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PROTESTANT HOSPITAL DEDICATED

QUITO, ECUADOR -- VISITORS FLOCK TO SEE THE NEW

MODERN 50-BED HOSPITAL BUILT HERE THROUGH THE

INSPIRATION OF A PROTESTANT EVANGELIST WHOSE TWIN

PASSIONS WERE SCIENCE AND RELIGION. RECENTLY

DEDICATED, IT WAS CONCEIVED PRIMARILY FOR THE

INDIANS IN THIS ANDEAN CITY, WHICH IS 9,000 FEET

ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THE PROJECT WAS LAUNCHED ABOUT

EIGHT YEARS AGO BY THE LATE EVANGELIST HARRY

RIMMER WHILE ON A PREACHING MISSION. THE EVANGEL-

IST, WHO ONCE STUDIED MEDICINE, WAS APPALLED BY

THE LACK OF MEDICAL FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO THE

POVERTY-STRICKEN INDIANS AND WAS DETERMINED TO

HELP THEM. HOWEVER, HE DIED BEFORE THE BUILDING

WAS COMPLETED AND IT WAS CONTINUED BY DR. GEORGE

PALMER, A PHILADELPHIA MINISTER. IT IS CALLED

"VOZANDES" AFTER THE GOSPEL RADIO STATION HCJB

HERE, KNOWN AS THE VOICE OF THE ANDES.

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