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VOL. 46 ANGWIN, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 5, 1947 NO. 30

Youth Evangelism Plans young people in all our churches and lation was just one-third of its present HEAR YE! GIVE EAR! schools of all levels. status. Good news indeed! "3. Encouraging our workers to As a soul-winning auxiliary of the In one week, 3,277 young people visit and pray, if possible, in every home first magnitude for 1947 Signs presents were baptized and joined baptismal where there are children and youth. an unusual array of article content from classes. The M.V. Week of Prayer last "4. Organizing baptismal classes and well-known contributors in our great year produced these splendid results. conducting baptisms of properly quali- organization. And all of this with only 30 per cent of fied young people, who have accepted Our people will be happy to know our churches holding evangelistic meet- Christ as their Saviour, and who are that the circulation achievement men- ings for youth. What good might have determined by God's grace to follow tioned above places Signs in a leading been done if all our churches had put Him." role among Protestant weeklies in the forth comparable efforts? E. W. DUNBAR, Secretary United States. The Christian Advooate Now we face another such oppor- Young People's Department of is second, with a circulation of approxi- tunity. March 8-15 is the spring Week Missionary Volunteers. mately 310,000 copies. Continuing its of Prayer. What shall we make of it? admirable service as our only weekly Upon your decision — pastor, elder, missionary periodical with the momen- church officer, M.V. leader—may hang Signs, the Leading Protestant tum acquired during the war years, we the destiny of thousands of our youth. Weekly are prompted to contemplate a healthy May God's Spirit guide us as we In a recent issue of the RECORDER increase during 1947. A conservative unite to put into effect the following we were happy to announce to our peo- estimate of weekly home coverage in recommendation adopted by the Gen- ple that Signs is now enjoying a weekly the United States suggests that Signs eral Conference Committee on January distribution of 328,000 copies, just reached an average of one out of every 23, 1947: 5,000 short of a third of a million. This 85 homes during the past year. We "WHEREAS, Our own young people represents the high peak of circulation trust the united response of our people in our churches constitute one of the achievement for which its publishers during the next few weeks will enable most fruitful fields of evangelism, and and promoters have dreamed for many the thrilling message of Signs to reach "WHEREAS, the spring Week of years. And the end is not yet. Master- a still greater proportion of homes, and Prayer is becoming one of the greatest ing many of the perplexing problems of that many souls will find their way into opportunities for youth evangelism in printing and dispatch in delivery that the light of our saving message as a the church, and have arisen during the war years, we result of its distribution. CHRISTMAN. "WHEREAS, In 1946, during this are now turned to a program that will H. K. special week, with only 30 per cent of make provision for a half million per --0-- our churches conducting revival efforts week. This is the good news we are Circulate Foreign Signs for youth, 955 young people were bap- anxious to relay to our Signs enthusiasts On the third of February the War tized and 2,322 others joined baptismal everywhere, who recognize in its use Department announced that German classes. one of the most potential soul-winning nationals and institutions in the United "We recommend, That the confer- agencies heaven has provided for this States occupation zone of Germany will ence and church workers throughout people. be permitted to receive packages of the North American Division put forth The new rotary press, that will print printed matter of 4 pounds 6 ounces. even greater efforts in 1947 to make the an average of 10,000 to 12,000 copies It is our understanding that the remain- Spring Week of Prayer, March 8-15, per hour, all pasted and folded ready ing zones of Germany soon will be a mighty evangelistic campaign for for delivery, even with the prospect of opened for mail privileges. youth in all our churches by: two-color features, is about , ready to One of the greatest missionary oppor- "1. Assigning and distribution of begin operation. Additional equipment tunities that presents itself to our people leadership to care for, as far as possible, and operating personnel, with an ac- at this time is that of getting our foreign every church where there are children celerated program will now guarantee Signs into the homes of the 22,000,000 and youth. a fairly normal delivery to subscribers people in this country who were born in "2. Conducting evangelistic revival everywhere similar to that enjoyed dur- homes where English is not the spoken meetings especially directed to our ing the prewar years, when the circu- (Continued on page. 16) 2 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER

Pacific Union Recorder VOL. 46 NO. 30 Pacific Union College WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947

Officio': organ of the Pacific Union Confer- Spring Quarter the College as well as of the community. ence of Seventh-day Adventists, Box 146, Its former members are to be found in Glendale, California. The spring quarter opens March 24. Published weekly at Angwin, California. At that time many courses in the var- all parts of the world and many other ious departments will be open to new choirs and choral organizations have Address: Pacific Union Recorder, Box 116, students. For information write to the been started with this choir as a model. Angwin, California. Notice of change of The organizer and first director was address should both the old and the Registrar, Pacific Union College, Ang- win, California. Prof. George Greer, who served until new address. 1937. Mrs. Ivalyn Law Biloff was direc- 50 Cents a Year Subscription Price, tor from 1937 to 1943, and from the Alumni Homecoming latter year till the present, Prof. J. W. C. L. TORREY Editor March 30 is the day for this year's Rhodes has served. The first choir was OPAL STONE Assistant Editor Homecoming. Officers who are plan- of 25 voices. Through the years the C. L. BAUER Assistant Editor ning for a day filled with interesting membership has grown, until at present activities urge members of the Pacific it stands at 55-28 women and 27 men. Entered as second-class matter September 3, Union College Alumni Association to 1927, at the post office at Angwin, California, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. begin now to plan to spend the week La Sierra College Visitors end on the campus of their alma mater. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of A group of 16 students and teachers postage provided for in section 412, Act of --0-- February 28, 1925, authorized September 3, from La Sierra College spent the week 1927. A Cappella Choir Reunion end of February 21 on the Pacific In conjunction with the Alumni Union College campus. They gave two Sunset Table Homecoming on March 30, the P.U.C. programs, at the chapel Friday morn- a Cappella Choir will give a reunion ing and at the vesper service Friday Friday, March 7 concert in celebration of the twentieth evening. The theme stressed in the 6:08 Oakland 6:07 Angwin San Diego 5:50 anniversary of its organization. All programs was the common objectives of Arlington 5:51 6:06 former choir members are invited and the two colleges and the desire of Chico 6:04 San Jose 6:13 Phoenix 6:29 Eureka urged by the director, Prof. J. Wesley teachers and students to continue and Fresno 5:58 Reno 5:56 Rhodes, to attend this reunion and to strengthen the bonds of friendship and 6:03 Salt Lake City 6:25 Lodi participate in the program. It is planned cooperation existing between the two Los Angeles 5:53 Honolulu 6:07 to have one group of numbers sung by institutions. The chairman of both Friday, March 14 the entire reunion group. These will programs was Ansel Bristol, president of 6:15 Oakland 6:14 Angwin be "Song of Heaven and Home," the La Sierra student association. 5:56 San Diego 5:55 Arlington 6:12 San Jose 6:13 "What Must It Be to See Jesus?" and The visitors were welcomed by Dr. Chico 6:22 Phoenix 6:34 "Is It Far to Canaan's Land?" A re- Percy W. Christian, president of Paci- Eureka Fresno 6:05 Reno 6:04 hearsal will be held Sunday morning, fic Union College, and George Jenson, Salt Lake City 6:33 Lodi 6:10 March 30, at 11, so that former mem- president of the student association. Los Angeles 5:59 Honolulu 6:10 bers can review these numbers. The choir was organized in the fall of 1926. During the twenty years of Father-Son Banquet Special Notice The biennial Father-Son Banquet, To All Dorcas Society Leaders and its existence, it has traveled thousands Individuals of miles and given hundreds of concerts. sponsored by the Men of Grainger, was Last year the choir resumed extended held Sunday evening, February 23 To all who are contributing clothing concert tours, which were not possible with nearly 500 attending. Fathers and sending parcels to either of our during the war. This year the group came from all parts of California, and warehouses to be sent overseas: will travel as far as San Diego. a few from out of the state. Please be sure to pay the transporta- In addition to its concert tours, the The guest of honor was Elder Walter tion. This has been our agreement and choir has made several radio appear- B. Clark, former dean of men in Grain- arrangement heretofore. Many are send- ances and has made a number of record- ger hall, and the guest speaker was ing parcels to the warehouses C.O.D. ings. The Pacific Union Conference Elder W. R. French, former head of Do not send any parcels or shipments now has recordings available, and at the department of theology. C.O.D. It is costing us hundreds of the Homecoming the Alumni Associa- Following the dinner a varied pro- dollars to meet these parcels' charges. tion will• have some recordings for sale. gram of speeches and music was given. Please bear in mind the General Con- The choir serves regularly as the ference has agreed to meet the transpor- church choir at the college. All through Junior Class Organized tation charges after they leave the ware- the years it has been recognized as one With an initial membership of 21, house to go overseas. We thank you of the best a cappella choirs on the West which will be augmented soon, the for your cooperation in this. Coast, and it has made a large contri- Junior Class of 1947 was organized WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE. bution to the devotion and culture of February 23. PACIFIC UNION RECORDER 3 Of Vital Importance

