Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-08-30
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and the people receive them with good
will, as has been the case in Hot
Springs. There are, however, degrees
of success, and you, the citizens of Hot
Springs, and 1, who had more to do
with the 10. ating of the hospital here
than I care to say, and the sistersthem-
selves desire the very highest degree
Of success Tor the HospiLalo of Our Lady
of Lourdes, Hot Springs, So. Oak. All
of us desire that this institution will
be q monument of the highest type %,
hospital success. II IS ii l stake nv
veracity that the Sisters will not bs
wanting i'll their efforts in matt
ing this institution ia ideal monu
ment of hospital success, II, in Other
words, in making Hot Springs, S. d..
as famous for hospital facilities, care
and nursing as it is for the healthful
ness Of it's climate and the curative
qualities of it's waters. - * i Not for
honor, not for promotion, not for pay,
for all these the spirit of their relig-
ious vocation forbids them to seek, but
for vastly higher motives-the duty
they owe to the Fatherhood of God,
and the duty they 1--WE to the brother
hood of man, are the sublime motives
that will impell them to heroic efforts
to make this hospital a uccess The
spirit of their religious life teaches
them that all their duties are assigned
to them by God, first for his own glory
and secondly for the greater good of
humanity. Therefore they would con-
sider.it a breach of the duty they owe
to God and man to neglect in the
slightest a patient under their care,
and would by consequence account
themselves guilty of sin for that slight
negligence. 1t is easy to see from this,
the CONSCIENTIOUS work that will be
done by the nurses of this hospital.
Such work will have a far reaching
effect in favor of Hot Springs, for pa
tients thus cared for will be loud in
their praises of the Sisters in every di-
rection-north, south, east and west.
They will be able to say that Hot
Springs, So. Oak, ~excells, not only in
climate and the curative qualities of its
waters, but especially in its hospital
facilities and the conscientious care
given to patients. s. There shall
be no salaries or wages paid for work
done within the walls of this institu-
tion; all that the Sisters will receive in
return for their work day and night
will be their food and clothes. They
look to God for an adequate recon-
pense for their great sacrifice. But
what becomes of the money? Every
cent of it will go into the institution
for the greater convenience and CON-
fort of the sick. Every year will have
its own improvements both internal
and external, and after attending to
the yearly demands of the debt, the
balance of the income will go to these
improvements. This is truly a Hot
Springs institution, keeping all its re-
sources at home. The Sisters never
keep money on deposit in banks or
elsewhere, nor do they YER put money
out at interest; it will all go back, as I
have said, into the institution for the
greater convenience and comfort of the
patients. This hospital supplies
q long felt want in Hot Springs. It is
needless to remind you that a health
resort without a first. class hospital is
lacking in n of its chief features.
You now will have one and it behooves
the citizens of Hot Springs to leave
aothiDg undone to promote it's inter.
ests, for its interests are their interests.
There is no feature of Deadwood's
equippage as a city more appreciated
b. its people than the hospital which
these Sisters started there about two
years ago; but if this be SO in a
purely commercial town, how much
more so, should a f~irst-class hospital
bs appreciated by the people of a town
which is health resort. The people
Of Deadwood were quick to discern the
crest value of q (first-class hospital in
their town, andD from the beginning
thsy took . local pride in it's success;
TT interest and pride did not stop