The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-04
Baptist Sanitarium.


ly at the Baptist Sanitarium at
Dallas, and being much interested (
in the beautiful place, seeing so 7
many faces there who are officially
connected with the sanitarium, 1T
occurred to me that some mention .
of the sanitarium might be reGda-
BILE. While this subject might seem
out of harmony with woman's in
terests it should not be, for woman
is ever the ministering angel Of the
sick room From society to sanitar-
ium would seem a long and incon-
sistent stride, but for the fact that
woman is considered in both rela- Il
tons, and Sir Walter Scott remem-
bered both her frailty and her faith
fulness, when he wrote:
20 woman in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please,
And variable as the shade,
BY the light quivering aspen made, c
When pain and anguish wiring the G
brow,
A minstering angel thou.
And then the vocation Of the il
more than ever before to woman as is
a field for usefulness and power, r
and the nobility and sacrifice Of the in
profession is second only to that Of di
the foreign missionary. They give
up mirth and pleasure that the
young life loves, isolate themselves
from family and friends to minister
to the body. Perhaps their calling is ioi
even greater. because they dwell II
in the midst of heart -
ache. and the thousand natural ".
shocks that flesh is heir to-" Many stu
If them are true to their calling, 1--WE
md are thoroughly imbued with its = q
acredness, while others, like in all an
ocations of life are untrue to their III US
barge. Mrs, Sue Hunter, who is 50 tor
leasantly remembered to Waxaha- IAie
mans, is at the head of the linen 70 &
apartment of the Baptist Sanitar- ne
m, and through her courtesy proI
as enabled to see the great insti- laeh
zion tbat ie GRAND memorial t7 they
,,as partists - l. controlled NV Who'll
e Texas Baptist convention, many talk
dividuals giving $4,000 and ana
ore. 1t is called the Texas Rap- ak
st Memorial Sanitarium, and sure chle
q nbprcb could never better per tory
etuate its memory. High spires, en- 20
= NAin6 s, a, ,,,.t bet
aross when compared to the mem -
oriaA of a1ieviatins human suffer -
ing In charity hospitals To heal p
the sick is the bounden duty of the 10
church-just as much its duty and III
work as to minister to the soul "a
FrsI-- I
things spiritual, is as far short of %
Christ, as he who confined himself OF
TO the religion of humanity" Thus II
wrote Rev. Geo Whitfield Mead on tr'
Modern Methods in Church Hf
Work" And We know this is true, INA
because the church is awakening pa
more and more to the necessity Of
the foreign missionary having de-
knowledge Of medicine and surgery. me
This is not altogether a charity SCI
hospital but many over Texas who oef
are able to pay for service and sur shf
gerry go there The sanitarium has
had patients much nearer St Louis OF
than Dallas to come to them On du
the first floor of the sanitarium is PIE
little chapel with chairs and the
piano. where the nurses meet every Ing
morning before breakfast for pray me
er and song service. The supervisor wa
nurse makes talk impressing of
them with their sacred calling, and del
the good that they are to do. The pre-
institution has a dining room hard las
by. where the nurses have their del
meals. II is connected with the main ed'
building with a tunnel passage if Law