We are publishing herewith a com- State Senators and Assemblymen plete list of the State Senators and Dist. Assemblymen Assemblymen in California. This list County Dist. Senator will be good for two years. Later, we Alameda 16 Arthur H. Breed, Jr. 13 Francis Dunn, Jr. • hope to have this compiled in a leaflet, 14 Randal F. Dickey 15 Bernard A. Sheridan but preserve this issue of the RECORDER, 16 Marvin Sherwin as we will need these names before we 17 Edward J. Carey can prepare a separate leaflet. 18 Thomas W. Caldecott There are a number of matters of Alpine 9 H. E. Dillinger 6 Allen G. Thurman Amador 9 H. E. Dillinger 6 Allen G. Thurman vital interest to our people which I will 4 Bert W. Loomis enumerate. Butte 6 Charles H. Deuel Calaveras 26 Jesse M. Mayo 6 Allen G. Thurman First—Calendar Change Colusa 8 Louis G. Sutton 3 Lloyd W. Lowrey Please refer to the article by Elder Contra Costa 17 T. H. DeLap 10 George Miller, Jr. Haynes in the RECORDER of February Del Norte 2 Randolph Collier 1 Michael J. Burns 19, beginning on page 16 and conclud- El Dorado 9 H. E. Dillinger 6 Allen G. Thurman Fresno 30 Hugh M. Burns 34 James G. Crichton ing on page 11. Read this entire article 35 S. L. Heisinger if you have not already done so. This Glenn 8 Louis G. Sutton 3 Lloyd W. Lowrey is for immediate action. Follow the in- Humboldt 3 Irwin T. Quinn 1 Michael J. Burns structions given and you will have no Imperial 39 Ben Hulse 77 George R. Butters • 6 Allen G. Thurman difficulty. This refers to the believers Inyo 28 Charles Brown Kern. 34 Jess R. Dorsey 39 W. E. James of Los Angeles County particularly. Kings 27 R. R. Cunningham 36 Harry J. Johnson There are two bills before the National Lake 4 Burt W. Busch 5 Ernest C. Crowley Legislature at Washington, D.C. HR Lassen 1 Harold J. Powers 2 Lester Thomas Davis 1242 and FIR 1345. The Assembly Districts are as follows: (For Los Angeles County see list after Yuba County) Honorable Donald L. Jackson, House Madera 24 George J. Hatfield 31 George A. Clarke Office Building, Washington, D.C. Marin 13 Thomas F. Keating 7 Richard H. McCollister Assembly District 59, Beverly Hills to Mariposa 26 Jesse M. Mayo 6 Allen G. Thurman West Los Angeles, Assembly District Mendocino 4 Burt W. Busch 1 Michael J. Burns 60—Santa Monica, Assembly District Merced 24 George J. Hatfield 31 George A. Clarke Modoc 1 Harold J. Powers 2 Lester Thomas Davis 61—Culver City to Venice. Mono 28 Charles Brown 6 Allen G. Thurman Honorable Helen Gahagan Douglas, Monterey 25 Fred Weybret 33 James W. Silliman House Office Building, Washington, Napa 11 Frank L. Gordon 5 Ernest C. Crowley D.C. Assembly District 44—Downtown Nevada 7 Vacancy 6 Allen G. Thurman Orange 35 Clyde A. Watson 74 (SE half of county Los Angeles, Assembly District 55—Pico Earl W. Stanley) to Maple to Western, Assembly District 75 (NW half of county 62—Central and Vernon Avenue area, Sam L. Collins) a Assembly District 64—Echo and Mac- Placer 7 Vacancy 6 Allen G. Thurman Arthur Park Area. Plumas 1 Harold J. Powers 2 Lester Thomas Davis Riverside 37 Nelson S. Dilworth 76 Philip L. Boyd Please write to the representative in Sacramento 19 Earl W. Edsmond 8 Chester F. Gannon whose district you reside. Follow the 9 Dwight H. Stephenson instructions given in Elder Haynes' San Benito 25 Fred Weybret 32 Donald L. Grunsky article. San Bernardino 36 Ralph E. Swing 72 (San Bernardino-Ontario, R. Fred Price) Second—Religious Liberty 73 (Bloomington-Redlands- There are before our State Legisla- Needles, ture at Sacramento, California, Senate L. Stewart Hinckley) San Diego 40 Fred H. Kraft 78 Frank Luckel Bill 783 and Assembly Bill 1500. These 79 Kathryn T. Niehouse two bills are identical. We are against 80 (County outside city of these bills. They are dangerous and if San Diego, made into law would place the opera- Howard W. Cramer) tion and control of our sanitariums in San Francisco 14 Gerald J. O'Gara 19 Bernard R. Brady the hands of a political commission of 20 Thomas A. Maloney 10 men. The C.I.O. and A.F.L. unions 21 Albert C. Wollenberg are pushing this measure, which is 22 George D. Collins, Jr. even worse than a similar one defeated 23 William Clifton Berry • two years ago. Do not write yet on this 24 Edward F. O'Day matter, but wait until you receive fur- 25 Raymond W. Blosser ther word regarding it. Then write to 26 Edward M. Gaffney your State Senator and Assemblyman San Joaquin 20 Bradford S. Crittenden 11 Charles M. Weber 4 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER from your Assembly or Senatorial Dis- County Dist. Senator Dist. Assemblymen trict. 12 James E. Thorp Third—Sunday Closing Measure San Luis Obispo 29 Chris N. Jesperson 33 James W. Silliman Assembly Bill 238, State Legislature, San Mateo 21 Harry L. Parkmart 27 Richard J. Dolwig Sacramento, California. We are against Santa Barbara 31 Clarence C. Ward 37 Albert W. Robertson this bill. It was introduced by Mr. Santa Clara 18 Byrl R. Salsman 28 Robert C. Kirkwood 29 John F. Thompson Hollibaugh, but I understand he did Santa Cruz 23 H. R. Judah 32 Donald L. Grunsk' not know very much about its contents Shasta 5 Oliver J. Carter 2 Lester Thomas Davis and is not at all enthusiastic about it. Sierra 7 Vacancy 2 Lester Thomas Davis It provides for closing barber shops and Siskiyou 2 Randolph Collier 2 Lester Thomas Davis Solano 15 Thomas McCormack 5 Ernest C. Crowley barber colleges on Sunday. It is mas- Sonoma 12 Herbert W. Slater 7 Richard H. McCollister querading as a health measure and has Stanislaus 22 Hugh P. Donnelly 30 Ralph M. Brown been referred to the Committee on Pub- Sutter 10 W. P. Rich 4 Bert W. Loomis lic Health. Barber shops and colleges Tehama 8 Louis G. Sutton 3 Lloyd W. Lowrey are inspected once or twice a month. Trinity 5 Oliver J. Carter 2 Lester Thomas Davis Tulare 32 J. Howard Williams 36 Harry J. Johnson But, because they might not be in- Tuolumne 26 Jesse M. Mayo 6 Allen G. Thurman spected every Sunday, they must be Ventura 33 James J. McBride 38 John B. Cooke closed on that day so as to protect the Yolo 11 Frank L. Gordon 3 Lloyd W. Lowrey public health. Failure to inspect them Yuba 10 W. P. Rich 4 Bert W. Loomis on Monday would be no problem as Los Angeles County germs are much more active and danger- ous on Sunday than any other day!!! Los Angeles County is Senate District No. 38, and the Senator for the district Fourth—Temperance is Jack B. Tenney. The Assembly District areas given are approximate. Assembly Bill 2135 in the State Leg- Dist. Assemblymen Dist. Assemblymen islature, Sacramento, California. We are FOR this bill. Hold this item also 40 (Boyle Heights, William H. Rosenthal) 57 (Hollywood, west of Western, for later action when the signal is 41 (San Fernando and Antelope Valley, Charles J. Conrad) given. This provides for amending the Julian Beck) 58 (Wilshire-Western Area, 42 (Burbank and San Fernando Valley, Laughlin E. Waters) Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (usual- Walter R. Hinton) 59 (Beverly Hills—W. L.A., ly called the ABC act) (a) So as to give 43 (Glendale, C. Don Field) Willard M. Huyck) 44 (Downtown Los Angeles, Vacancy) a definition for "saloon" and "eating 60 (Santa Monica, M. Philip Davis) place" in harmony with the dictionary 45 (Lincoln Heights, Thomas J. Doyle) 46 (Inglewood-Redondo Beach, 61 (Culver City-Venice, definition, rather than the brewers' Glenn M. Anderson) Lester A. McMillan) definition. (b) A revision of the sec- 47 (Pasadena, Albert I. Stewart) 62 (Central and Vernon Avenues area, tion relating to evidence as to whether 48 (Altadena-Sierra Madre, Augustus F. Hawkins) a purchaser of liquor is 21 years of age. T. Fenton Knight) 63 (West Adams-USC Area, 49 (Arcadia-Pomona, Ernest R. Geddes) Don A. Allen) (c) A new section requiring adequate 50 (Covina-Whittier, Thomas M. Erwin) lighting and visibility of the interior 64 (Echo and MacArthur Parks Area, 51 (East Los Angeles-Montebello, John C. Lyons) of places where liquor is sold by the Elwynn S. Bennett) drink. 52 (Huntington Park and Vicinity, 65 (Exposition Park, John W. Evans) You will address your State Senator, Jonathan J. Hollibaugh) 66 (Vermont and Florence Ayes. Area, 53 (Alhambra and Vicinity, Gordon R. Hahn) Honorable ------c/o State Montivel A. Burke) 67 (Watts-Gardena, Clayton A. Dills) Senate, Sacramento, California. You 54 (Eagle Rock-Highland Park, 68 (Torrance-San Pedro, Vincent Thomas) will address your Assemblyman, Honor- John L. E. Collier) 69 (South Gate-Norwalk, Ralph C. Dills) able ---- c/o State Assem- 55 (Pico St. Maple to Western, 70 (East side of Long Beach, Vernon Kilpatrick) William S. Grant) bly, Sacramento, California. 56 (East Hollywood-Atwater, 71 (West side of Long Beach, F. G. ASHBAUGH. Ernest E. Debs) Carl Fletcher)

La Sierra College objective and candid report of this of Trustees under the chairmanship of splendid progress. Elder C. L. Bauer, for the time and Abridgement of report read at Pacific Prof. E. E. Cossentine was succeeded attention which they have given to the Union Conference session January 28-30. as president of La Sierra College by problems of the college. During the five years which have Prof. L. R. Rasmussen in June of 1942. Special mention should be made of elapsed since the last regular report President Rasmussen served during the the work of Prof. K. F. Ambs, business was made to the constituency on March difficult war years, until he was called manager since 1936, and of Dr. K. J. 2, 1942, La Sierra College has pro- to the General Conference Department Reynolds, who served the college for gressed in a remarkable manner, under of Education last summer. These men twenty years, first as a teacher and in the blessing of God. gave strong leadership during their recent years as Dean of the College. Having assumed office as recently as respective periods of service. On January 1 of this year he assumed the beginning of the present school A word of appreciation should be his new duties with the General Con- year, it is possible for me to present an expressed to the members of the Board lerence_Department of Education. PACIFIC :UNION RECORDER 5

Many others have served the college entered the organized work. Most of moted. The Sabbath afternoon organ effectively and well during all or a those receiving the Bachelor of Science vesper programs given by Professor and portion of the last half decade. Above degrees have already entered the medi- Mrs. Hannum each week are greatly all, we ascribe praise to God for the cal profession, appreciated. signal manner in which He has watched An Alumni organization made up of The Associated Student Body has over and abundantly blessed in the four-year degree graduates is now in been active along spiritual lines, as well upbuilding of the college. process of being established. as fostering a wholesome and loyal A milestone in the history of La In spite of war and attendant short- attitude on the part of the students Sierra College was passed in the spring ages of material and labor, some progress throughout the school. Special pro- of 1944, when approval was given by has been made in the building program grams and devices are being planned to the General Conference for full senior of the College. The most important stimulate a greater interest among our college standing. During the ensuing addition has been the new administra- students in dedicating their lives to summer, at a special meeting of tion and library building, now virtually mission service. the constituency, the necessary legal completed. Besides this larger project During the past five years a large changes were effected to implement the college has constructed during this number of students have been baptized this action. At this time the institution period a new Physical Education build- into the church. We are conscious of came under the control and ownership ing which is still uncompleted, five the function of the College as a haven of the Pacific Union Conference. Long faculty cottages, 57 units for veterans, of refuge from worldly influences, and and patient planning, particularly on (16 owned by the College and 41 as an agency for the salvation of our the part of Dean Reynolds, led to the provided under the Lanahan Act by young people. Every member of our accreditation of the four-year program the Federal Government). Besides these faculty and staff has the desire to by the Northwest Association in De- new buildings a number of additions influence our students to become true cember, 1946. Election to membership have been made to existing buildings, followers of Christ. in the Association of American Colleges and several minor units have been con- During the period under review fif- followed. structed. The new church, scheduled teen evangelistic efforts have been con- for occupancy next summer, while not ducted by ministerial students, resulting During the past five years the strictly a College project, will add much directly in twelve baptisms, and in- faculty has been enlarged and strength- to the religious life of the College directly in preparing the way for later , ened. Much remains to be done in community. decisions for Christ. The ministerial strengthening our faculty to meet the While the entire institution has students also have performed a valuable demands falling upon the institution operated with a net gain during each service in the school by their earnest in its new capacity as a senior college. of the five years, the summer months personal work for those of their fellow- Enrollment trends during the past bring a heavy drain on the gains made students who have been less spiritually five years are heartening. The numbers during the regular school year. Also, minded. enrolled in the College alone for the operating funds of necessity during the current school year represent a gain of At a time when there is a serious 110% (from 405 to 863) over the period of rapid expansion, have been and even tragic lack of qualified Bible used to a great extent for building. figures of 1942-43. The summer school teachers in our denominational Col- This has made it impossible either to during these five years has had an leges, La Sierra College has been greatly maintain operating cash reserves or to average enrollment of 221. blessed in maintaining unusual strength procure the necessary equipment to in this department. In the Preparatory Department, meet approved standards for an institu- The Preparatory Department of the where registrants have been limited in tion offering instruction at the Senior College has advanced in a strong way order to accommodate more college stu- College level. under the leadership of Principal Na- dents, the gain has been 27% (from While material things must enter our thaniel L. Parker. The academy at the - . 