The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-05-05
MOST BEAUTIFUL
SPOT
By LUCY RIDER MEYER

Founder and President Emeritus o.
of the Chicago Training Schoo
and Special Representative of the
National Deaconess Society.
II wish you would go down t.
| Lava" said minister friend, mar
who has the interests of the whole
| northwest at heart, land see what
we have done down there. One OF
| our women, as | understand 1t, has
given her home and half the town
besides to the church for deaconess
Observation-Disclosures acres! It's GER
tainly the most beautiful little river
the Portneuf, with water power ad
infinitum. And-Oh, best of all, it
isn't Lava at all, but Lava Hot
Springs. The springs are already
very noted. People are carried to
the place on stretchers and in a little
while walking about in perfect
health! You go and see.
So to Lava Hot Spinngs in the
southeastern part of Idaho straight
way wendell my way.
No words%can describe the beauty
of the location of, this magnificent
thirty-six acres, given to Methodism.
The roaring little river coming
down from the wonderfully rich
ranches in the, higher valleys, flows
here through a canyon, the floor of
w h iob ic c,,ff;oiant1u u,ido opd laval
for the site of the enterprising little
town which has grown up as. if by
magic about the wonderful springs.
The state has recognized the value
of the springs and the mud baths.
and is at this time adding another
magnificent natatorium at "a cost
of $35, 900 for the benefit of the
constantly increasing stream Of Wis
itors and resorters. A thousand au-
tomobiles a day-that is not uncom-
mon in summer time--not to speak
of tents and hotels and boarding
houses crowded. The town is grow
ing by leaps and bounds. Our ,splen-
did piece of land lies within a few
rods of these wonderful mineral
springs. There are few buildings at
present upon it, the historic, big old
three-compartment log cabin" and
a dozen or so tent cottages, large
and small and the necessary build
ings to care for a small herd of
COWS, and the horses and chickens;
but in this land of magic growth no
one knows what may greet our
amazed vision six months from now.
1t may be big sanitarium building
for rheumatic and other invalids, or
It may be the first unit of Deacon
ess hospital of brick and stone. These
are some of the visions that are in |
The mind of Idaho Methodism as it |
this magnificent open
ng. The sanitorium is open for
guests at the present time having a
capacity of about forty persons where
nome cooking and clean cottage
,ents are the attraction
History? Here it is-in a tabloid.
hloo Ouol0 MILD years dSo was oil
1pworth league worker in Iowa.
Mrs. Susie Mills-Bristol found her.
elf few years later with husband
zone to the glory-land, the sole pro-
,rietor of this beautiful piece of
and. Brother Nelson Pierce, our
'astor, approached her very diff
lently last fall asking her for CEN
enary offering. "a centenary gift?"
he replied. You may have my
Whole place here if you want it,"
Who says no to a gold mine, espe-
tally if the products are going to be
lot the yellow gold that perishes,
tut the healed bodies and souls,
prophecies of the coming Kingdom.
Thus is arising the first Methodist
ospital in the great state of Idaho.
Hiss Grace Linfield, r. N, has been
elected by the National Deaconess
ssociation in connection with the
rustees of the Idaho conference to
ct as superintendent of the hospital
nd sanitorium and if she is as sue
essful as Miss Ariss of Great Falls,
lont., it will only be a short time ,
efore Idaho has seven successful
eaconess hospitals, the same as
Iontana has at this time. !,