The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-09
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Concerning Pensacoas Charity HosbhaD By BONNIE BURHA


There is a time in the lives OF us all
else; when our man-nature Graves the
aid which can come from human kind
alone; when we cry for sympathy for
understanding, for companionship, or
for the touch Of a kindly hand.
Just so surely as our morning sun
rise hopes are softened in the after
glow Of a maturer insight into the uni
Nersal scheme Of things, there is a time
like this which creeps unannOunced
before the startled eyes of all of US,
and we hunger and starve and die a
million times for a touch of mere hu-
man charity
Probably you have witnessed this
need in one way or another.
Perhaps it has been a great loneh-
ness that has slipped across the blue
sky of your life like an autumn cloud;
perhaps it has been this-perhaps that;
but I DO not believe that there is
species of human woe in the world akin
to that of the helpless and i'll and un-
fortunate, who are SO often alone with
it all.
I do not believe that a stronger call
may be made upon the charitable side
of ell our various natures than that
which comes from the hopeless sick
and the helpless dying, and L do not
conceive that there is any one of US
who may well afford to remain unre-
sponsive to such a call
The situation is even in Pensacola
The Charity hospital, which has fully
demonstrated it's practicability and the
worthiness Of its being, represents just
such a call to Pensacola people, and
we may not we'll afford to let it Cd I'M
needed, this call, which is being made
to the charitable side of these natures
- ~
will be crying and calling for this
same charity in one form or another.
The Charity hospital represents a
great insistent public duty to us all, in
short in the necessary care to those Of
Gods UnfOrtunates who may be among
Us.
The Hospital.
Time was, and not SO far distant
when the charity hospital would have
seemed to totter and fall from the
sheer weakness Of the support it re
Ceived.
The work, which was great work.
but still in its infancy, could not be
carried on in quite the same manner
had the money Of a great number Of
continuously into its Golfers, and then
the climax came.
Mrs. T. V. Kessler, who, with her
lady assistants, had already accom-
pIished wonders, redoubled her efforts
and called upon the best people of the
city TO help her il her work
The public responded at length and
so did a very sufficient number Of the
citys best physicians, some Of whom
hit upon the practice OF taking pay
patients there TO aid in defraying the
general expenses of the institution.
There are now, under the present
highly successful regime, both those
who pay and those who do not, and the
fact that no one is ever turned away,
because he has not the money to pay,
is a good and sufficient reason for any
number Of others who have, to come
and 10 help the place along.
If a patient has a little money he
may pay modest amount per week.
If lie has nothing at all, it matters
little, because, in the new Charity hos
pital, you see, everyone is given every
fair Glance in the world for a brand
new lease on life.
Every public spirited, philanthrop-
icaIly inclined person in the city
should visit the institution, and wit
ness, for instance, what the doctors
are doing in the model little operating