194 to 246) during the same period. thinking and planning in the operation present time is, to a large degree, an The Elementary School enrollment of our college, we all believe that the autonomous unit with a separate fac- increased 79% (from 164 to 293). spiritual phases of our work are of para- ulty, its own admission and registration La Sierra College has also been mount importance. I am sure that we procedures, and separate chapel and drawing its students from a wide area, are all in complete agreement with this Sabbath school services. thus creating a cosmopolitan student statement from Volume 7, page 143: The tragic fire which destroyed the population. At the present time, for "It is the degree of moral power per- Elementary School last July has made example, there are in attendance stu- vading a school that is a test of its it necessary to erect a new Elementary dents from 36 states and 16 foreign prosperity." May we who have been School building. The plans have been countries and dependencies. Whereas entrusted with the sacred task of Chris- approved and work is under way on this 62 veterans were registered in the Col- tian education never forget that this project which is being built a short dis- lege last year, 303 are now enrolled. is true. tance from the campus. Since having become a senior college, By means of a Week of Prayer each La Sierra College has made great 77 baccalaureate degrees have been semester, weekly and special prayer progress in recent years, but it still awarded by La Sierra College, 47 bands, vespers, Missionary Volunteer has many needs. Our science building being Bachelor of Arts and 30 being and Sabbath school services, student was inadequate long before the present Bachelor of Science degrees. Of the evangelistic efforts and Bible studies, the heavy influx of students occurred. This 47 receiving Arts degrees, 39 have spiritual life of the student body is pro- is an urgent matter if we are to meet 6 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER the needs of the large number of science any like period in the history of our facilities. A few figures will illustrate students at the college, and provide medical work. this growth: instruction of proper quality. Our pres- At the beginning of this period our ent cramped quarters add hours of regularly admitted capacity was 112 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 extra work to our already overburdened patients, but due to the constant de- Obstetrical Cases- science teachers. mands for more room additional space 295 375 452 451 633 La Sierra Academy, housed at the was fitted up in 1942. By 1943 our Surgical Cases- present time in the basement of Hole authorized bed capacity was 133 pa- 1657 1749 2334 2317 2862 Memorial Auditorium stands in need tients. Patronage constantly increased, of a building of its own. until in 1946 the number of patients Our obstetrical department must have Another necessity is a building where was held down because of the scarcity new quarters to meet the requirements vocational arts may be taught in a of nursing help. of the state. The operating rooms are manner commensurate with the impor- We express our gratitude to our wholly inadequate and our clinical lab- tance of these subjects in our system heavenly Father for the many mani- oratories must have new facilities. We of education. Such a building and the festations of divine guidance and are thankful that through the blessing equipment which would make possible blessings that have been given this insti- of the Lord we have been able to ac- a strong program of vocational in- tution during the trying years. When cumulate a surplus with which to build. struction on the College level ranks workers have left us or have been At Loma Linda we are endeavoring high among our present needs. called to other institutions, the Lord has to teach the principles embodied in our Our Library, measured in terms of had someone in preparation to fill the health reform message by weekly lec- volumes and periodicals, has not pro- vacancy. In spite of several changes in tures given by physicians, dietitians, gressed beyond the junior college level. our medical staff, we have been able and nurses. These programs, given in Important additions must also be made to maintain a consecrated group of well- the lounge and broadcast to the patients' to our laboratory equipment for teach- trained doctors to man our various rooms, are greatly appreciated by our ing the sciences. departments. These men have been guests. At the present time La Sierra Col- willing to work under trying conditions Two of the most valuable phases of lege is operating beyond its capacity. with a greater patient load than one our work are represented by the School This condition has resulted from our should expect. of Nursing and the chaplain's depart- anxiety to meet the educational needs ment. One is educating our young of our Adventist young people. There We have at the present time twelve physicians on our resident staff, most of women as workers in the message of the is danger in this, however, lest the third angel, and the other is giving this quality of instruction deteriorate. If whom are specializing in some chosen branch of the healing art. We have six message to those who know it not. our capacity cannot or should not be During the war years the nerve increased, wisdom dictates that reason- interns who are a great help in caring for patients. We are receiving calls energy, the physical endurance, and able limits be set to the number of Christian fortitude of every nurse were students which will be granted admis- from doctors under appointment to the mission field for special institutional tested to the limit. Our hospital and sion to the college. sanitarium were crowded beyond capa- In closing, let me repeat that we offer training—especially surgery—before go- ing abroad. As these men go—one to city. Patients were occupying beds in to God our fervent thanks for the evi- halls and alcoves. The situation was dences of Divine favor which have been Mexico, one to South America, one to China, another to Africa, and still an- complicated by a desperate shortage of seen in the work at La Sierra College qualified help. We lacked qualified during the past five years, and in fact, other to Singapore—we at Loma Linda feel a closer tie and binding interest in supervisors and registered nurses, and since its founding a quarter of a cen- consequently the acutely ill patients tury ago. We are happy to be able, in our mission fields. Also, during this strenuous period we have given $5,000 were receiving care from inexperienced full cooperation with Pacific Union nurse aides. In extreme emergencies College, our sister institution, to serve to the Rio de Janeiro Sanitarium and $25,000 to Jamaica. We thank the we took ©n three or four non-Adventists, the cause of Christian education in this three of whom we are grateful to report great field, the Pacific Union Confer- Lord for this opportunity to enlarge our field of usefulness. accepted the truth and were baptized ence. after they had worked for us for some May the Lord continue to guide and Besides our sanitarium and hospital, time. prosper these schools to the end that His this institution maintains and operates During the war program the curri- name may be glorified and His kingdom a dispensary for those who are not able culum was accelerated and the size of advanced in all the earth. to meet regular hospital rates. This our classes was increased; we admitted G. T. ANDERSON. has proved a fruitful field for mission- two classes a year. We have been grate- --0-- ary work, aside from giving much relief ful to be one of the few schools who Loma Linda Sanitarium and to the sufferings of those whom we had more applicants than could be otherwise would not reach. Hospital accepted. During the past five years During the past five-year period the we have accepted 174 students and Abridgement of report read at Pacific amount of medical work done has far graduated 100. Our present enroll- Union Conference session January 28-30. surpassed our fondest expectations. The ment is 91. The five years just past have been medical, surgical, and obstetrical de- In spite of the pressure and lack of filled with problems hardly equalled in partments have outgrown their housing personnel, we have given opportunity PACIFIC UNION RECORDER

to our nursing faculty for professional in her acceptance of all the light she Paradise Valley Sanitarium growth. Both Pacific Union College has been taught. She has sent $200 in and Hospital tithe and now is asking, "When may I and La Sierra College offered extension Abridgement of report read at Pacific courses on our campus. Many took be baptized?" Union Conference session January 28-30. these courses and some have gone on An elderly lady who had been a The War Years to college to earn their degree in nurs- Seventh-day Adventist years ago, came ing education. This has definitely for surgery. When she received her The five-year period which this re- strengthened our clinical fields and nightly care the student nurse offered port covers began less than one month teaching program. a short prayer, as all our students are after Pearl Harbor. Our faculty preparation and profes- taught to do. During that prayer the While many of those who were free sional advancement has brought results woman's heart was softened and she to do so left the San Diego area, tens in State Board returns. In 1944 21 resolved to come back to the faith she of thousands of workers with their families moved into the district. The students took the examinations and one once knew. Bible studies followed, and need for hospital service as contrasted student tied with the highest in the true to her resolve she was baptized. with our former sanitarium service was state; in 1945 one student received the That was two years ago and today she intensified, and the patronage of the highest in the state; in 1946 we re- is rejoicing in the truth and reports that institution mounted rapidly. Because ceived five A's and one student received her husband is now ready for baptism. of the pressure brought upon the insti- the second highest in the state. A well-to-do Chinese merchant from tution, the Board at its meeting held Along with the professional growth, the Republic of Panama flew to Loma February 4, 1943, voted that "because we also have strengthened the religious Linda in a serious condition. His wife, of the urgency of caring for the acutely aspects of our school. The first-year a Seventh-day Adventist, accompanied ill, the management be authorized to students, during their orientation period, him. Never before had he shown any move some of our chronic patients to are taught how to approach the patient interest in Christianity, but now he be- other