PACIFIC UNION RECORDER ;
tion that we refer to the success
of this instituion during recent
months, Although we are m the
midst of the dull season, vet our
rooms are quite well filled, and at
no time ha sthere been as few
aptients as we would naturally
expect at this time of the year.
Most of our patients are those
that arc quite sick, and are con-
fined to their rooms. This keeps
quite a number of nurses busy,
sometimes as high as fifteen be-
img on full duty,
Our close proximity to the city
of los Angeles affords us many
advantages, among which is the
opportunity given business men
and their famiites to come to us
for treatment. Some of these are
members of the Taras and wealthy
organizations. in this way our
work receives mach favorable
comment,
Our surgical work 1s [creasing
so that it will soon Le necessary
to make provision for larger quar-
ters for an operating room.
As mentioned in a recent 13sue,
the commencement exercises of
our Tirst class of graduate nurses
took place on June 5. There was
a large attendance, and much in-
terest was manifested by the peo-
ple of the town. An address pre-
paved for the occasion and debv-
cred by Miss Christine Meyer,
one of the class, will be found in
another column,
Our class work for the coming
vear has started off well, and
there 1s an excellent interest
among the workers, The spirit-
ual tone of the mstitution 1s often
an occasion of avorable remark,
Considerable Dible work has
been done m the recent weeks
among the patients, some of
whom are much interested,
Co IY Marvin,
An Address.
Miss (‘hristine
member of the nurses’
cla-s, at the Glendale
Training School, June 6.]
[liven by Mever, =»
graduating
Sanitarium
As a representative of the class
of 1900, it affords me no small
degree of pleasure in voicing our
sentiments to the esteemed facul-
ty of the Glendale Sanitarium
I raining School; to the taithiul
co-laborers in the classes of 1YOUX
and 1909; also to the members of
the sanitarium tanuly who have
s nobly pertormed tneir part in
the good work; to the dear
friends who have so truly encour-
aged and mspired us to reach the
highest ideals mm this noble call-
ing; and to those of the town of
Glendale, who have shown kmdly
imterest mm the sanittartum and its
work, which 1s manifest by ther
presence here this evening.
‘ihe work of the beloved fac-
ulty nn the trammyg ot the class
betore you may be compared to
that of the sculptor who, imding
an unfinished piece of sculpture
bearing the impress ot another
mind, determimes to impart to
that incomplete work of art his
own ideal; and, with chisel m
hand, begins to carve and remod-
cl, undoing and apparently de-
stroving that which already had
heen accomplished; but by dint
of skillful, persevering, patient
cfiort, the unlovely mass of stone
final polish reveals a perfect piece
of ctatuary, bearing the personal-
ity of the one who has untiringly
labored to perfect it.
About two and one-half years
ago at was decrded to open a san-
itarium and traming school for
nurses, makimg it necessary to
procure immediately a corp of
helpers with more or less expert-
cence; hence a call was made for
such workers. In various imstitt-
tions of this same order there
were those whose hearts stirred
them to respond to this call, and,
[caving their own schools, jomed
hands m building up the pioneers
work of the mfant stitution.
[rom the north, south, cast, and
west they came, bringing with
them ideas received at ther re-
spective schools of traming.
FE BY . * .
I'hen, as with the unfinished
work of the sculptor, began the
process of undoing and remodel-
img much that previously had
been acomplished, requiring un-
limited forbearance, patience, and
charity on the part of both m-
structors and pupils. Many dif-
ficulties had to be surmounted,
many obstacles overcome: but,
notwithstanding all this, our ex-
perience during the course of 1n-
struction at the Glendale Sanita-
rium will form a bright spor mn
our lives as we take up the re-
sponsibilities of our vocation;
and the experience gained here
will prove but a stepping stone to
the higher possibilities.
For the bennett or the friends
with us this evening who are un-
familiar with the  sanitarium
methods of work, we would sav
that while a thorough hospital
training 1s given, another and
more 1mmportant feature or the
worl 1s 1ts missionary aspect, the
nurses being instructed mo lines
of medical missionary work, and
a spirit of scli-demal and seli-
sacrifice encouraged. The object
held up before the voung people
henge, not that they may become
oraduate nurses who will oo out
demanding large salaries for
worldly gain, but, when the peri-
od of trammyg 1s at an end, they
may be fitted to go forth mto the
world medical missionaries,
ready to hasten at th ecall of duty
to the furthermost ends of the
carth 1f Providence so indicates,
ds
In order to obtain this end, a
thorough course of instruction is
oven, including Dible, hygiene,
correct dietary, and rational
methods of treating the sick in
their homes, and teachme them
how to care for their bodies,
which bodies we are taught may
be the temple of the Holy Ghost,
and as such must he kept pure
and undefiled: and while caring
for their bodies, we mast hy ex-
ample and precent point them to
the One who forgiveth all our in-
iquities, and heaieth all our dis-
ASC,
To those who have so faithfully
labored to prepare us {for this no-
ble work, we would tender our
stircere gratitude and appreciation
for the kindness and consideration
shown at all times; for the hear-
ing with our mistakes and fail-