The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-02-18
THE HOSPITAL AGAIN.
The Rev. d. d. Dantzler Writes In
terestingly About 1t.


In No. 2, was made to say too
much for the hospital. 1t cannot
hope to restore jeople to life after
they are dead. In the second para
graph, l think 1 wrote from death S
door,"
The design Of the promoters of the
hospital is not to make money; and
hence, the joint stock basis has been
abandoned. Their sole design is to
relieve human suffering. To do this
they must have little piece of land
with a suitable building. The build
ing must be provided with a few
beds, an operating room and steriliz-
ing apparatus, a culinary department,
and so forth. A superintendent or
head nurse with corps of trained
nurses, and a housekeeper.
The basis now, is simply an asso-
citation, called "The Orangeburg Hos
pital Association with a board OF
managers. The Association has it's
president, who is Miss Ida Ransdale.
Its secretary is Mrs. A. G. Ligon, who
keeps record OF all the proceedings
Its treasurer is Mrs. r. H. Jennings,
who is authorized to receive, and re-
quired to account for all the funds of
the Association. Any white person
in town or country may become a
member Of the association by the
payment Of 80 cents admission fee,
and afterwards small annual due of
30 cents or $1.00. But the present
pressing need is larger contributions
in order TO get started. Contribu-
tions not in the nature of an invest
ment that will bring back interest
in dollars and cents, but gifts. Con-
tributions that will carry relief to the
suffering, and also rebound in heap
ing, running-over measure to the
giver, in ways that he or she never
dreamed of. You say that I COM
menced these little papers with SEN
timentalism? Will you now, please
follow me on rock-bottom lines? May
| not assert that a contribution to
the relief of human suffering is, in
reality, an investment 1t is an in
vestWent that will bring good inter-
est in far better coin than dimes. Let
me refer to the Book of books, before
whose divine Author every knee
shall bow. Are we not frequently
reminded that all the property, real
and personal, to which we hold an
earthly title is really not ours, and
that even we, ourselves are not our
own?
THE earth is the Lords and the
fullness thereof; the world and they
that dwell therein" Psalm PAL. See
in the Sth, 9Th and 10th chapters Of
Exodus what simple means were en-
ployed to show who was Proprietor
and who was servant. We are only
servants, stewards, appointed to man
age that which our Employer has put
in our hands. Not a dollar is ours
beyond our living wages and we
stand in jeopardy every hour Of be-
ing discharged from our stewardship.
We are completely. and helpIessly,
in the hands of our great Landlord,
who may dismiss lis any hour and by
the loadstone Of an ineXorable law,
we shall gravitate to His office for
the final settlement. We shall stand
before Him without avestage of mater
ial substance. Even gold is not cur
rent in that Country. We must have
exchange. We cannot draw without
collateral. I therefore submit it as
a safe and wise business proposition
that we make liberal deposits here,
that will be distinctively to our cred
it there.
Feb. IT. 1908. D. D. DantZler.