The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-16
Concerning Good Works.
February ., 1900.

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| EDITOR REGISTER:
| SIT:-M nile very warmly and
heartily approving and re.echoing the
sentiments expressed in your notation
to Mr.. Bruner's well written letter, |
think one point of it deserves more
emphatic comment. Very quietly
and very unostentatiously the holy
women of lola of nearly, if not quite,
all the churches certainly of all the
"strong" ones) have been obeying the
command That your aims be in
secret"
The motive for this direction and
for its obedient fulfillment is twofold
tenderness for the feelings of those
encouraged, and a disregard-holy in
itself-fOr the praise of men.
Mr. Bruner, you will observe, can
only speak for the work done in his
own commission. Perhaps no one,
save myself, who belongs to every
Church equally, (being simply q
"Primitlve CathOlic') has taken no.
tlce of the fact that LutherSns, Dis
ciplee, Episcopalian, Adventists,
Presbyterians as we'll as the Meth
odists, are all, not zen mssse," but
by the "Witness" that Christ has
everywhere, by the few here and the
few there who accept his call to be
Saints, showing mercy to the poor
and sympathy TO the afflicted.
AS one of the latter 1 can speak
feelingly. Suffering inexpressibly
among strangers, / have been the
recipient OF equally inexpressibly
kindness and consolation, so delicate
ly shown that not one petal of my
sensitive plant has been ruftled. You
having your own share in this.
In one respect there is, howeN or, q
very strong difference between the
mode in which mercy is shown by
these quiet brethren and sisters and
by some Of those now showing them
an example moro or less publicly.
A man has been here this morning
whose two children were taken care
OF ut the Dunkard Hospital for two
weeks after their mothers death. On
my expressing joy at the existence Of
so charitable an institution he ex-
planned that his lodge had paid three
dollars each week for each child 80
cared for. 1t appears to me that in
this case the Christ-likeness is more
clearly recognizable in the lodge than
in the Hospital management. This
remark, of course, does not apply
likewise to the case Of the sick lady
whose recovery in the Hospital is be-
ing no doubt, greatly assisted by
publication OF the fact that her hus-
band is a horsethief, whom her friends
have seen properly punished for his
crimes by the law before they eX-
tended to her the mercy of the gospel.
AS to the Salvation lassies, every
body knows and loves them Pope
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tant Elder, we all rise up and call
them Blessed. But "there are others"
here in lola and thank God for 1t.
Respectfully,
HENRY M. NJ. TUDOR.
Elder p. G. Church.
In the matter of the publication of
the fact that the husband of one of
the inmates of the Hospital was con-
victed OF horse stealing, the REGIS
TER wishes to assume the entire re-
sponsibility. The Dunkard brethren
have allowed the woman to cherish
the belief that her husband is limo.
cent and have never intimated to her
that iT was their horse which was
taken. And the REGISTER would
never have published the facts had it
not known that the wOman's illness Is
of such a nature that she can never
read the papers.
TIE REGISTER feels that it ought to
make it clear also that the Hospital
management has never claimed that
patients who were able To pay tor the
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able to pay for them, should be kept
free. The Hospital has no endow-
ment and no income except what 1t
gets from charity and from its
patients. The self-sacrificing men
and women who conduct it and who
nurse the patients have no salaries.
No one who is sick and destitute will
be turned away, but surely no one
who can pay would begrudge doing
it. The fact that those do pay who
are able or thats friends pay for them,
does not in the least detract from the
true Christian charity of the good
people who conceived the idea of
founding hospital in lola and have
carried ihe idea out Neither should
any reflection be cast upon these good
people because of the fact that their
almsgiving has been made subject
of pub ic comment. For many months
before the hospital was Thought of
they were engaged quietly and un.
obtrusively in their work Of charity
and nobody except the recipients Of
their kindness knew anything about
them. When they undertook toestab-
llsh hospital, the work was of such
a nature rs to be of general interest
and the newspapers therefore took it
up and published the facts concern
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