The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-19
MEDICAL DAY
AT CAMP
Talks in Behalf of Health
and Temperance.
TRAINED NURSES PRESENT
Give Practical Demonstra-
ion Df Care of Sick.
Adventist Leaders Make Plea For
Right Living-Elder Olmstead Tells
of Londons Famous Old White
chapel.

Interesting speeches made by medi-
cal men and ministers in behalf of
health an temperance. DR.. Yemen of
Cleveland was the first speaker. He
was followed by Elder Gaede OF Gin
cinnati Dr. Fisher OF Mount Vernon
and DIR. Jump OF Bowling Green. MIR.
r. II. Numbers of Delaware, General
Missionary AgentN for the Columbia
Union Conference then followed, Civ
ing the best ways and means of
placing Health and Temperance 1T
erature before the people. Prof. B. c.
Wilkinson. PHI. ID. then added stir
ring speech advocating a strict obser-
vance of all the principles of right
living ana urged that all be more
careful Ola the question OF dietics.
Elder Gaede of Cincinnati also spoke
of the nee essity of following scriptur-
al advice closely il We ever expect to
prosper and be in health
The different speakers were I'm har-
mony with the demands Of the subject
and compared lives of godly men and
their influence with those who failed
10 observe the requirements of Him
who is the Author and flnisher OF
our faith, showing the results of be-
ing in harmony on every point IT
was intensely interesting and all en-
joyed their counsel better than the ad-
ministratiUn of medicine.
The afternoon meeting was made
unusually interesting when DR.. Fish
apI l. lie Ina
several demonstrations showing how
to care for the sick. A table was
placed on the platform and valuable
information given in practical way,
Patients were provided for the oc-
casion and the various methods OF
relieving rain carefully explained
Such instruction as this is of th"
greatest value, especially is this true
when persons are living a distance
from medical assistance, or mission
aries living in foreign lands where
disease stalks through the land un-
checked nd death is a common foe.
Elder j. II. Olmsted, OF Columbus
delivered one of his usual compre-
hensive and eloquent ADDRESSES on the
theme of "lntemperance" His wide
acquaintance with the evil of excess
In many lands made his talk one OF
unusual Interest. He visualized broken
homes as they exist in Chicago, New
York and London's famous old fiction.
al and real Whitechapel so fire.
quently written into literature. Con-
ditions in South Africa, where Elder
Olmsted labored as a missionary were
graphically drawn, showing the excess
there to differ not in principle but
merely IN feature. The drunken
parent, the child crying for the
bread that is not, the little one alone
in the street canopied only by Gods
heavenly roof, were given as pro-
ducts of the gin mill. Conditions as
they exist in our larger cities where
evil concentrates were woven vivldly
into the entire fabric of the address
which closed with a strong appea
for the abandonment of indifference
or deliberate carelessness and ar
awakening of men to the possibilities
of life In its fullest
Adventists continue to arrive at tho
camp daily and the well l-ordered tent
village rcmains an ideal spot for up
lift and recreation.