HISTORICAL SKETCH. XXV 



testant preacher at Tarsus, knowing him to be 

 greatly interested in such matters. He was so 

 impressed by the book that he immediately set 

 about organizing an anti-tobacco club in the city 

 of Paul's birth. In the spring of 1889, he in- 

 formed me that he had secured twenty members, 

 who were quite enthusiastic over the pledges they 

 had made. I remember that they were of three 

 different nationalities, Armenian, Greek, and Turk- 

 ish. Two years later this preacher left Tarsus, 

 and is now working in the Smyrna field. I have 

 no doubt that he will start another club in the 

 country of Paul's early labors." 



THE ANTI-NARCOTIC SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 

 COAST. 



Dr. C. Clifford Vanderbeck, who is at the head 

 of a sanitarium in San Francisco, called "The 

 Hygeia," has long been deeply impressed with the 

 terrible evils of the opium habit, which he says 

 "has saturated our society here through and 

 through." After many efforts by lectures and in 

 other ways to interest the public, on December 

 1, 1891, he founded "The Anti-Narcotic Society 

 of the Pacific Coast." Dr. Vanderbeck writes : 

 " Some of the poor victims who are brought before 

 the police judges, beg to be sent to the county jail 

 or the House of Correction, where they cannot 

 get their accustomed narcotic. Hitherto, with all 

 our charities, nothing has been done for one of the 



