Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29

the Bible. taken by course, and makes a
short address, often interspersed with
stories and anecdotes illustrating the
text This is followed by a testimonial
meeting, and If any have transgressed
the few rules of the home that hour is
considered the acceptable time to con-
fess.
A short prayer concludes the service.
At the conclusion of the prayer hands are
laid on many letters which are received
inclosing hahdlxerchiefs, on which the
hands of the believers are placed in ac-
cordance with Acts. 19:l1-12 and these
letters are then returned to their respect
i've senders.
Take Up Leaders
After this the large family, of usually
about fifty or seventy-fve, go to the diff
ferent tasks of the day. carpenter work.
gardening and household tasks.
In the gardens a great variety of vege-
tables is being raised for use at the
home under the supervision of the head
gardener. Many who are interested in
the work have donated the use of garden
plots, and this is looked upon by the
workers of the home as one Of the ways
in which ''the Lord doth provide"
Just now many of those in the home
are working on the Pisgah ark in the ar
royo near Avenue Fifty-nine. which it is
hoped will be furnished by friends Of the
institution.
Pisgah gardens, six miles from Toluca,
is the site Of the home for the tubercular.
There they are taken and cared for.
Many testimonials have been received
from those who have been cured.
Early in November convention of con-
sumptives created worldwide interest at
these gardens when many responded to
the invitation to spend two weeks at the
home free of charge.
On Sundays the life at these institu-
tions varies somewhat from that of week
days. From ten to twenty workers, both
men and women, go out to the highways
and byways seeking the poor, wretched
and drunken zones and ask them to go to
the home. At the home their clothing is
changed, they are given baths and asked
to remain as long as they wish, and are
offered a home.
Services in Tent
Each Sunday afternoon services are
held at o'clock in the tent, and many
of those brought in during the day are
converted and start life anew with
Christian principles.
Throughout the institution there is not
a paid servant and everything is carried
out on the one big family plan.
DR.. Yoakum is leading strenuous life
in caring for these institutions, which he
has organized on faith and which are
supported through voluntary donations.
He lives with his family about a block
from the home, and is at the institution
every morning to preside at the morning
meal. After this he gives general direc-
tions for the work and then goes to his
office, S24 H. w. Hellman building. where
he often greets his rooms full of anxious
people to be cured or to tell of their
troubles, for he is never too busy to see
all who may come to him. On his way
to the office Dr. Yoakum employs his
time in debating letters to his secretary.
DR.. Yoakum takes a fatherly interest
in every one who enters the home and is
never too busy to greet one of his ''boys,"
as he calls them.
The work which has So successfully
been started in Les Angeles is to be
spread unto all the world. Within the
past few months DR.. Yoakum has visited
the Hawaiian islands, where he met with
great success. Many conversions were re-
ported among the Japanese, Chinese and
native Hawaiians. Three missionaries
were sent to Hawaii from the home to
continue the work started.
To Go to England
Early In the New Year DR.. Yoakum eX-
poets to go to England, there to start
the work of healing by faith and prayer.
Many of the local workers have them
selves been saved from lives of drunken
ness and disease and are among the nlost
active in going out after their fallen
brethren.
No district is too poor, too dirty or too
bad for these people to enter, and the
red light section has been visited many
times with effect.
The home is ever in the atmosphere of
brotherly love in its harmonious control
While there is line Of freedom among
the inmates there are strict rules that
are cheerfully adhered to, but If any
are inclined to continual disobedience
they are asked to leave.