institutions, and that we do not for prayer, and what spiritual topics gan to ask questions. Bible studies permanently admit any more chronic they may discuss with the patient, and were given to him by one of our stu- cases." The urgent demand for hos- how. During the second and third dents and before he left for home he pital service has continued throughout years they are directed in giving Bible was baptized. Meanwhile he had made the five-year period, and as a result studies to patients and taught how to far more improvement in health than our institution has been quite well filled ▪ give health talks. They have expe- seemed humanly possible, and has con- during the entire time. rienced the joy of seeing patients accept tinued to improve since returning home. Patronage the truth as a result of their influence This he recognizes as God's blessing in During the five-year period, 21,191 and studies. answer to prayer. This couple now patients entered our sanitarium and Elders Frank A. Moran and George have three children in school in this hospital. The peak year was 1943, W. Wells, chaplains, and Mrs. Mar- country preparing for service. with 4,948 patients booked for that guerite Williamson, Bible worker and At present a group of senior nurses year. The average length of stay dur- Mrs. Addie Schuler, part-time Bible are studying weekly with an Episco- ing the five-year period has been nearly worker, share in the work of visiting palian lady in a nearby city. She has ten days, resulting in a total of 208,654 • patients. For each they have a word now started to attend Sabbath school patient days for the period. of cheer, a Bible promise, or a word of and church and there is every reason Earnings prayer. As hearts are opened and inter- to believe that she will soon take her Business with house patients during est aroused, there is often opportunity complete stand. this time has been $2,835,574.73, an to present Christ as the healer of body Only a few patients stay long enough average of about $567,000 per year. and soul, or to conduct a few Bible to learn much of the truth, but much In addition to the charges made to studies on some phases of present truth. prejudice is broken down and much house patients, there has been a con- A young man was brought to the gospel seed sown. In the effort to fol- siderable income from out-patients, to- hospital seriously injured in an auto- low up the work thus begun we write taling $441,115.80, or an average of mobile accident. His life was despaired to each patient, offering a year's sub- about $88,000 for the five years. Add- of, but he reached out to God for help. scription to Present Truth. Enough re- ing this total to the charges made to As Chaplain Wells talked with him he plies come in to keep two to three hun- house patients, and making allowances said, "I want to be a Christian and be dred names on our Present Truth list. for discounts and charity work done, a better husband and father." Jesus We also send out a large club of Signs we find that the net business with • was uplifted and His saving grace ex- and another of Health to selected lists patients for the five years was $3;162,- tended to this poor sufferer. The man of patients. 962.12. was born again. He left, rejoicing in We earnestly solicit your prayers It should be explained that the total his new-found faith and eager to lead that Loma Linda Sanitarium may con- for any one of the five years might have his wife and little girl to God. stantly improve, and may fully do its been greater had we had a larger house About two months ago a postmistress part in preparing a people to meet the capacity, or had there been a larger from a desert town spent a few days soon-coming Saviour. staff of workers. We should stress the with us and became very enthusiastic A. D. BUTTERFIELD, M.D. latter point, as we find ourselves much over the religion she saw lived in the --o-- of the time without the necessary nurs- Loma Linda Sanitarium. Literature, "Genuine medical missionary work is ing staff to care for the total number of personal visits; and studies have resulted the gospel practiced." patients that we can accommodate. 8 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER

Operating Costs indebtedness was soon retired. Many of problems for us, for He knows that our The business manager in his report you will remember the Jubilee held in great lack is nurses—students, gradu- to the 1942 constituency meeting, noted April, 1943. ates, and supervisors. Graduates that during the year just closed there Teaching Program has been an increase in the salaries of Number of Graduates finishing at workers totaling $12,000 for the year. Paradise Valley Sanitarium during the Our plans call for a stronger ward- Apparently, that was about the begin- past five years, 64. How many are still teaching program and this is now in ning of the upward trend in wages. in the work? Fifteen working in Sani- process of execution. Our supervisory Our total pay-roll for 1946 was $436,- tariums, two working for S.D.A. doc- staff are well qualified for their positions 468.64, an increase of $62,000 over tors, ten going to college—working on in supervising the clinical experience 1945. degrees. These are approximate figures of each student, and we are hoping to In studying the general nursing wage since we do not know where many of add post-graduate nursing education costs during the five-year period, we our graduates are or what they are subjects in the near future. We lack, find that for 1943, the total was doing. however, a sufficient number of in- $51,507.00, while for 1946 it was Number who have gone to mission structors, who are really necessary to $108,412.72, an increase of about 110 fields? Two have gone to Alaska. carry on the ward-instruction program as we would like to do. per cent. This is a serious situation, but The New Nurses' Dormitory ours is not the only institution con- The Paradise Valley Sanitarium and I believe that in closing this outline fronted by the same problem. With the Hospital has made a wonderful im- marked increase of the daily charge of the five-year developments, I could provement in its training service by do no better than to call your attention made by special nurses generally, and building a new home for the student the recognized decrease in the take- to a few words found in the final para- nurses. This is a large, modern build- graph in the instructions to Paradise home pay of the average worker, we ing which will house sixty students, feel confident that this situation will Valley Sanitarium given about fifty and it is equipped with modern furni- years ago: become even more aggravated even ture throughout. though there may be some slight in- "Our brethren in charge of our sani- There are three floors. On the first tarium work must not be left destitute crease in the number of available nurses. are the recreation hall, demonstration All are aware of the general increase of sufficient means to carry on the classroom for ward practice, and two medical missionary work in an ac- in the cost of foods and other materials other classrooms, complete and up-to- consumed in providing our sanitarium ceptable way. And just now, when our date diet laboratory, two conveniently- people in Southern California are strug- service. While our board, room and arranged and comfortably furnished treatment income has increased from gling to build up a strong work in that offices for the nursing arts instructor important missionary field, we should $5.54 per patient day in 1942, to $8.52 and the supervisor of instruction. On in 1946, the increase has not been study ways and means of strengthening this floor are also located the kitchenette their hands." sufficient to cover the added costs. and dining room, treatment room, laun- Financial Status We even go far enough in this dry, sewing room and two trunk rooms. thought to suggest that you think most On January 1, 1942, our assets stood In connection with the sewing room earnestly of constructing a new sani- at $377,345.95. This figure increased weaving is being taught. tarium and a new hospital on the by $515,275.53 during the period un- On the second floor are the well- grounds which we hold, and on which der report, bringing the total to $892, appointed apartment for the dean of are found our nurses' dormitory and 621.48 at the close of 1946. The Net women, spacious and beautifully fur- the homes of our workers. A plan has Worth at the beginning of this period nished general and social parlors, a been devised whereby this can be done was $248,864.48. Our books are not large library with a browsing room and without interrupting the regular flow yet closed for 1946, but by November a teachers' reading room opening from of patients, and would leave us finally 30 this total had reached $787,724.16, the main library. The library has been with our hospital and sanitarium mod- an increase of $538,859.68. Of this brought up-to-date by the addition of ernized, under one roof, operating more increase, $269,592.93 was realized as many texts and journals in the field of smoothly and, I pray, more spiritually an operating gain. This was an average nursing education. than ever. of nearly $54,000 per year. It should The rest of the second floor and the HORACE A. HALL, M.D. be noted, however, that $115,000 of third floor are taken up with the nurses' this net gain of $269,000 was realized LOOMS. during the year 1943 alone. This is The war years have complicated our St. Helena Sanitarium and approximately 43 per cent of the total progress in the School of Nursing, as Hospital gain for the entire period, and was due they have in other professions. With in part to the fact that patronage and the exception of too few students, too Abridgement of report read at Pacific corresponding income increased very few graduates and too few supervisors, Union Conference session January 28-30. rapidly, while costs had not risen at that we have continued as in the pre-war The annual report of an institution time proportionately. It is only now years. All these factors have had their dealing in human sickness could offer that costs are beyond the bounds of influence in weakening the planned little more than matters of transient reason. educational program for the student and passing interest unless there were We began the five-year period with nurse, but we are praying that the about its work something more to a note indebtedness of $85,621. This Great Director will work out all these chronicle than statistics of diseases PACIFIC UNION RECORDER 9 treated, cures accomplished, or of un- the sanctuary and found wanting." To physicians this message was giv- improved cases, failures, and deaths "Medical Ministry," p. 164. en: "When you understand physiology occurring in the course of its activities. "As our work has extended, and in its truest sense, your drug bills will Financial gains or losses are important institutions have multiplied, God's pur- be very much smaller, and finally you for its continued existence, but even pose in their establishment remains the will cease to deal out drugs at all." these cannot answer the purpose of same. The conditions of prosperity are These are standards far above those sanitariums or hospitals established as unchanged." Vol. 6, p. 224. of physicians of the world, and require an integral and essential part of the di- If the conditions of prosperity are a more intimate knowledge of the bio- vine plan so explicitly laid out for the unchanged and we have before us the chemistry of health and disease. This work and objectives of the church of lessons of failure of the original sani- means that nothing less than the high- these last days. tarium and the first medical college est scientific and professional attain- "The Lord revealed that the pros- established by Seventh-day Adventists, ments will satisfy such a standard; in perity of the Sanitarium was not to be it certainly behooves us to inquire most fact, it must be higher than that of dependent alone upon the knowledge thoroughly into the conduct of our own others who do not have these religious and skill of its