The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-02-18
METHODIST CHURCH
WILL AID HOSPITAL
BROWNSVILLE CHURCH ASKED
FOR A CONTRIBUTION.
Board of Stewards With Endorsement
of Brownsville Church viii
Undertake to Raise,
s5,ooo.0o

Rev. H. M. Ellis, field secretary Of
the Memphis Conference for the
Methodist hospital which will be estab-
lished in Memphis occupied the pulpit
at the Methodist church here last SUM-
day morning when he made an earnest
appeal in behalf of that institution.
On Monday afternoon the Stewards
of the church were called together by
the chairman, ]. o. Bonner, for the
purpose Of further discussing the mat
ter with Rev. Ellis and Presiding Elder
Johnston, both of whom were present.
After the subject had been fully dis
cussed the following resolution was
read and adopted:
"In as much as the Methodists of
the Memphis, Mississippi, North Mis-
sissippi and North Arkansas confer
ences have agreed to build hospital
in the city Of Memphis, and recogniz-
ing the ever increasing. need of such
an institution, and having heard that
$4,000 will endow room perpetually
in said hospital, and wishing to dis
charge our duty in some measure to
our fellow sufferers, and to inspire
others in this noble work,
"Resolved, That we, the official
board Of the Brownsville Methodist
church, Memphis conference, pledge
ourselves to undertake the raising of
this amount within the next five years
provided our action here shall receive
the endorsement of our church when
placed before it."
If this $4,000 is raised by the
Brownsville church it will be used to
endow room perpetully in the Meth
odist hospital contemplated. This room
would lways be open to charity pa
tients from this church and such pa
tients would receive, absolutely free
the best service the hospital could rem
der, including room, the services of a
nurse, the attention of the hospital
physician and operating surgeon, and
in fact, every service and attention
to be rendered in such an institution.
When there was not such patient
occupying the room from this church
the hospital authorities wuld use the
room for other charity patients. No
patient occupying this room would
ever be charged for any service, but
! the room would be used for charity
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| The site for this hospital has al
.eady been purchased and embraces
nine acres ideally located in the city
of Memphis for hospital purposes. On
this property is large three-story
house which with the expenditure OF
something like $4,000 will be ready
for use and would accommodate fifty
patients. As soon as arrangements
can be completed it is expected that
the hospital will be opened, but of
course the work will not stop there.
Expensive additions will be added and
fully half million dollars will be ex-
pended in this way. When the insti-
tuition is completed it will be one of
the most modern, commodious and well
equipped institutions Of the kind to be
found in the south.
Quite a sum of the necessary
amount has been raised and the large
membership of the conferences inter-
ested in the institution insures the sue
cess of the movement, which is per-
haps the most important and far
reaching in good and Christian results
to be obtained in the name of human
ity that the Methodists of this sec
tion have ever undertaken.