Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-11-23
FEW fr0RDs THAT VOC OUGHT
TO LISTEN TO.

A FEW WORDS THAT VOC OUGHT
TO LISTEN TO-
| Twenty-Five hundred of you that live
| In Stanton. have this week receiveda little
envelope enclosinga few well spoken words
and little ready directed envelope. What
have you one with it? Thrown it away!
We hope not. What are you going to dc
with it? Neglect it? If you love youl
! fellow men you cannot do that.
It is about q hospital. Do you knox
what a hospital is? Do you know if yor
| help to start this one, what it viii do? II
will stand open day and night for years
after you are gone. to help the sick, tho
wounded, the poor, the HELPLESS. Long
after you have passed away, this monumen
Of your charity will stand open, busy witt
people doing good to their fellow men
| Suppose you could look over the books o,
even the smallest hospital that you knoN
Of, what a long list you would see of Gi.t
and women restored to active life throus
its aid who otherwise would have been
invalids OF cripples for life What Il 10 g
list you would see Of the helpless and home
less who haye been tenderly nursed, have
had pain aIleyiated, and have been restor, d
to the ranks Of self supporting people!
There is no greater bitterness than poverty
save that of poverty and sickness comb, :
cd. If you saw a man lying in the street
sick, Or wounded, or dying, you would rot
dare pass by and leave him there alone; alni
yet the world is full Of just such people and
we 90 pass them by every day in the year:
we pass them by when we neglect to pro
vide a place i'll which they may be treated.
Our own little world, the horizon of wilic.
we can almost touch with our hands, is full
Of them. They do not reproach us, their
anxious, helpless looks do hot follow us. but
it is because we afW not see them. Who
that has talked to the women Of the City
Mission fol- the Poor and heard their sad
stories every winter of their helpless sick =.
has rot felt that there is almost 4 sort IF
barbarism in not having hospital to which
they can lie sent?
las suffering 10 claim on you? Do you
know of anything Oh earth that has Il
greater claim ? Could there be Il greater
pleasure to you than to see the lights Of Il
hospital at night and know that within
there were men and women busy in allevi
ating human misery and to feel that you
had helped toput them there? Ii good deeds
give a satisfaction Oh earth, then of all
deeds the remembrance of this should give
us The greatest pleasure. You are not able
to do much to help this You come to
this conclusion after thinking your affairs
over? Then don t do much, but do some
thing: do just what you are able.
On the little envelope we see printed
las we have the efore opportunity, let us
do good unto all men" You know where
that came from, VINO said it, and what il
means. You have know it all your life
Well thas is your opportunity. Don't leg
lect it. Don't put it aside Yoa know
the need for this thing, or you can
know if you will talk to those whose OPP
portunities to know are wider. You can
know, if You will ask, that right here i'll
your little home place nen have died for
the lack of Il hospital to take them to-; aye,
have died Ill the open air with nof hing
above them but the sky, fro.u Wnl9l ply
ing angels must have lookel wondering II,
Implying men; have died i'll bare ronAls;
have l;een burned to death by fevers wnicn
nursing and nourishnent could have con-
0uerel. 1t is not that your home place is
less humane than others; it is simply be-
cause hospital is the OILY remedy-that
gives everything, food. rest, nonrisnneut,
nursing, GONZALES cehce AID life. 1t is The
oppoTtunify, and the only one.
You know what manner of women are
seeking to establish this beneficent ilistitn-
ton among us. They are with lis and of
Us. They are serving the Master i'll ali
OF his churches There is nothing secta
isls. about them or their work. They have
given nucn Of their time, their inn;ey and
their work; now will you give just little
of yours ? If you will, then bring your
envelopes to Taylor AcLoy at the \. NJ.
G. 4. buildiiig. 1t yOH have (, mind TO say
no, OF to pass it by iIdifferentlg, Stop and
think just d moment before yoi decide.
Try aid think thai in making up ys'!n
mind you are literally deciding wheilet
: oile of ]our fellow Hlesi AID Wonen sila!l
live. Or shall die for want Of help Il is d
serious thought. May the Master, wnoSe
work it is. help yoa todecide.