physicians, but upon the institution as to whether or not its and spiritual standards to meet. Never- favor of God. It was to be known as an managers, directors, and staff physicians theless the principal object of sani- institution where God was acknowl- and nurses are faithfully adhering to tarium work is to make known to the edged as the Monarch of the universe, "God's purpose" in its establishment. sick the message of salvation and the an institution that was under His special imminent consummation of the plan of supervision. Its managers were to make Feeling that we should make sure the salvation in the return of Christ to God first and last and best in every- work of the St. Helena Sanitarium and end the reign of sickness, sin and death. thing. And in this was to be its strength. Hospital is fully following God's plan Sanitarium work is an integral part of If conducted in a manner that God as given through the Spirit of prophecy, the religious work of Seventh-day Ad- could approve, it would be highly suc- the medical staff five months ago began ventists. cessful, and would stand in advance of a detailed study of the pattern divinely The war years have taxed the sani- all other institutions of the kind in the given for the sanitarium work. In this tarium beyond its capacity. We have world. Great light, great knowledge, they were joined by dietitians, leading not been able to admit all who have and superior privileges were given. And nurses, and others. All have freely applied. Now, over a year and a half in accordance with the light received taken part. This study is now being after the close of the war, this situation would be the responsibility of those to carried to the entire family of Sani- still exists. The figures for the past two whom the carrying forward of the insti- tarium workers in the thirty-minute years show the total number of patients tution was entrusted." Vol. 6, pp. 223, weekly meetings each Sunday morning. admitted, their average length of stay, 224. While some who come and go as and the daily average. "It should ever be kept prominent patients may not catch the fuller vision 1946 1945 that the great object to be attained of the divine plan for the redemption of To date To date through this channel is not only health, body and soul, yet nearly all remark this year last year but perfection and the spirit of holiness, of the spiritual atmosphere so different Patient weeks 6,537 6,323 which cannot be attained with diseased from that of the ordinary hospital. A Patient days 45,760 44,263 bodies and minds. This object cannot few weeks ago the husband of one of Number of patients be secured by working merely from the the surgical patients grasped my hand entered 4,540 3,489 worldling's standpoint. God will raise and said, "Doctor, I came here with a Daily average 123.3 121 up men and qualify them to engage in chip on my shoulder—in fact, on both Average length of stay the work, not only as physicians of the shoulders—but it's gone now." in days 10.07 12.5 body, but of the sin-sick soul, as spir- Another principle given us by divine The number of physicians on the itual fathers to the young and inexperi- enunciation is that the work of the medical staff has not been large enough enced." Vol. 1, p. 554. Sanitarium should be educational in to care adequately for the large number "Our health institutions are of value character. This means that the phy- of bed patients and the office or out- in the Lord's estimation only when He sician should take time to explain to patient attendance. A minimum of six is allowed to preside in their manage- the sick the cause of his illness, the physicians caring for patients is neces- ment. If His plans and devisings are changes in his habits necessary in order sary. Much of the time there have been regarded as inferior to plans of men, for him to recover, and what he must only four. During all the war years He looks upon these institutions as of do to keep well. This cannot be done there has been also a shortage of nurs- no more value than the institutions in a minute, or by merely handing him ing personnel. We greatly appreciate established and conducted by world- a prescription for medicine, or ordering the faithfulness of the nursing staff. lings. God cannot indorse any insti- some drug to cover up his distress or Just recently the director of nurses and tution unless it teaches the living princi- pain. According to the Testimonies of the training school for nurses was ples of His law and brings its own given for the guidance of Seventh-day called to connect with the Sanitarium actions into strict conformity to these Adventist physicians, God's plan for and Hospital at Seoul, Korea. Her precepts. Upon those institutions that the treatment of the sick requires a place has not yet been filled. are not maintained according to His most painstaking and detailed study of The St. Helena Sanitarium is in law, He pronounces the sentence: 'Un- physiology and the forces of nature by urgent need of new modern buildings. accepted; weighed in the balances of which to combat disease. The plans for new construction have 16 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER

gone through prolonged study, altera- nurse shortage. The available supply and connected with the Institute of Ex- tion, and final approval. We hope build- of technicians, secretaries, and other perimental Medicine, telephoned the ing conditions will permit these plans workers has not been sufficient to meet boy's attending physician, informing to be carried forward early this year. the needs at all times. As an additional him that we were aware of a possible The Sanitarium is recognized by the means of meeting the shortage of quali- cure for this type of poisoning. The at- American College of Surgeons and the fied personnel in the nursing field the tending physician, who had never heard American Medical Association as meet- White Memorial Hospital is giving of a way of specifically counteracting ing their requirements for medical resi- very serious consideration to the estab- bichloride poisoning, was very cooper- dent experience and training. lishment of a school for the training ative and immediately sent the patient G. K. ABBOTT. of hospital attendants. to the White Memorial Hospital for At the close of the fiscal year 1946, treatment. Doctor Levine managed to White Memorial Hospital fifteen interns were in training, and obtain two vials of "BAL" (British Anti- Abridgement of report read at Pacific sixteen residents were assigned to the Lewisite), the specific used against this Union Conference session January 28-30. various services in the hospital. type of poisoning, originally worked out While the White Memorial Hospital Eighty-nine student nurses are in to counteract Lewisite gas poisoning. is not technically owned and operated training. Under the directorship of When the boy entered the hospital, by the Pacific Union Conference, yet Mrs. Mary Monteith, the School of forty-eight hours had elapsed from the we are in your midst and I assure you Nursing is seeking to train Christian time the poison was taken, and accord- that the administration and worker nurses who shall be well qualified to ing to past experience with this poison- family greatly appreciate the interest occupy positions of trust in our denom- ing, a fatal outcome was inevitable. taken in the institution and the support inational work, both in the homeland (Continued on page 16) given to it by the officers and constitu- and overseas. In recent returns from ency of the Pacific Union Conference. the California State Board examination The White Memorial Hospital, with and the examination in denominational Southern California DAVID VOTE', Pres. R. G. Law's, Sec. its varied interests, is probably the most principles given by the Medical De- 3131 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles 31, Calif. complex medical institution within our partment of the General Conference, CApitol 6136 ranks. It comprises the clinical division graduates of the White Memorial Hos- of the School of Medicine of the Col- pital School of Nursing made a very lege of Medical Evangelists. Also cen- creditable record. TEEN-AGERS YOUTH tered here as units of the College of Of the various lines of interesting ATTENTION Medical Evangelists are the Graduate work going on in the White Memorial School of Medicine, the School of Nurs- Hospital, particular attention may be Announcing a new radio broad- ing, the School of Laboratory Tech- called to the care of cases of infantile cast especially for you nology, the School of X-ray Technology, paralysis. Dr. Fred B. Moor and sev- The and the School of Physical Therapy, as eral members of his staff have special Voice of Youth well as the White Memorial Clinic. qualifications for the care of these cases, Each of these schools is approved by its having received training in this specific KGER SUNDAY 1390 kc respective accrediting body. field at the Mayo Clinic and the Uni- 11:05 For the fiscal year ending June 30, versity of Minnesota. During the epi- LISTEN EVERY SUNDAY 1946, the White Memorial Hospital demic of poliomyelitis last summer, as admitted 8,716 patients, with a daily a part of its moral responsibility to the in-patient average of 143.9. The aver- community the hospital allocated an in- Burbank Master Comrade age length of stay was 8.2 days. The creased number of beds to the care of Investiture total patient business for the year post-infantile paralysis cases. Our de- On Friday evening, February 14, in amounted to $1,240,100.53, which is a nominational emphasis upon physical the Burbank church, seven candidates, slight increase in total income over the therapy fits the institution in a special were invested as Master Comrades, one previous year. $17,513.31 represents way to render an important service to as a Companion, and one as a Friend, the charity service given by the institu- patients thus afflicted. Our service in in a most impressive service. tion during that year. The present nor- this field has received much favorable Present to invest the candidates was mal bed capacity is 186. A new ped- comment. Elder J. 13. Nelson, M.V. secretary of iatric unit, just being opened, will in- Many cases of personal interest arc the union conference, assisted by Elder crease the number of hods to 215. Fur- admitted to a city hospital the size of Miller Brockett, newly elected M.V. ther additions to the bed capacity are the White Memorial Hospital. One secretary of the Southern California not contemplated on the present site, such case involved a two-and-a-half-year- conference. Special guest was Elder although additional beds are sorely old boy who was reported by one of the Lohne, M.V. secretary of the North- needed in all departments. metropolitan newspapers as dying of ern European Division. There has been little if any relief mercury poisoning after having swal- The success and growth of this im- from the critical shortage of trained lowed four tablets of bi-chloride of portant phase of church activity is hospital personnel, particularly nurses, mercury. One-half tablet is sufficient due primarily to the able and enthus- following the World War II. It has to cause death in a child. Upon read- iastic leadership of Miss Verna Mann, been necessary to limit the number of ing this news item Dr. Milton Levine of club president, who at the close of the patients admitted on occasion, due to the faculty of the School of Medicine service was presented with a set of the PACIFIC UNION RECORDER 11

