The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-11

| but the hitching-post was left-burned to the
| dimensions of cane. but God put it into the
heart Of one of his servants to help US again.
| and now on Superior street stands fine building
| capable of accommodating sxty-fve patients.
| A letter was received from wealthy widow
In Jacksonville asking him to come and see her
about taking property for charitable purposes.
he visited the place, but felt no clear call that
| the additional work should be assumed.
The property was several times offered and
| several times refused.
Finally the board of the Pittsburg Hospital
| wished him to visit Jacksonville and come to a
permanent decision
| He stood with his companion looking at the
| beautiful building and grounds when his friend
| said: IF God offers you $4O.O00 property,
will ne not also provide means and workers to
fill it up and carry it on2" and again the passage
came to mind: God is able to do exceeding
| abundantly above all that we can ask or think"
| and the property was accepted.
It was fitted ND at q cost of $1,000 and filled
| with orphan children The donor became dis
| satisfied with the management, and finding
| defect in the charter succeeded after much liti-
CATION, in retaining the building
The children were sent to other homes, and
| when the lady had again her silent house she
| deeply regretted the step she had taken. While
| the director and his assistants were waiting to
| take the train they received message: Il
| desire to give back the building" At first he
| protested. and for he had nearly lost
| falth but returned to see her, and the papers
were drawn strong and firm that no relapse could
| again occur.
At first the town gave them no sympathy, but
| one day eleven persons-bleeding. torn. crushed
| by tornado. so that their clothing had to be cut
off them-were carried into the hospital For a
| few weeks it was like hotel for the sick and
| their friends. The tide was turned, people
| came with helpful hands and necessary money;
now they have prosperous hospital and orphans
home.
On one occasion, when the director was passing
| the parochial school. the pastor said: Your pa
tients have nothing to eat and you have $12, 600
to pay. My children will do something; come
| and see."
The next morning the director stood by while
the children deposited a potatoe, a pumpkin,
jar of fruit glass of jelly. until they had more
| than three draylOads for the hospital.
Once when the director was his way to
| Milwaukee he met clergyman from Lawrence
| county Pa, out for his summer vacation.
The clergyman came up to him and said, Are
| you Mr.. -, Of the hospitalW.
II am"
| ''We have 500 for you. My Sunday
school children have raised chickens, sold berries
| and by, other means have raised $780, We sent
| $50 to india and have brought the remainder
| to you"
"But I cannot take it. Each community
should take care of its own. The great West can
provide for its own suffering"
| The pastor urged the matter. He desired to
| tell his people on his return that he had left the
money in the directors hands, and the latter at
last consented to take $10-he remembered he
|
train was lawyer who said, You preachers are
very llogica. You teach that you have only
to ask God for anything, and He sends You -four
| potatoes or whatever You ask. Now, you know
| that is absurd. God is a great potentate who
works by fixed laws and it is absurd to talk OF
special providenees, for they imply suspension
| of those laws"
| The director went back to the lawyer and told
| him the story of the Lawrence county clergy
| man.
"A strange coincidence" said the lawyer.
| "A very strange coincidence" said the direc-
| tor, significantly"
| the hospital who said: I'VE are in luck; no need
| to worry about the coal bill now, the ladies of
| city have gwen concert for us, and have placed
| 5000 in our hands as the result"
1t appeared poor fellow who had been re-
| fused at several hospitals, had been admitted
| and carefully cared for under circumstances
| which promptly excited the sympathy of the
public with the above result
Again the lawyer said, "a strange coinci-
! depce"
And the director reiterated, "a very strange
| coincidence"
When this work began there was not an
orphans home nor hospital under the care of
| the Lutheran Church in America. Now there
| are from twelve to fifteen hospitals and houses
for the aged, and thirty or forty orphans homes
God has often let them get to extremites
| sometimes they have not SO much as q postage
| stamp, but He has never failed to provide before
they came to suffering, This work has excited
other churches to do likewise, and thus the Mas
| ters work has been carried on.
| The gifts of children have been a great help
| A father handed him roll of twenty fvecent
notes which had been held SO tightly in the
| hands of his dying little girl that the utmost
| care was needed to unwrap them
| The Lutheran Emigrant House at the port of
| New York Is porch of mercy where the
stranger from all nations receive Christian kind.
| ness More than 103 900 immigrants of all lands
have been received there during the last eleven
years. and have been directed and protected on
| their way to find new homes
| The gentleman said: If this were the work of
one would not speak of it. Many have gone
to their long home. All have helped you,
| brethren, MIR. Basler. the Sisters Of Mercy, the
| workmen have each been factors in this great
work Money has come from England from
| Rome itself, from all parts of Europe and our
own land. Surely the blind receive their sight,
| the lame walk, the deaf hear, the sick are healed
| and these signs DO follow them.
| The Lutheran Church has 1000 German Sis
| ters of Mercy. They have hospitals and schools
for girls at Alexandria. Cairo. Jerusalem and
| other places in the Orient There are no vows
in this sisrerhood for where the spirit of God is
there is liberty. sister can serve for long or
| short time, as she may choose.
He then made most eloquent appeal to the
young to enter the service of suffering humanity.
God needs Of your substance if you cannot leave
other duties to do this work.
He told of rich man who received very
| special care at Milwaukee, whose widow proposed
finishing the chancel of their chapel, and intends
| to set apart share of her fortune to establish
/ such an institution in her own city.
| The daughter of a rich Jew was also benefited
| there, and the father desires to found hospital
| to help other sufferers
| Communication has been received from
Dubuque asking direction for another hospital of
| the same kind, for which legacy has been left
| No end to this work All this is the work of
God. No flesh may glory. Men say: DO you
| run these hospitals2"
| He answers: II run them into the ground
/ God sets right my mistakes or they would not
run day. 1t is matter of daily deliverance"
| He wants no fairs, festive oyster to raise
| funds, but the labor of the hand from the heart
of every neighborhood and town to carry on
G DIS work.
| ever shall forget the sneakers look and