Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-18

thinks am seventy TIL | tell them; nv
n4ir u but little gray.
I have maRy letters from the Shut.
N beud. bat cannot answer them all
1 am glad 1 know of IL and belong se
u. God bless all the poor Suffering
ones"
FRoN The sHrT-N vrsrToR.
Another writes: Among the many
blessings and fayors extended 20 me.
during 'skut-in' life Of twenty tvo
years With spinal disease, IL has been
my Heavenly Fathers good pleasure.
through the kindness Of ny friends and
correspondents. john q. whittisr and
Frances Willard, to iRtroduce me to your
suffering band"
Another writes: have been a shut
IN more than forty years, and entirely
unable TO walk for thirty SIX years: am
at present wholly dependent on friends
for every comfort of my life; cannot
turn myself In bed or move nv feet in
tue slightest degree, and my arms are
almost useless, only having strength in
my hands to sew, knit or write with
great effort. These suferines and pri-
vations ara the result of spinal dis
ease"
Another writes: How wish could
see you all, and learn from each the
story Of yoar shut in life, not from
curiosity but from true sympathy; hav-
ing myself been wholly confined to my
bed for eleven years"
Another writes: " II is nearly thirteen
years since Was laid aside, and my suf-
ferings at times are intense. have not
to bear NV whole long illness at once,
but minute by minute"
lO7 ,22Z, 400 minutes, in the two hun
dred and SIX years, the writers Of the
above extracts have had to bear their
mental as we'll As their physical suffer-
Ings. Who will help me ascertain the
number OF minutes the members of this
band have been wholly confined to beds
OF tor areI Also the number of years
that have been spent by self sacrificing
relatives and friends in ninis.erine TO
this army of suffering, helpless hu-
manity?
What stupendous exposition Of the
ignorance of the people regarding the
greatest work of nature this Society is.
An exposition which should cause every
person of common sense TO blush soar
let with shame at such state of affairs.
An exposition which should set people
to asking themselves and to asking each
other II II IS not about the day aud age
OF the world TO begin to Commence
To learn how TO run thus machine, one
trillion times more wonderful and pre-
cious than even the COrliss engine. SO
there will not be 30 many boilers, escape
valves, joarnals, cogs. pulleys, levers,
etc., etc.. out of repair.
From my point of view this society,
which has as yet received bat little no.
ties from the outside world. IL entitled
to more consideration than all other
societies in the world combined. And
furthermore, from my point of view, a
sketch of II and its objects should be
kept standing in the columns of every
paper in the land until every invalid,
every humanitarian, and even those to
whom this sketch il particularly dedi-
GATED, thoroughly comprehend why this
Society should receive the serious atten-
ton of the whole civilized world, and
until they rise en- Bsdsse and demand
that the State, after thoroughly i'm press
ing upon every mind that knowledge
of and obedience 10 hygienic and phv-
slological laws are sacred duties they
owe to themselves, TO future generations
and to society, shall educate every per
son within its borders in the best known
hygienio, physiological. psychological,
chronological, physloanonic aud phi
lanthroplc laws.
GOLDEN TEXTS FOR THE MILLIONS.
Is there anything better in q State
than both men and wsmen be rendered
the very best? There is not.-Pidto.
A good tree eannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit.-Jesns.
Cordially invite a correspondence by
letter with every one who takes any in
terest in this sketch, from any point of
view. Hopefully,
LUCY l.. CHURCHILL, Shut-in,
West Richtield. Summit county, Ohio.
Editors please NIB. that ask every
paper on this papers exchange list TO
please copy this sketch into your daily.
weekly aud Sunday papers. and to please
send me copy Of each issue this sketch
= ppears in, and greatly oblige LUCY l..
CHuRcHILL.l