1947 Reading Course books as a token your prayers that as we continue to thank offering, and a few days later he of appreciation by the club members. grow we may have the same faith and gave another $100. The total membership of the organi- confidence that marked our work in God still lives and reigns. Expe- zation now stands at twenty-four and more humble days. riences like these are challenging. They this number will be increased next W. C. LOVELESS. should be a charge to every Christian May when a similar service will be to seek God more earnestly.—E.W.E. conducted. At that time a large num- Northern California ber of Friends and Companions will News Notes also receive their pins as a result of the W. A. NELSON, Pres. F. T. OAKES, Sec In recent weeks the following addi- excellent progressive class work being 1811 11th Ave., P.O. Box 149, Oakland 4, Calif. tions by baptism have been made to the carried on in the church school by the Telephone Kellog 4-1710 following churches: Fair Oaks 5; Sac- teacher, Miss Vione Hendrix. ramento Central 4; Upper Lake 4; Rich- It is indeed an inspiration to be asso- mond 9; San Andreas 14; Oakland Cen- ciated with a church that is carrying forward such a strong program in this Uld tral 3; and East Oakland 1. important field of service. ORLEY M. BERG, Pastor. Another worker and his family, of tedicated io the Northern California Conference, have severed ties with the homeland. Attention In Foci Brother and Sister Ira Schultz, who All Church Medical Missionary labored in Antioch for the past two years, and son, John, are at this writing Secretaries en route to New York City. Their plane and leaves for Johannesburg, Africa, March All Pastors of the Log 2 where Brother Schultz will engage in Southern California Conference Oakland—KROW 960 kc evangelism among the natives. This daily except Saturday 7:30 p.m. couple will be missed by the members You are cordially invited and Berkeley—KRE 1400 kc of the church they served, by the urgently requested to attend a Monday through Friday 1:30 p.m. workers of the conference, and their dinner meeting at the San Francisco—KSFO 560 kc host of friends. We wish them God- Cafeteria Sunday 5:30 p.m. speed on their journey and the bless- of the Sacramento—KCRA 1340 kc ings of the Lord as they continue to Monday through Friday, 2:30 p.m. Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital labor for souls in another section of the Eureka—KHUM 1240 kc vineyard. Sunday evening, March 9, 6:30. Monday, Wednesday, Friday 3 : 30 p.m. Tune In—Tell Others—Write Us. Chico Rally Advancement Mail address: The Quiet Hour, Box 207, Oakland 4, California. Six hundred gathered at the Veterans' The last three years our educational Memorial Hall on Sabbath afternoon work in Southern California has gone and evening, February 15. In spite of forward steadily. When it looked as A Prayer Reward! rain outside, there was enthusiasm and though all advancement must be cur- Our faith is strengthened and we joy inside, as we listened to a feast of tailed during the dark war days and are encouraged as we witness the special music from all the M.V. so- when all building materials were highly mighty manifestations of God's miracle- cieties represented. The leaders from restricted, God stretched out His mighty working power. Just recently a busi- the M.V. societies at Chico, Orland, arm and made it possible for us to n:ssman asked the Quiet Hour to pray Corning, Los Molinos, Redding, Para- have the greatest building program in for his daughter who had been con- dise, Willows, Gridley, Yuba City, and the history of the educational work in fined to a mental institution. The Brownsville were present, and each gave this conference. We have built five Quiet Hour staff and the Prayer League a preview of what his society was plan- new schools and remodeled seven members met on Thursday evening, at ning. It was thrilling to learn of the others. an appointed time in prayer for this emphasis that was placed on soul win- Today we enjoy the highest enroll- request. We appealed to the Great ning as their outstanding objective. ment in our church schools that we Physician for the restoration of the Evangelist A. 0. Sage from Oakland have ever experienced. The enroll- woman's mind. was the guest speaker and delivered a ment in grades one through eight has God heard our petitions and worked ringing message to the youth on the climbed steadily and now we have speedily. Ten days after we had prayed, dangers of "These Times." He issued 2,115 students enrolled in the grades. the father of the afflicted daughter came a challenge to the youth to give God a The three academies have an additional to the office of the Quiet Hour, rejoic- chance to take their lives and use them 561 students, making a grand total of ing. He told us that two days after we in His service; and to leave sin alone. 2,676. This is a tremendous respon- had prayed, his daughter was com- Discussion of a regional M.V. associ- sibility resting upon the teachers of our pletely restored and permitted to leave ation led to the forming of such a group conference to train these boys and girls the institution and go home. He pre- with David DuBose of Paradise as for the kingdom. We ask an interest in sented the Quiet Hour with $100 as a president. A vesper service, conducted 12 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER by Sam Rutan, minister from Paradise, in hand to continue the quartet on each own terms. You may make it for any concluded the Sabbath services. broadcast. amount to be paid on any date you set. A delicious cafeteria supper was pro- KALL, the newest radio station in vided by the M.V. societies represented. Salt Lake City, is fully equipped to The proceeds will be used by this newly give modern help to the broadcaster. Central California organized association in missionary Those who are in the area of this R. C. BASER, Pres. S. DONALDSON, Sec. work. The activities of the evening, program are invited to listen and tell 435 North Third St., San Jose, Calif. including a program and motion pic- others. Wherever you may live if you Telephone Columbia 5166 ture, were climaxed by a grand march. have a friend in this section remember Everyone went home with a smile of this—a personal letter from you inviting News Items joy as he thought back over the bless- your friend to tune in to the broadcast The seventh biennial session of the ings of this first regional M.V. rally. is the best advertisement we could ask. Central California Conference and of B. W. MATTISON. If you would like Radio logs or further the Conference Association were held information please write to the Prophetic in the Fresno English church February Story, Box 21, Salt Lake City, Utah. 17 and 18. Reports from the various Amateur Hour Your prayers in behalf of this new departments of the conference were Sponsored by program are sincerely solicited. We presented and officers for both the con- Associated Missionary Volunteers urge you to pray that God's word may ference and the association, together of the East Bay Area advance in this great city. with members of the conference com- --- W. L. HESSELTINE. mittee, were elected for the ensuing Vocal and Instrumental Numbers, term. We believe our members through- Readings Southeastern California out the field will be glad to know that --- H. H. Hrcxs, Pres. CHAS. J. NAGELE, Sec. no changes were made in our confer- Westlake Junior High Audi- 9707 Magnolia Ave., Telephone Riverside 9012 ence officers or the departmental secre- Mail Address, Box 584, Arlington, Calif. torium, 26th and Harrison Sts., taries. These are as follows: President, Oakland R. C. Baker; secretary-treasurer, Scott MARCH 8, 7:30 P.M. New Boarding Academy Donaldson; Book and Bible House, Our Great Day of Opportunity W. F. Van Atta; educational, W. L. AU Invited—Admission Free More important than any vote you Avery; home missionary, Walter Lind; have ever cast is the one you will make publishing, Arthur Reiswig, assisted by on this coming Sabbath, March 8, C. L. Williams and C. C. Stoner; Nevada-Utah when the conference-wide offering for religious liberty, R. C. Baker; Sabbath the San Pasqual Academy is taken. school and temperance, K. H. Wood. R. A. SMITHWICIC, Pres. E. A. SCHMIDT, Sec. P.O. Box 139, Sugarhouse Station Your offering or pledge will be your The office of medical secretary was left Salt Lake City 5, Utah vote and by this you will determine open for the conference committee largely whether or not your school will to fill. open this September. Elder M. L. Andreasen brought a New Broadcast in Salt Lake City; PLEASE CONSIDER: most inspiring message to those present "The Prophetic Story" 1. That the two college boards voted at the constituency meeting on the eve- The first broadcast of the new radio not to receive any new academy stu- ning of February 17. His message was program in Salt Lake City was held dents in their dormitories next year be- based on Malachi 4:4-6. Sunday morning February 23. This cause of the crowded college enroll- program, "The Prophetic Story" will ment. There is no room for academy Elder 0. R. Rees reports a visit to come over radio station KALL every students. Dunlap and that he found a nice num- Sunday morning at nine. 2. The opportunity of patterning a ber keeping the Sabbath and preparing The broadcast is under the direction school program as fully as God gives us for baptism as the result of a lay effort of W. L. Hesseltine, pastor, of the Salt wisdom to understand it, after his own and a branch Sunday school being held. Lake City church. Brother Andrew plan of education. Higgins of Provo is assisting. 3. The privilege of building in the Members of the Oakhurst church As is indicated by the name, "The beauty of this sheltered valley a small write us of special blessings which have Prophetic Story," a special effort is be- school for your children where they been experienced in their church in ing made to put the message in a nar- will associate with teachers in a pro- recent Sabbaths. Wrongs were made rative form, which is hoped will interest gram designed for health and spiritual right and a renewal of their consecration many. The opening story was entitled and mental growth. vows were made. This church is look- "Attacked by Infidels." This was the PLEASE REMEMBER: ing forward with courage. story of the Bible's power to withstand 1. That God has promised, if we the continued attacks of skeptics through pray in faith, to "open the way before If some one who attended the con- the centuries. us" to build this "small school" in this stituency meeting in Fresno on February The radio group was very happy to "retired spot." Your financial steward- 17 and 18 finds that he has a good include on the program the singing of ship may be one of the ways He wants black overcoat, almost new, which does the "King's Heralds" radio quartet by to open for this school. not belong to him, he should get in transcription. Sufficient recordings are 2. Your pledge may be made on your touch with Elder C. F. Lickey, 456 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER 13

