SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8288, 16 November 1906, Page 5

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Tbe question discussed at yesterday's sitting of ttie conference in connection with the annual oamp meeting of tbe Seventh Day Adventists was the Health and Medioal Work of the Denomination. The matter was discussed at considerable length. Speakers pointed oat that the medioal work of tbe denomination was associated with the Gospel work. The Adventists bear in mind the fact that Christ when on earth Associated tbe work of healing physically with healing spiritually. It is said in tbe Bible that He went around healing the sick everywhere as well aB attending to their spiritual wants. The Adventists consider that it is essential that the medical work and the Gospel work should run hand in band—a fact which they consider has been lost sight of In other churches. Keeping this point in mind they educate their missionaries ao that wbeu shey go to foreign lands they are oapable of attending to the physical needs of their followers. Their missionaries are subjected toa curriculum which en ables them to give physical instruction >a well as instruction in health cookery. Another poipfc worthy of note ia that in ail tbe denomination's sanatariums there are gymnasiums whioh are used for the physical development of the patients. The dietary treatment is a feature of tbe sanatariums. Dr. Kress informer! a Wairarapa Age reporter last evening that he had not partaken of meat for twenty years, and he never ha<3 more than two meals a day. He bad a daughter nearly twenty years of age who had never tasted meat, aud she bad. never known what it was to be laid up tvif.h siokneas. The doctor maintains that there is mure nutriment in vegetable matter than meat, and the medinal world was beginning to realise that meat was not an essential faotor in building up a man's constitution. Last evening, Mr W. D. Salisbury, who is in charge of the denomination's publishing works at Warburton, Victoria, delivered a leoture illustrated with limelight views on tbe publishing work of the Seventh Day Adventists in Australia. During the course of his address Mr Salisbury said that their publishing factory was established in Melbourne in 1899, but although they ftill have a factory for doing outside work in that [city, a large factory was established in Warburton in February lass. The faotory, together with 13 houses, was . built', and the water-power pla'nt installed in four months, tbe factory and plant alone oosting £11 ; 000. That printing house was used entirely for printng the denom ination's own work. About 40 or 50 hands were employed in the faotory, and tbe whole staff were kept busy. Mr Salisbury considered, that the plant was the most complete ia the Southern Hemisphere. They executed all kinds of, work, including eleotro-typing, photo-engraving and binding of every iescriplion. The advantage possessed by the faotory was that every department was situated on the ground floor, and everything from the preparation of the manuscript to the printed article was executed in the establishment. Tbe reason wby the factory was transferred from the city to tbe country was for the benefit of the employees, who bar! their owti cottages, and v;bu were away from city iufluouoes. The water was laid on to all the bouses from the factory waterpipes, and tbe houses as well as the faotory were lighted with elec';rioity from their own Mr Salisbury explained that tbe advantages derived from the fact that there was no expense for lighting, heating or power at the faotory more than compensated for the freight paid for goods by them. About 50 slides were shown during the lecture, all of which proved interesting as illustrating the magnitude of the denomination's publishing work. Mr Salisbury will leave to-dav for Wellington on route to Warburton.