The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26

Should you grant this amendment
 and allow the improvements to be
 made, the water which floods the
 streets and the bathhouses will be l conducted out of the city into the | Ouachita River and will make Hot 1 Springs what was intended when re- serVed-a blessing to suffering hu-
 manity. I sincerely hope that the Members of this House will cheer
 fully agree to this appropriation. The | money vii be well, wisely, and hu-
 namely expended. You must remem-
 ber that charity is the paramount ] virtue, that all else is but sounding
 brass and a tink'ilg of a cymbal."
 The city of Hot Springs, which is | located largely to the south and
 southwest from the Hot Springs | Mountain, has caused to be construct
 cd extensive sewers and has expend-
 ed thousands of dollars, but which | has proven to be insufficient to take l care of the storm and flood waters | from the mountains on the reserYa- | tiol, and since the Government of the 1 United States owns this reservation | l am sure our great people would not | hesitate or complain about the ex- | penditures necessary to make these needed improvements.
 Senator Kenyon. of Iowa, in speak
 ing in favor of this amendment the
 other day, said 'T have been there
 when the town was simply flooded
 and the sewers could not take care i of the flood waters" and further l said that this water pours down | from the mountains on the Govern
 ment reservation, flowing onto the streets' Senator Kenyon has often
 visited Hot Springs and knows where of he speaks.
 I do nope, MT. Speaker, that this
 amendment will be agreed to. God put these waters in the mountain for sufferers, and their great uses should not be retarded.
 When Christ was walking through
 the valleys and over the hills of Ju- dea, visiting the homes where disease and distress prevailed in order that
 He might bring relief and comfort to the sick and the sorrowing, He found in one small space a pool of water
 called the Pool of Bethseda. Around it gathered day by day a crowd of the afflicted. who were placed beside the pool by their friends, awaiting | for the good angel to trouble the wa l ters and then it was that these poor | invalids were dipped in to receive a | blessing and a cure. As time moved
 on our heavenly Father saw that the increasing ages and populations would bring more afflictions to hu-
 manity and that greater opportunity | for the blessings of health must be provided The Alseeing Eye evident 1 ly scanned the great swelling brows l of the mountains in Spain, France.
 and Italy, and the various beautiful
 valleys in these countries. He then | looked over the immense reach of the Alps. with their snow peaks ''pin-
 nacled dim in the intense inane," but | He saw no advantageous grounds for Bethseda in that great scope of country. He then cast His eye over | the Appalachian system, that stretch
 es from the turbid waters of the St. | Lawrence River to the deep blue
 along that majestic reach of noun tains engaged His attention. He 1 then looked over the mighty and eter- nal grandeurs and sublime solitudes
 of the gigantic Rockies, from where | they take their beginning in the far
 off ice fields of Alaska to where they , lose their mighty range in the bur1- | ing sands and storm-raging waters of the Straits of Magellan. but He saw no encouraging spot along that 10000 miles of broken grandeur. He then | looked over the line of the Ozarks,
 waving their modest green p'umes | from Missouri to Texas, and He dis | covered an uapretending little valley 1 in Arkansas where the city of Hot | Springs was afterwards located. He
 touched the spirit of the earthquake
 and the giant arose and heaved up | the mountains on his shoulders and
 shook them apart and out came these
 hot waters, sparkling with radium
 and other medicinal qualities, in- spired at every moment and in every | drop by the healing presence of un. 1 tirinlg angels, and here the lame and
 halt, and afflicted from all over this land and from other parts of the earth come to get the healing bless ing. Here the iron sinews of rheu- matism are united; here the steel
 fingers of paralysis are unloosed; here the agonies of the pain king are
 soothed and the crutches and chairs
 of iavalids are thrown on the junk | pile, while the whole valley and the
 mountain side are made vocal with | the grand acclaims of those who have been restored to health, and from every lip comes that grandest of all | doxologies:
 | Praise God, from whom all blessings