Ruthven Avenue, Palo Alto. The coat series of articles in 1945 which covered, me that I may turn completely around was hanging in the information booth at least in part, the following churches and make a stand for God through the and was removed from there. -Elder and movements: Presbyterian; Anglo- truth." Lickey is very anxious to find his over- Israelite (March, 1945); Christadelph- "I am not an Adventist, but I want coat, as well as a hat which he lost ian; Pentecostal (April); Lutheran; to be one. I think they surely must be some months ago at a San Jose meet- Protestant Episcopal (May); Congrega- God's chosen people for they prosper ing. L.P.W. tional; Disciples (June); Mormons so in everything they do. I attended an --0-- (July); Baptist (August); Jehovah's Adventist church in Florida last winter Dorcas Federation Notice Witnesses (September); Roman Cath- and was amazed, when they started The district Federated Dorcas society olic (October); Christian Science (No- their campaign to raise funds for mis- of the churches of Modesto, Salida, vember). sions, to see how everyone responded Hughson, Turlock, Oakdale, Water- These articles were written by Bible to the call. So may we all heed the call ford, Sonora, and Groveland will hold instructors in attendance at the S.D.A. and be His children." the regular quarterly meeting in the Theological Seminary as a special proj- "Thank you so much for the lovely Adventist church in Oakdale Thurs- ect in their class work. The series proved book you sent me, 'The True Sabbath.' day, March 20. to be most popular and helpful. Many It is a wonderful book and explains This will be an all-day meeting, from Ministry readers expressed their appre- everything so simply and is so easily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; with potluck dinner ciation for the information contained understood. Since studying about the at noon and a demonstration of health- therein. true Sabbath I have talked with repre- ful cookery during the noon hour. Re- Students of later classes also prepared sentatives of two denominations. Both ports from all Dorcas societies will be studies on other churches, and these are tell me that the commandments have given in the morning session. now being published as a second series, been done away with. Of course I The theme of the day's program is starting with the February, 1947, issue know they are wrong and their teach- to be Healthful Cookery. Be sure to of The Ministry. The following denom- ing is in direct contradiction to the make your plans early, Dorcas sisters. inations and sects will be surveyed; teachings of the Bible. I have always The brothers are also welcome. All Unity or Fillmoreism; Buchmanism known I was bound to keep the Sab- should attend this meeting. (Oxford Group Movement); Latter bath as one of the Ten Commandments, Remember the date, Thursday, Day Saints; Doukhobors (Spiritual but I thought that in keeping Sunday March 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wrestlers); Unitarian Church; Pente- I was keeping the Sabbath. I can see MRS. E. J. CADWALLADER, Secretary. costal Assemblies; Eastern Orthodox now that I was pretty ignorant. Please --0-- Church; British-Israelism; Baptists; Je- pray for me." hovah's Witnesses; Christian Science; "I truly thank God for the privilege Wawona Camps and Unitarianism; also the tongues of studying your Bible Course. Lesson Youth throughout Central California movement. 14 was and is a great blessing to me will be interested to know that plans Although The Ministry is primarily since it taught me much about suffer- are already going forward for another for ministers, teachers, Bible instructors, ing for Jesus. Last Sabbath I went to outstanding camping season at our and medical missionaries, a miscellan- church for the first time. It was such beautiful Wawona Camp located in eous group of lay preachers, church a blessing to me that I decided to go Yosemite National Park. elders, and other missionary-minded again today. May God richly bless you The tentative dates for the camps church members are also receiving its for leading me into this wonderful light this year are: monthly visits. The journal is pub- of the true Sabbath. Pray for me that Boys' Junior Camp„ June 24 to July 3 lished by the Review and Herald, I might do His will at all times and Senior Camp, July 6 - 13 Takoma Park, 12, D.C., and the price know His voice when He speaks." Girls' Junior Camp, July 15 - 24 is $2 a year. Back numbers of the 1945 --0-- Mark the dates on your calendar, and series are available for most of the if you are between the ages of 10 and Temperance months at twenty cents a copy. Friends of Temperance, and parti- 35, start planning now to attend one of these camps. cularly conference workers and church officers will be interested in an advance We are interested in hearing from Forward in Alia notice of the forthcoming Temperance Master Comrades and others who would THE issue of the Signs of the Times like to serve as counselors during one that will IVIDICIE olF be available early in June. or more camps. GLENN FILLMAN. IPIROIPIH IDLY It may seem unnecessary to say any- "Mr Mesa's% thing about this issue so far in advance, M. Studies on Other Denominations iiitaeao but we need to remind ourselves con- What Adventist preacher, Bible in- 1111 Box St Los Angeles 53. C.li tinually that the liquor situation de- structor, or missionary layman has not mands greater effort than ever before. at some time or other had to meet the "Your Bible course certainly has I understand that two million copies problem of working for people of other helped me greatly. I was upon the are being printed this year. Of course churches, sects, or "isms," and fervently fence. Now I am beginning to see the we cannot use all of the two million wished that he knew more about the light. I have been a Sabbath breaker copies in our union for that must be beliefs of those for whom he labors? ever since 1915, and I am determined spread over the United States and The Ministry magazine published a to stop. I want you to please pray for Canada, but I invite all of our workers 14 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER to begin thinking and planning early term of service in Canada. He was ordained Fort SALE.—Lot 48 x 150. Two three-room for the greatest Temperance Signs cam- in 1907. His work included the presidency houses, modern, one furnished, one partly of the Maritime, Quebec, and Manitoba Con- furnished. Two garages, one can be made into paign we have ever conducted. ferences. large room or apartment; six shade trees, The annual consumption of alcoholic In 1923 he was called to become chaplain one fig tree. Small chicken house. Price, beverages has increased over 90% since in the Loma Linda Sanitarium. His service $5,850. Walking distance to college and was cut short in January, 1924, by ill health. school at La Sierra. A. W. DeLong, 11191 the trade was legalized. The truth about From that time to the end of his life he was Mountain Ave., Arlington, Calif. beverage alcohol will not be printed in able to do active service only in brief periods. the public press that is being subsidized He bore with patience the extreme suffering WANTED.--Board, room, and loving care to the extent of eighty million or more tha was his lot for the greater part of 23 for two small children. Boy two, girl is four. years. He leaves his wife, two sons, one a year by liquor advertising. Must be good Christian home within 40-mile daughter, six grandchildren, and a brother. radius of Los Angeles. Excellent remuneration. It will be the task of the church of Elder E. H. Adams conducted the final Communicate at once with Milton Yarnell. the living God to carry on this holy services, assisted by Elders H. H. Hicks, Phone Cleveland 7-3775; address 5125 Caspar war against vice and intemperance. L. E. Niermeyer, and Wm. Guthrie. Ave., Los Angeles 41, Calif. Abraham Lincoln made a statement HEss—Sister Charlotte Hess was born Fore SALE.--Good three-bedroom home with which we need to remember these days, Dec. 17, 1854, in Sonoma City, Calif.; and den and basement.. Three acres, citrus grove, "Liquor may have defenders, but it has went to her rest near Healdsburg, Calif., walnuts, peaches, apricots, berries, garden, and no defense." Nov. 28, 1946, being almost 92 years old. chicken equipment for 1000 layers. Less than We are at the present time organiz- Since the year 1888 when she joined the three miles from Loma Linda. $10,000 will Seventh-day Adventist Church, Sister Hess handle. Write to Box 378, Loma Linda, Calif. ing the forces of our church for a vigor- had been a faithful member. She served as ous fight against this monstrous evil. deaconess until her strength would no longer WANTED.—An all-round candy maker for The Temperance Signs is one of the permit. Her long life was characterized by a wholesale and retail factory in Oakland. Very spirit of willing service. She loved her Lord good opportunity for the man who knows the best and most effective methods of edu- and was loyal to the church. She leaves three cating our friends and neighbors to the candy business and is willing to work. Sconza daughters, Mrs. 011ie Hart, Mrs. Carolee Candy Co., 916 36th St., Oakland, Calif. evils of intoxicating liquor. Norman, and Miss Myrtle Hess; two grand- In the Los Angeles Times of Feb- children; three sisters, Mrs. Lily Price, Mrs. Carry Armstrong, and Mrs. Ida Hutchins; WILL BOARD a Christian boy 9 to 13 years ruary 16, a city news editorial states, and one brother, Harry Searles. old, in lovely home. Will attend church school "Majority found dissatisfied with State with our 12-year-old son. For information liquor situation. One-third of those GRUBB—Addie Esther Trubey Grubb was address Mrs. Lloyd Holmes, 4844 Allendale Ave., Oakland 2, Calif. polled describe it as 'very bad' and only born in Bull City, Kans., Jan. 10, 1880; and died at Sanitarium, Calif., Jan. 13., 1947. one-eighth voice approval." This is She had resided in California for 52 years. FOR SALE.—Sheet music songs, "Above the the result of a state-wide poll which has Sister Grubb was ever ready to lend a helping Clouds," "Possess Thou Me, 0 Lord," "Dawn just been released by the American Re- hand to those in need. She had strong faith of a Perfect Day," with violin obbligato; at search Service of Los Angeles. in God and a bright hope for a part in the the special price for a limited time of three resurrection of the just. She is survived by her for $1. Single copies 40 cents. Address Leona When we consider that in 1945 ten mother, Mrs. Saphronia Trubey, in her 94th Bradley Coddington, composer of songs that billion quarts of alcoholic beverages year; her daughter, Mrs. Edna Williamson, cheer, 4036 14th Ave., Sacramento 17, Calif. were consumed, it will be apparent that and a granddaughter. all the friends of Temperance have a FOR SALE.--Eight-room house on half acre work to do. This same year, that is HADLEY—Frank J. Hadley was born Dec. beautifully terraced land. Garage in basement. 20, 1879; and fell asleep in Jesus at San Large chicken house, large garden, rose garden. 1945, seven billion, seven-hundred mil- Fernando, Calif., Jan. 11, 1947. In 1922, nine fruit trees, grapes, youngberries and lion dollars was expended for legalized under the ministry of Elder Philip Knox, he strawberries. $6,000 for quick sale. Box 265, liquor and almost a similar amount for accepted the Sabbath message, and was ever Angwin, Calif. illegal liquor according to the United loyal and consecrated. States Department of Commerce. SCHRII LO Aero Tool Engineering Company It is evident that repeal did not do is accepting applications for work in our tool ADVERTISEMENTS and gauge departments. The job with a away with bootlegging. future, good working conditions, Sabbaths off. Begin now, workers, brethren, and Reference from the conference president must Write or phone immediately for application sisters, thinking and planning and pray- accompany request for advertising space in the or appointment. Prefer applicants from Los ing for the greatest Temperance Signs RECORDER. Angeles area because of housing. 8715 Melrose Advertisements are accepted for one inser- Ave., Los Angeles 46, Calif. Phone BR of the Times campaign in our denomi- tion only. Rate: $1.00 for fifty words or less. 2-3354. national history. Cash must accompany the advertisement. F. G. ASHBAUGH. Real estate sale advertisements are acceptable BUSINESS TRAINING.—Take a complete busi- from owners when referring to one specific ness training in a business college owned and property. The RECORDER address is Box 116, operated by a Seventh-day Adventist. Gregg OBITUARIES Angwin, Calif. and Thomas shorthand, accounting, comptom- etry, typewriting, P.B.X., etc. Day and eve- SKINNER—George Howe Skinner was born WANTED.—Registered Pharmacist, S.D.A., ning classes. Ralph Prout, president, Glendale Feb. 19, 1880, in Chicago, Ill.; and passed for Hamilton Drug Store, 205 E. Second St., College of Business, 120 So. Glendale Ave., to his rest Jan. 8, 1947, at Loma Linda, Calif. Pomona, Calif. Full-time work, good pay. Glendale 5, Calif. Phone CItrus 3-7203 or He accepted the third angel's message in 1898; Apply in person. 2-0617. and from 1899 to 1902 attended Union Col- lege. He entered the gospel ministry in NOTE.—I can buy for you at a substantial WANTED.—Want secretary for optometrist's Nebraska, going from there to Iowa. He was discount: furniture, rugs, and clothing. Con- office. Five-day week. Experience not re- united in marriage to Clarissa A. Pringey, tact me at 124 East 7th St., Los Angeles. quired. 5330 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, and shortly after entered upon an 18-year Phone Tucker 6945. E. McMann. Calif. Phone Los Angeles 0757.

