The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-16
NORFOLK HOSPITAL
SEMI CENTENN|AL
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riflcIng SO much for the good humanity
White, who has just addressed you, II
Is the spirit which prompts them in sac.
1t Is the spirit Of Christ, OF our blessed
Saviour; for of all his virtues. none were
perhaps SO conspicuous as charity and
benevoence toward the poor, and 1t wes
a salient part Of his characteristic virtues
Look at the miracles OF Christ. 1t was
the simple things, the works Of charity.
and not the. greater things that He did
which are conspicuous.
He did not turn rivers into blood or.
like Joshua, cause the sun to stand stu
In the heavens; nor,+ as the Prophet Eli
jah, call for fire to descend from out OF
the heavens; and once, when the disciples
importuned him to make fire rain from
the heavens upon the people who would
not give them succor and q place to
rest, His reply was, = came not to de-
stroy, but to save mankind"
Ciracles Of Christ.
The miracles which Christ wrought
were doing good unto mankind. he
healed the sick. gave sight to the blind,
hearing to the deaf. and speech to the
dumb: He raised the dead unto life,
and 1t is this example set by the blessed
Redecmer8 In relieving the sufferings Of
the human body and in lifting up man
kind that we owe for such institutions
as that of this hospital
ElH.'It is to him that we are all Indebted
for the noble work Of the good sisters
of charity. For my part, I can conceive
OF no phase of religion that appeals to me
more than that oflorganized charity.
'They have infant asylums where the
little waits who are abandoned by inhu-
man mothers, or, perhaps, whose mothers
t+,t,o Ffrcr dPrrae OF wise
providence, are taken inland cared for
by these nursing mothers, these virgin
mothers. They not only watch at the
threshold of life. but they rock the cradle
Z of life and death: they carry the re-
ligion into the camp and into the battle
field and wherever physical disea Sc may
be cared for they Will be found minister
ing to all alike, regardless of religion
or creed
The Other Speakers.
Following the Cardinal, former Governor
Montague spoke. He is favorite befora
the Norfolk audiences, and his address to-
night was no disappointment. He con-
graduated the city on having such an
institution as st. Vncents Hospital in It,
and urged the people Of the city to give
1t the support which 1t deserves.
Or. Virgil p. Glbney. surgeon-in-chlef tc
the hospital for the relief of the ruptured
and crippled, New York, and who Is said
to have cured more Of the manned and
halt than any living surgeon in the world
followed the former Governor by the
reading OF learned paper on the work
of the surgeon and place filled In thu
world by the hospital,
Dr. y. Allison Hodges. President OF thu
University College of Medicine, was thu
|.last speaker.
His was an oratorical tribute to the use
fulness OF the modern hospital and to tn
nurses who minister In them.
An orchestra and the naval post BAN
and some of Norfolk's best singers adde
to the evenings entertainment by tn
rendition of several musical numbers.
High Pontifical Mass.
Cardinal Gibbons presided at high ponti
fIcal mass ut ST. Mary's Church TIL
morning. FIe occupied the cardinal
seat on tho right of the chancel. On hi
right was Bishop Van De Vyver. o
Richmond the celeMant Of the, occasion
attired In the robes OF his Office.
3 Tomorrow morning the cardinal ant
others who took part in the celebration
will be taken on a trip to the James towr
Exposition grounds, as the guests OF the
Exposition Company.