The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-03


 Jeiks. fin one of the sweetest of all the New Testament stories, hound ID the travellers wounds and fed him at an inn. The teachings of the greatest of aii pro fessors Is the foundation upon which you, good fathers. have builded in all the great cities of the country. a home for
 the unfortunate invalid, supplied with and
 without price Next to the housing of orphaned and helpless babes, yours Is the greatest charity any city or country can know.
 Build you here home for the sick with foundations as deep as your sym pathy and love for the unfortunate. with Halls and floors as substantial as the life and hope you give to all who enter. Those who contribute to great enter prises like this will be allowed to carry indeed laying up where thieves and rust may not steal or corrode. Blessings up-
 on the donors to this great undertaking. A modern poet has exauisitely said: The only things, at the last. which we can hold in our cold, dead hands are the things we have given away
 I wish your venture every sYccess.
 Hon. E. B. Joseph, Mayor of Montgom- Kohn: as the representative of the peo- pie of the Capital City of Alabama.
 Mayor Joseph. like Governor Jelks. dug up spadeful of earth and made a brief that the charity dispensed by the noble order of the Sisters of Charity knew no creed. He said he believed he fairly rep resented the people of Montgomery in bidding Godspeed to the Sisters ofsChar- fly in the great work they are undertak- Rev. A. J. Messing. Jr.. followed Mayor Joseph. After using tho spade Mir. Mes tomary grace. Turning to Rev. Father
 SavaEs and in the exquisite lines of Hood
 Shall ask the brave soldier who fights
 In the cause of mankind if our creeds do agree?
 Shall l give up the friend I have valued
 If he kneel not before the same altar Continuing. Mir Messing spoke as fol- l lows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen: As we break | the soil on which shall rise that noble in- stitution of which our city shall be so | justly proud. let lis recall the ,g-ea4 words of Cardinal Gibbons, uttered at the
 cWorlds Parliament 1Ias of RelisSns Sirso at at | faith, thank God there is one platform on which we all stand and that is the platform of charity and benevolence.' Let zealots and sectaries rage and the l heather mediate a vain thing, never has l the sick man, irrespective of creed or class, been more unselfishly cared for | than under the protecting aegis of the | ancient church. Show me the garret or the
  | to penetrate. Tell me of the pestilence | which her heroes have not braved in their errands of mercy.
 Tn the bosom of the church sleeps l Vincent .le Paul. tho guardian angel of | the ilospice at Marseilies The church has | given to the world q Fenelon, the sage 1 of Cambray. who converted his own house | into an infirmary for the Protestants and ! who personally ministered to the wounds | of hIs enemies. See Father Damien in | the pest-ridden leper dens of Molokai.
 Behold him willing to immolate himself upon the altar of unselfishness just to | stay the hand of the devastating plague. | and tell me if that is not the hottest | martyrdom which the world has ever wit | messed From tho Church of Rome have | come the Sisters of Mercy, the heroines | of gentle charity, who have spent their
 days hanging sweet pictures of faith and | love in silent galleries of sunless lives and l whose memory shall not perish from the | earth.
 sailed from England for the cholera | camps of the Crimea. In her little band 1 of nurses there were ten Roman Cathoiic | Sisters and history has no brighter page
 ministrations in the hospitals of Scutari: On the battlefield of 1nkerman. 5,0Ot | wounded were committed to their care | and no question of race or creed or color | was asked, but like the gentle dews from
 heaven their charity fell upon all alike. | The name of the chief of this heroic band has resounded in both hemspheres, bu, in every Sister of Mercy you have an other Florence Nightingale, with this d1f-
 ference-that like ministers of grace they | move without noise along the path or dutS
 and like the angel Raphael who conceaied his name from Tobias, the Sister hides her name from the world.
 ITO the holy men and women who nave | brought this enterprise to such a sue cessful issue. the Jewish people of Mont. l gomery in this suspicious hour extend | ,tY, a al a.
 tions. In pursuing your task you have | been singularly free from all degrading | jealousies. You have despised every un- | fair art which promised to raise you at l the expense of a rival. Your watchword
 seems to have been the Tenth Command ment which, in it's last clause, unques-
 tionably contains this special rule for | infirmaries, Thou shalt not coTet thy l neighbours patients.
 And now that the time has come we l wish you God-speed. We pray with you | that this building may add to the grace 1 and glory of life. May 1t delight Tn onlces | of good to those who are cast down. May l it relieve the suffering and distressed: | May it desire by all it's legislation and policy to pursue the things which procure l and preserve amity and peace among men | and which subdue the heart to the amenl- ties of love. And If toward consummadng l these grand aims assistance be needed, | none stand more willing to cooperate | with you than the chivalrous people whom l l have the honor to IepreSeht FHo 'h"H l working together hand in hand | " Only the Master shall praise us ana | only the Master shall blame;
 And no one shall work for money ana l aone shall work for fame; | But each for the joy of working, and | each in his separate star.
 l Shall draw the thing as he sees 1t, for the l God of the things as they are | At the conclusion of the remarks or
 MT. Messing. Chairman Kohn introduced l Rev. Edward F. Cobbs, rector of St. | Johns Episcopal Church, as "a distin- 1 ruished young man who has been reared | in this city and recently called to be | clergyman of one of the large churches | of MontRomery; young man who IS the | grandson of one whose character and | life furnished lesson in charity and
 benevolence."
 the spade and then addressing the as | sembly spoke in part as follows
 We are reminded of two facts by the
 associations and ceremonies of this hour
 the one we cannot easily forget. the oth- | CT we must not lightly estimate. First,
 we live in a world of pain and sorrow: l a. world of aching limbs and breaking | hearts; a world of wringing hands and | streaming eyes. So He only of all the l children of men who could truly be call
 cd the Son of Man was also called the | Man of Sorrows and for us. in this life | at least. the two seofn' linked together | Pain may be a dark mystery. Pain may be a hard element in our theology | Pain may at some time seem irreconcil- | able with the idea of the love of God. 1 but say what YOU will. philosophizo as you can. theoriZe as you may. pain Is
 the most real thing in life. You may not | he a man of poverty. You may not be Il 1P