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CARL CARLSEN, THE MOVER.-Local and Hours Orders Deliveries Hours Orders Deliveries long distance moving; also crating, packing, and shipping. Phone HUmboldt 3131. H. Wiles 33 102.75 75.90 ARIZONA 3200 King St., Berkeley, Calif. V. Wister 32 44.15 11.45 L. HARDING, Pub. Sec. N. Buckley 31 248.90 72.50 H. Barbaret 44 $282.70 $ 68.75 J. Reed 30 125.00 56.40 Harriet Day 16 74.50 9.00 FOR SALE OR TRADE.-Large lot in La Sierra E. Schwengel 27 26.50 26.50 J. Gross 5 14.75 14.75 business center, half block from bus; half mile H. Frapwell 24 20.00 20.00 Ellen Handley 12 7.75 7.75 from college, new church school, new church, L. Booth 20 88.25 41.05 G. Hovard 42 405.55 202.60 and post office. Want equity in property in San M. Reffett ______19 48.80 11.22 D. Washington 21 138.25 13.50 Luis Obispo County. Address M. H. Ster- E. Bell 35 67.25 96.85 0. Williams 8 46.60 ling, 615 14th St., Paso Robles, Calif. D. Smith 14 32.90 31.15 R. Bacon 13 84.91 46.69 7 Colporteurs 148 $970.10 $316.45 WANT TO BuY small ranch, 10 to 15 acres, Mrs. Bruland 12 81.90 14.90 with buildings. Wish part to be planted in SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA M. Craig 10 68.55 21.75 fruit and nuts and have natural water. Prefer G. H. CARTER, Pub. Sec. P. Pickard 10 43.75 43.75 Auburn, Paradise section. Write full details Margaret Roan 29 $ 92.00 $ 80.00 M. Frye 8 25.90 61.75 and price to Box 62, Sanitarium, Calif. Jessie Mallett 20 59.00 J. Castillo 6 40.00 23.08 C. Elusheen 5 24.00 24.00 F. Roehrig 54 235.14 112.71 C. Grandon 15 78.45 13.10 FOR SALE.-About 25 acres, 20 cleared, 5 in T. Miller 2 11.95 18.65 oak trees. Twenty-nine miles from Paradise H. Pickel 18 26.50 26.50 Ruth Howard _ 17 66.00 110.00 Lucile Hopping 11 83.37 Valley Sanitarium on highway 94. $200 per M. Blackburn 14 15.70 15.70 acre. E. J. Banks, Dulzura, Calif. F. Seymour 9 12.90 12.90 Mrs. Blackman 6 30.00 42.00 Katy Elliott 6 38.00 25 Colporteurs 561 $2,095.96 $1,236.84 Blanche Glover 6 25.20 HELP WANTED.-Man 30 to 45 years old G. Couron 19 77.50 14.35 • to drive school bus and help with school NORTHERN CALIFORNIA F. Johnson 28 85.45 11.85 maintenance. Steady denominational work, A. G. SUTTON, Pub. Sec. Mrs. S. Dahl 11 31.75 6.89 good pay and consideration. Write to Glen- A. Wolfsen 89 $137.50 $137.50 June Bensen 9 22.00 dale Union Academy, 700 Kimlin Dr., Glen- R. Griffin 77 158.60 158.60 Mrs. W. DeLand _ 9 2 00 2.00 dale 6, Calif. A. & M. Russell 74 177.00 177.00 Mrs. Couron 1 10.00 H. & H. Payne 67 94.50 94.50 WANT woman for light housework for J. Brisbon 54 337.53 337.53 15 Colporteurs 243 $730.29 $598.47 woman alone. In La Sierra, Arlington, Cali- H. Manson 49 178.75 178.75 fornia. Bus, new church, post office and C. Whitney 46 42.50 42.50 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA store, one block. Write Mrs. M. Sterling, G. Novak' 45 27.50 27 50 C. L. FINNEY, Pub. Sec. 615 14th St., Paso Robles, Calif. H. Rathbun 44 129.75 129.75 Anna Gully __ 50 $112.00 $112.00 W. Mauk 42 82.75 82.75 Ethel Anderson ______30 15.00 15.00 HOUSE WANTED.-Widow with boy 16 years H. Witherspoon 42 106.75 106.75 Beth Bristol 29 40.70 40.70 old would like small furnished house with yard, W. Gully 40 167.25 167.25 F. Temple 33 154.90 154.90 in country or small community near Adventist Ruth Miller 36 55.30 55 30 Gladys Milton __ 31 134.75 159.30 academy and near transportation to work. We H. Robbins 35 86.75 86.75 Helen Haynes 100 95.60 95.60 are not Adventists but we are interested. We W. Harris _ 32 10.00 10.00 C. Swan _ 43 420.00 162.20 do not smoke or drink and can furnish A-1 G. Kelm 31 368.86 368.86 L. Kent 36 31.75 31.75 references. Write 572 Calle Abronia Aurita, Mrs. M. Stasney _ 28 39.00 39.00 M. Whitehead 35 139.10 139.10 Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. M. Saulsbury 27 50.00 50.00 F. Cook 32 28.80 36.55 Charlotte Chase 26 27.50 27.50 Florence Pomeroy 29 109.00 52.03 52.03 Edith Heldoorn _ 28 167.60 103.80 FOR SALE.-Country grocery with living W. Myers 24 22 72.25 72.25 Mrs. M. Schroeder. 28 182.65 40.80 quarters. Gross over $4,000 per month. In- P. Thomas 21 19.75 19.75 D. Dirksen 28 150.10 150.10 terior of home needs finishing. $10,000 cash Mrs. L. Morel 20 2.00 2 00 Jean Nolan 27 93.25 82.45 includes stock and fixtures. Immediate pos- R. Reynolds Mrs. V. Fields 15 40.00 40.00 Evelyn McAlear 26 4.00 28.00 session. Near La Sierra College. Route 2 C. Townsend _ 13 33.64 33.64 Ethelyn Kangas 25 53.75 21.50 Box 280, Arlington, Calif. H. Wilcox 3 55.23 55.23 Mrs. B. Hill 24 43.70 35.95 Mary Basking 22 78.50 6.00 FOR SALE.-Two lots with two-bedroom 28 Colporteurs 1,023 $2,553.09 $2,553.09 Lida Hunt 21 43.50 28.00 house in good location. A short distance west Mrs. C. Derry 21 51.50 21.00 of the Loma Linda Sanitarium, on a hill, NEVADA-UTAH Harriett Early 21 75.50 with a beautiful view. 242 San Lucas. Mail L. HEMMRICH, Pub. Sec. Velma Lewis 48 67.75 48.00 address Mrs. 0. 0. Mattison, Box 348, Loma B. Buck 107 $456.25 $343.55 Amelia Lenoir 20 17.25 Linda, Calif. G. Cummins 49 45.20 45.20 Nina Magnuson 20 175.15 159.25 S. Gramlich 150 537.50 634.93 Lillian Holtman 38 168.50 103.75 R. Vaughan 72 70.32 110.18 Mrs. E. Swan 19 107.45 Fern Williamson ____ 16 9.40 9.40 Colporteur Evangelists 4 Colporteurs 329 $1,109.27 $1,133.86 Mrs. M. Hammer __ 14 37.00 7.75 E. M. FISHELL, Publishing Dept. Sec. Mrs. M. Hall 14 57.45 HAWAIIAN MISSION Dorothy Hudson 12 29.75 31.75 Reports Received Week Ending February 23 , Pub. Sec. Saloma Miller 11 19.75 G. Aiona 20 $ 49.00 $ 49.00 Mariorie Bishop ____ 11 31.00 50.00 S. Chang 6 177.00 177.00 E. George 8 Hours Orders Deliveries 9.75 49.20 M. DeVera 4 44.25 Florence Cott 5 24.00 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA M. Fonseca 69 570.60 570.60 Bessie Fiske 4 75.50 75.50 A. R. REIsww, Pub. Sec. E. Park 12 169.25 167.25 Mrs. W. Walker ____ 2 9.00 9.00 A. Jackson 45 $118.60 $167.40 Mrs. C. Phelps 5 154.50 154.50 M. Sowder 70 383.10 129.85 H. Wright 11 19.50 19.50 37 Colporteurs 961 $ 3,058.60 $ 2,032.30 W. Womack 37 132.00 132.00 J. Curry 34 221.70 54.90 7 Colporteurs 127 $1,184.10 $1,137.85 123 Colporteurs 2,392 $11,701.41 $ 9,008.86 16 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER

Circulate Foreign Signs After the eighth day, however, he After patients leave the hospital we (Continued from page 1) rapidly improved and further recovery send a copy of "Steps to Christ," along was uneventful. word, but a foreign language is spoken, with an announcement of our church as well as to lands across the sea. This experience illustrates: (1) An services and the program of the Voice The most heart-rending appeals have important scientific fact which has of Prophecy. never been demonstrated before, that come to us from our own land, and Patients tell us they are greatly im- "BAL" is capable of counteracting mer- especially so from the war-torn coun- pressed when at seven o'clock each tries of Europe, such as Germany, Aus- cury as late as forty-eight hours after morning the night shift and the on- tria, Denmark, Italy, South America, ingestion. This has not been reported coming day shift of nurses unite in by any other worker; (2) This expe- and many other lands. A typical letter singing gospel hymns and offering rience demonstrates the necessity of from Germany follows: "You have no prayer for patients, physicians, and having associated with the hospital (or idea at all how eagerly your papers are nurses on each hospital unit. medical school) a scientific organiza- read by our friends. We have lost Daily, at one o'clock, the chaplain tion devoted to research, which in its everything we possess, papers, books, broadcasts a devotional message which awareness of the latest developments in everything. It is unfortunate that we reaches the bed of each patient. We the field, and the extension of this cannot secure any here, which papers are adding to this broadcast a daily awareness to the group as a whole, and books are just as important to me broadcast of the Voice of Prophecy re- raises the medical morale of the institu- and for the people here, as is food and cordings as well as programs of Bible tion. In the Institute of Experimental clothing. We beg of you to help us readings, poetry, and music, put on by Medicine we have such an organiza- with the bread of life." We can use medical students. Patients eagerly tion. many thousands of subscriptions for listen over the speaker system to Sab- these needy calls. As a further means of providing more bath sermons and prayer meeting talks. B. L. Gnurmser. adequate facilities for the formal train- A young patient who was suffering --0-- ing of graduate physicians and provid- severe pains came to the hospital f_Loin Riverside Sanitarium Offering ing for specialization in various lines of New York City. The first doctor that medical practice, the Board of Trustees treated her said after he had done his Sabbath, March 8, has been set aside of the College of Medical Evangelists best, "Now let us pray." Not only did by the General Conference as the day authorized the establishment of the her doctor pray with her once, but on which the annual offering for the Graduate School of Medicine in the every time he visited her. The nurses Riverside Sanitarium will be taken in summer of 1946. The Graduate School prayed with her repeatedly. She wrote all the colored churches. is an integral unit of the College of to her former doctors, to her pastor, to The Riverside Sanitarium is a 75- Medical Evangelists and seeks to foster her friends that at the White Memor- bed sanitarium and hospital that the and assist in achieving the over-all pur- ial Hospital the doctors and nurses pray General Conference is erecting on the poses and objectives of the college, with and for their patients. When the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, in namely to properly qualify men and time came for her to leave the hospital order to expand its medical missionary women to become Christian physicians she was baptized. program among the colored people of of the highest order. At present there A few weeks ago another patient was the Southland. are thirty-eight full-time students en- baptized. She apparently has but a At least $60,000 is needed immed- rolled in the Graduate School, and short time to live. "But," she says, "I iately so that orders for equipment and more than sixty additional physicians am almost glad I got sick and came to furnishings can be placed; $37,000 has are taking part-time or postgraduate the hospital. Perhaps I would never been raised thus far. Word from our courses, made available by the Graduate have had the hope I now possess if it headquarters at Washington states that School of Medicine. were not for my sickness. Being in the the General Conference Committee is More and more the place and im- hospital has been to me like being in very desirous of having the balance of portance of religion as a distinct thera- heaven. Here I have found peace and $23,000 raised by Sabbath, March 8. peutic factor in the treatment of sick- happiness." Cottage meetings are be- The individual goal for this special ness is being recognized. Faith and ing conducted in her neighborhood Riverside Offering is $3 per member. trust in God as an all-wise, loving among her friends with encouraging Just place Riverside Sanitarium on our Father does much to renew health. At results. offering envelope and the amount of the White Memorial Hospital, spiritual It is the earnest desire of those re- your offering, and hand it in when the ministry is not neglected. The chap- sponsible for the work of the White Sabbath offering is taken. lain, Elder Dudley C. Newbold is as- Memorial Hospital that the institution OWEN A. TROY. sisted by Miss Heim, who seeks to shall be a missionary institution and bring help to the nearly seven hun- training center in the fullest sense of White Memorial Hospital dred persons who daily visit the clinic, the word. It is our earnest desire that (Continued from page 10) and Miss Bartlett, who assists in visit- the institution shall bear upon it the The physician who had originally taken ing the bed patients in the institution. superscription of Heaven. We realize care of the boy had informed the mother The Signs of the Times is distributed that this depends upon godliness of that the boy would die. Our staff to all patients. We are mailing 600 life and character in every worker. We treated the boy with "BAL" for a period copies of the Signs of the Times weekly ask your prayers that these purposes and of eight days. Toward the end of this to former patients who have requested objectives may be realized. time he began to develop typical edema. us to send the paper to their homes. H. M. WALTON, M.D.