The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-10-30

BISHOP or cRooksToN SPEAKS
At DEDICATION or SISTERS
HOSPITAL IN THAT clTY-vAL.
uE or SCIENTIFIC NURSING
HOSPITALS FORMERLY AND
NOW.
Last Sunday the franciscan Sisters
Of the Immaculate Conception Of Little
Falls, Mimi, opened the new hospital
which they had just purchased at
Moorhead. Right Reverend Timothy
Corbet.. D. D., spoke as follows at the
dedication
Bishops Address.
This beautiful ceremony of dedica-
ton is indeed a remarkable and tell
ing event for the growing and impor-
tant city OF Moorhead in placing it's
hospital under the direction and man.
agement of Catholic Sisterhood.
From time immemorial the Catholic
Church, in her great solicitude for af-
hicted mankind, erected and super
vised similar institutions to the entire
satisfaction of all concerned. Saints
of God in the Christian Era alleviated
ailing men and women In imitation of
their Divine Model, Christ Jesus the
! Lord, Master and Teacher, who loved
and healed the sick. Until the Re-
deemer of the world appeared on
earth, human pain made little or no
impression on mankind. The stricken
were uncared for, neglected, yea, des-
pissed; but Christian charity, enthron-
ed by the Saviour, shortly changed
the face of the world. Human cruel
ty yielded to loving kindness.
Pope Symmachus instituted hospi-
tai for the sick in the sixth century;
Pope Pelagius ii founded one under
his own roof; Pope ST. Gregory built
hospital: St Basil opened one, and
st. Chrysostom erected another. In
the so-called dark middle ages, which
intellectual men now style the en-
lightened ages, there existed, in
France alone, twenty thousand hos
pitfalls. Today half the hospitals of
America are under Catholic auspices
and Catholic Sisterhoods.
ExcelIency of Sister Nurses.
The very vocation of the Venerable
Sisters pre-eminently fits them for
proficient management of the homes
of suffering humanity. Thoroughly
imbued with supernatural motives,
they perform the arduous work of
nursing diligently for the love of God
and out of charity for the benefit OF
neighbor for the sake of God. They
Esee Christ, the Divine EXemplar, in
the suffering. Christian brotherly love
is, indeed, only an extension and
amplification of the love of God Prac.
fore, positively form the badge of all
true followers of Christ.
Divine charity certainly dominates
every action of those worthy Sisters
Considering their profession as a
cherished art and not as a simple
trade, or a means of livelihood, or a
source of acquiring wealth, they de-
vote themselves lovingly and heart
fully to their assigned position
| Spending lives apart from the world
and regardless of its appreciation
cheerfully do they give their best eff
forts, after God, to their duty. Unset
| fish interest constitutes their consci
entious- aim. No unprecedented mortal
will presume to deny that no other
body of women in the United States
can accomplish work so satisfactor
| lily as Catholic Sisters, because they
! labor in a consecrated manner. Nc
self-seeking or frivolous pleasure cap
| tivates their hearts, but proficiency
| in their profession under God forms
their keynote. Night and day fine
| them at their post. The world s. mo
tives enter not their Christian minds
Divine and human laws receive due re
spect, under their administration
Without the assistance of competent
and right-minded nurses the treatmen
of physician may become ineffective
useless, yea, harmful.
The Necessity of Health.
| Human life is a precious gift O
God to man. Every lawful mean:
must, therefore, be assumed to protec
and preserve human life, whose author
is God, and, consequently, human
| health After Gods glory and the
salvation of immortal souls our motto
should be, sound mind in a sount
| body Ruined and impaired healtl
renders men unsuitable, yea, some
| times, incapacitated for the various
/ avocations of life. A sad specimen
would those soldiers represent, who's
bodies are weakened by disease. Det
rimental would be their presence il
times of internal troubles, strifes ant
wars. The material building-up of ;
nation would suffer enormously from
unhealthy and feeble bodies. Phys
ical strength is absolutely needed t
bring forth the wealth of a country.
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