The New York herald., 1878-12-30
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"HOSPITAL SUNDAY"
COLLECTIONS TAKEN UP FOR ST. LUKE's AND
ST. MARys HOSPITALS IN ALL THE EPISCOPAL

COLLECTIONS TAKEN UP FOR ST. LUKE's AND
ST. MARYs HOSPITALS IN ALL THE EPISCOPAL
CHURCHES YESTERDAY.
Yesterday Hospital sunday" an institution
copied from London where for some years past col
lcctions taken up ON certain Sunday tor all the
hospitals OF the metropolis Here Hospital Sun
day" has only been thus far introduced BY the Eps
copal churches and the collections made yesterday
were solely for thu benefit of the two Episcopal hos
pitas. st. Lukes and St. Marys. 1t has been sought
to extend the application of the system. as to in
duce the other denominations to join. in order that
collections might be taken up in all the Episcopal
Catholic presby tcrian. Methodist and other churches
for their respective hospitals the Sunday
but has thus Tar crowned the efforts made
this direction. short time ago meeting OF tho
Episcopal clergy took place Ut st. Lukc's Hospital
with view to such q measure but nothing definite
was done. although the belief was expressed that IL
the matter only agitated. the other churches
would gladly toin to establish one Hospital sunday
for all the churches OF all the denominations ia this
city. Ecv. DR.. Dix, OF Trinity Church. explained the
plan yesterday according to which churches having
no UNCONVENTIONAL hospitals should by ch Ice desy-
nate the hospital TO which their collections taken on
"nospita! sunday" should go
now rHE COLLECTIONS WIRE TAKEN UP.
After morning service yesterday the collection
taksn up in all the Episcopal churches. Printed
veiopes had been distributed IN AL the pcws. a,l.
dressed either st. Luke's" st. Mary's," and
donors who preferred this method TO throwing their
pifts into the passing box enclosed their money
checks and passed them to the collectors. At the
time the usual cash collections were received in
the boxes to be applied exclusively for the benet of
the Hospitals. Inc money not specially dcN gnatei
by the lycrs intended tor either OF the hospit us
~ be equally divided between the two. The
col ections of each church were turned over to
| its clerk. whose duty IL will be to count
them this morning and deliver them 10 the tor oil
the parish. The icctors III their turn viii forward
th FUNDS to the trcasurers OF the two hospitals. As
the contributions OF yesterday will not Dc counted
until to-day II was impossible 10 ascertain tue aggre
gate pcruniary result OF "Iinspital sunday" but
from all indications IL must be large. Az Dr. Dix
pointed out, those collections OF Hospital sunday
10 not 10y any represent all the donations OF
church members to the hospitals and proof of this
statement hc instanced Mr. Astors gilt Of $25, 900
made last Year.
HOSPITALS
| The st. Luke's Hospital whose scope and object Is
too well known to require reltcration treated Tor the
year ending october A. 1878. 0 patients, of which
30, discharged having been cured. 40 have
ing Improved aud s6 ~ uninprovcd. while i12 died
and los remained Ia the hospital. -Four hundred and
thirty-s of the patients belonged to the Episcopal
| denomination, COZ to other Christian churches q
were Jews aud ~ were without rcliious connAe