dinner
2:30 — 3:30 Bible study
3:45 — 5:00 Union or local conference councils
6:00 — 7:00 Supper
7:30 — 9:00 Preaching service.
It is suggested by the North American Division that on February 8, 9:45 to 10:45 A. M., be the opening session of the business conference, with report of the president and selection of committees; and until after the Sabbath the time each day be given to the institute work. Then, beginning the evening after the Sabbath, February 12, the regular business of the conference be transacted, which will give us about two days to do this work.
I wish to suggest that, immediately following, after a very short session of the first business session, on Tuesday, at 10:45, we call a session of the legal association of the Central Union Conference, to arrange for committees. This will take but a few moments.
This union conference will be a very important meeting, and we trust that the delegates and all who come will earnestly pray that God's special blessing and his Holy Spirit may preside over each meeting of the session.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, President.
Central Union Conference Association
By R. A. UNDERWOOD; F. F. BYINGTON
THE legal meeting of the Central Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the tabernacle at College View, in connection with the Central Union Conference, and will hold its first meeting at 10:45 A. M., on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1916, for the transaction of such business as may come before the constituent body which is composed of the delegates of the Central Union Conference.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, Chairman.
F. F. BYINGTON. Secretary.
Clinton German Seminary
By R. A. Underwood; J. H. Schilling
THE legal corporation of the Clinton German Seminary will hold a meeting for the selection of its trustees, and such other matters as may be necessary, in connection with the Central Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in the tabernacle at College View, Nebr., Feb. 8, 1916, at 10:50 A. M.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, Chairman ofBoard of Trustees.
J. H. SCHILLING, Secretary.
Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Association
By R. A. Underwood; E. J. Baker
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Association will be held at College View, Nebr., in conjunction with the regular biennial session of the Central Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, Feb. 8-14, 1916.
The constituency, or membership, of this association consists of the board of trustees and the regularly elected delegates to the biennial session of the Central Union Conference.
This meeting is called for the purpose of electing officers and a board of trustees for the ensuing two years, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, President.
E. J. BAKER, Secretary.
Addresses Wanted
ANY one knowing the whereabouts of J. H. Johnson, E. P. Johnson, Anna Thomas, and Lula L. Shaw are requested to communicate with the church clerk, Mrs. Brant Bartlett, R. F. D. 2, Roswell, N. Mex.
Request for Prayer
A NEW JERSEY sister who is ill desires prayer that she may be healed without submitting to a surgical operation.
THE Takoma Park Missionary Society will be glad to receive from our canvassers, names of persons to whom they have sold literature. These names are desired for missionary correspondence. Address Edw. Quinn, Jr., Takoma Park, D. C.
Obituaries
By J. W. Lair; A. R. Ogden; Grace Runnels; F. I. Richardson; L. T. Nicola; Wm. Guthrie; Geo. E. Langdon; T. L. Copeland
Betts.— Raymond Betts, infant son of Brother and Sister Gerald Betts, died at Akron, Iowa, Dec. 22, 1915, aged two and one-half years. We laid him to rest at Elk Point, S. Dak., to await the call of the Life-giver. Our hope is in his promise.
J. W. Lair.
Harden.— Ellen Lewis Harden was born in Lacona, Md., Oct. 24, 1838, and departed this life Dec. 4, 1915. She accepted present truth about twenty-seven years ago, under the labors of Elder R. C. Porter, in southern Iowa. She remained true and faithful to the message until the end.
A. R. Ogden.
Kidder.— Little Mary Grace Kidder died at Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov. 11, 1915. She was born Aug. 16, 1913. Her mother died a few months ago, but the grandparents tenderly cared for the little one, and they, with her two sisters and other relatives, are left to mourn. They wait with hope for the resurrection morning.
Grace Runnels.
Neal.— Darius Guy Neal was born in Coos County, Oregon, March 3, 1872, and died in Glendora, Cal., Dec. 19, 1915. He was married July 28, 1909, to Miss Ethel Grim who, with their two children and many relatives and friends, mourn their loss. He accepted present truth some time ago, and died in full hope of having a part in the first resurrection.
F. I. Richardson.
Arnold.— Mary Arnold, née Edy, was born in Ontario, Canada, Oct. 23, 1862, and died after a protracted illness, at Detroit, Mich., Dec. 7, 1915. She was married to Robert Arnold in 1885. They united with the Detroit Seventh-day Adventist church in 1893. Hers was a devoted Christian life. Of her immediate relatives, the husband and two daughters are left.
L. T. Nicola.
Hart.— Mrs. Orrin Hart died at Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 20, 1915. She was born near Mansfield, Ohio, July 26, 1839. She came to Michigan in the sixties, and was married to Orrin Hart in 1869. Since then her home has been in Flushing. She became a Seventh-day Adventist several years ago, and remained faithful to the end of life. Her husband and two sons survive.
Wm. Guthrie.
Jacobus.— Henrietta Eden was born in Bloomfield, N. J., Sept. 17, 1843. In 1869 she was united in marriage with Pierson Jacobus. Four children were born to them. In 1901, while living in New York City, Brother and Sister Jacobus accepted the third angel's message, and united with the church. Soon after, they moved to Battle Creek, Mich., where our sister fell peacefully asleep Jan. 1, 1916. Her husband and two children are left in bereavement.
Geo. E. Langdon.
Hoffman.— N. C. Hoffman, of Falls City, Oregon, was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1859, and died at Independence, Oregon, Jan. 3, 1916, while on his way to Portland. He came to America in 1876, and nine years later was united in marriage with Miss Eva Washburn. Five years ago he accepted the third angel's message, and remained faithful until called by death. He is survived by his wife and six children, but they sorrow in hope of the glad reunion soon to come.
Turner.— Sophia Roice Turner was born in Glenwood, N. Y., March 18, 1847, and died at Hailey, Idaho, Nov. 12, 1915. The deceased was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for thirty years. She accepted present truth at Alton, Kans., later moving to Boise, Idaho, where she held church membership for the last twenty-six years of her life. She leaves to mourn a husband and three children, besides many relatives and friends. We believe she sleeps in Jesus, and will come forth at his call. Funeral services were conducted by Reverend Burgman, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hailey, Idaho.
T. L. Copeland.
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