New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-06
AID FOR HOSPITAL
DR.. Fmrdr DeUotes His Chill
dren's Sermon to the Work.


day morning BY the junior congregation az
the First Reformed Church. Seventh ave
nUe and Carroll street Brooklyn, and u
sI'ecial collection was taken up for seney
Hospital. OF which the pastor. the Rev.
Dr. James N Farrar. ex-prssident OF the
General synod OF the Reformed Church in
America, Is a director
The topic of the children's sermon was
The Yex Hospital" and the text. Heal
me. for my bones are vexed' PsaIm vi, >.
DT. Fsrrar said:
There are two little companions who are
very etese friends. The name o. one is Nex
loom in your heart. but often lodges In
some other part OF your BODY. Cry mas q
room, with bath, Just back OF your eye.
NO one has ever seen Nex, but his shadow
look bright the shadow hides. for he is very
HLch AFRAID OF light Cry has little
out on your cheek when Esx calls for
nisIp. LCokns through this tear you can
Our text tells US OF a man who called
5eal me, for my bones are yexed." Nsx,
the little torment. had taken a room in the
hollow OF this mans bones Cry rolled out
70 call Tor help friend. whose name is
sympathy. was very sorry for the man
whom Nex was tormenting. and decided to
was lodging. one OF these hospitals was
putt near our church. and lC Is called
, ser When any one says. Heal me.
Tor my bones are vexed," We ring up an
ambulance and hurry him to the hospital
There he Is cared for. and Vex is taken
cut OF his bones. Medicine will often drive
Nex out but sometimes the patient must
be put 10 sleep while the surgeon takes
Nex out with Z knife.
what do you suppose becomes OF Nex
when ne * taken out OF his Lodging? This
: the question I want to answer. This
Little torment, vex, is changed intO sons
Ihe hospital IL a place where pain -
turned into praise and into JOY. II your
eyes we're brighter you would behold Nex
Cry, Pain. Moan and Sorrow iying out
Tcoa1s. flying like sOnsbirds into the air.
l. your ears were little Heener You
as they hy. The angels can sec them hy
and hear them sing In this Nex hospital
sympathy asks you 10 furnish more rooms,
TO secure more doctors, more nurses and
more medicine. sympathy wants 70 have
= larger place, with more doctors AMI
nurses, so that every day he can change
Gladness. \ little fairy. called Parody.
says that when an Offering is received
tory but In is so low and sweet that only
little children can hear. Parody, nv little
fairy, gave me the words They are a
secret. but want you to know them.
Here they are:
Sing song Of six Pence.
Four-snd-twenty Tsx cries.
Cured without lash
When the Hospital vas opened.
they al began 20 sing.
Was not that . splendid gift
To set before oEr King?
DO ! hear you say. The sermon IS long
enough. now tell US story Very well
here IS story ycu will all enjoy.
There is nan in Tacoma, Wash, who
every year has hundreds % birds brought
to his home from different parts OF this
rooms they are taught 70 sing and ~
through the house until their songs are
sweet and their wigs are strong. When
enough he opens the windows. and away
they NJ ILnnets, goldfnches. English
country 90 our from his bird hospital 70
make boys and girls happy Some OF them,
H. very high, and sing half for the angels
and half for boys and girls
Last spring this man, whose name ia Dr.
Charles McCutcheon, set free five hundred
birds Of seven varieties. all strong or wing
did this he answered: Ever since I was
a boy in England I have dreamed OF The
DAYS when l relied upon the green and
listened 70 the skylarks and inchss. I al
ways said would have q cage OF these
birds In nv home. But II IS q sin 70 con-
beauty about landscape that has It's
song birds which is not seen in a stretch
OF country that is as still as a tomb
The birds are made happy, and they make
the world happy. Would IL not be nice
TO fln-think that all these song birds were
once called Vex, Cry. Pain. Sorrow. Heart
ache and other like names? Then TO fun
think that all these torments living IN your
body can be set free as song birds OF joy and
gladness. Every time you pass hospital
think Of IL as a great Joy house, where we
take Vex and Pahn. Tears. Sorrow and
Heartaehe and change them into smiles
Joys. health and happiness.
The Home OF Sympathy. there we take
scores OF people who cry out. Heal me. for
my bones are vexedr' Then think OF how
often the windows OF the hospital are
opened and from them sorrow and Pain
~ out as song birds 70 make the world
happier and better