Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-04-20
A COUNTY HOSPITAL,
70 WARREN SHEAF:-

ask space in your paper for q few
lines, if you will be so kind as to pub-
lIsh the same. [ have thought for
some time that it would be agood
thing to have q county hospital for
Marshall county, as we'll as for most
other counties, but I have neither in
speech, nor through the press, seen
the question discussed; and as l see
the necessity for such an institution
in our county, l do hereby present
the matter for the consideration of
our citizens.
Many OF you will perhaps say that
our county is too poor to incur any
expense for salary OF those persons
who are to be in charge and for
maintaining the hospital, and when
we become able to do this, then our
honored county commissioners will
take the matter in their hands and
go on with the enterprise. l agree
1ull we'll that our county is hardly
able to take hold of this matter, and
II it shall be done by the county COM
nlssloners, we know beforehand
where it is going to land, and then 7
would not recommend such IN under
taking at present, although l see the
necessity OF it for our county, our
people, and also for strangers who
visit our county in the fall for the
purpose OF earning Il few cents. As
you know, q former legislature pass.
ed a law compelling each town to
support its own poor. have moth
ing against the law in itself,as much
could be saved thereby, ii we also
mad hospital where in case of sick
ness, persons, wishing to avail them
selves thereof. could obtain cheap
ana proper care and medical atten-
dance, Tor that would advance us
farther on the way towards comfort
ana economy and enable us to do
our duties TO our fellow men. NV
pan IS to solicit voluntary contri-
buttons, and let the work be done in
Christian spirit, as we nearly all
claim to be Christians, and then
everything is sufficiently clear. The
apostle James, inspired by the Holy
Hhost, says: BE We doors of the word
and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves. James 1: %. And in
the 2nd chapter Sth verse, he says:
II ye fulfill the royal law according to
the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy
neIghbor as thyself, ye DO we'll.
Jesus tells us to do unto others as
we would have others do unto us.
Here is no question in regard to
denomination or creed; all can unite
IN extending sympathy and help to a
SICK fellowman. No one needs to
think that in doing an act OF kind
ness he does something that is not
acceptable to the Lord, but on the
other hand it is just such deeds about
which we will be questioned on the
day OF Judgment. All people shall
be gathered before Him, Jesus,
Math 25: 80, and III the same chap
ter, 4l-43 verses, he says: Depart
from me We cursed, for was a hung
cred and We gave me no meat; l was
thirsty and We gave me no drink; 1
was a stranger, and We took me not
IN: naked and We clothed me not: sick
and in prison and We visited me not.
Let us not go far away with our
aims and our help, forgetting that
we have a Lazarus at our own door,
Luke 16: 20. Fellow citizens, we
have long enough neglected our du-
ty in this respect, provided we ex-
pect to get our own souls saved. It
is natural also to help those in need
OF our help, ii we think right. I do
not speak OF those who have no
thoughts whatever-neithsr OF the
present nor the future life. Friends
and fellow citizens! Let us all join in
support OF this cause, and we will in
turn be benefited thereby. The plan
is to get a small hospital costing
about $1,000 or $500, containing
several rooms where the sick may be