Milford chronicle., 1935-02-22
HOSPITAL
h NOTES


Hospital Sunday" February II,
was observed in more than forty
churches of all denominations in the
great community which is served by
the Milford Emergency Hospital and
from every pulpit went forth an urg-
ent appeal to all people in the COM
munity to support the movement for
the new hospital at Milford.
It was urged that the hospital is
the common meeting-place for all
people regardless of race, creed or
color, and that 1t is the great civic
interest which above all others de-
serves the united interest of all the
people in the community,
Such an appeal coming from a
united clergy indicates the high re-
gard in which the Milford Emergency
Hospital is held and encourages the
trustees to believe that all the peo-
pie to whom the appeal was made
win support the movement for the
new hospital to the utmost.
Rev. Frank Herson. D. D.. pastor
of the Avenue Methodist Church in
Milford, who is chairman of the
clergy in supporting the new hos
pital, spoke as follows:
Galatians VI:2. Bear ye one an
others burdens, and so fulfill the
law of Christ. "The word burdens
here is to be taken in a large and
comprehensive sense. 1t includes
everything that weighs man down,
or handicaps him in the race of life.
everything that dwarfs, or hinders,
or harnesses, or Obstructs him in
coming to the maximum of his
power.
Many of these burdens spring |
from the conditions of our living as |
we are now prisoned in the flesh. |
These physical burdens are caused |
sometimes by the necessities of our /
situation. sometimes we inherit |
them, sometimes we bring them up |
on ourselves through ignorance. But |
whatever be the source of our ply |
steal burdens-a weak body, a dis
eased body, deformed body, body
anywhere short of perfectiOn-is by |
just so much subtraction from what
we might be and do.
The true test of the divineness of
the church, lies not in our creeds
nor in our confessions. not in our
ordinances nor in our organizations.
but in our spirit of burden-bearing
Here is a glorious opportunity for
every son and daughter of this
church to hear the voice of the great
Physicians saying unto us as He said
unto the first disciples Heal the
Sick
Bear We one another's burdens.
Here is not merely an intreaty, but
a commandment, an injunction. We
then that are strong ought to bear
the infrmities of the weak. In this
new House of Mercy, this Bethesda
we all shall have part. Most of
US belong to the Guilty of Pity We
love to see folks get we'll. We are
affected by the aspect of physical
suffering among members of the vast
human family. We shall count our {
selves in solemn league with God |
to abate some fraction of the worlds I
fever and to mitigate a part of its
pain"
Rev FQsRplrs s. stTtnlaS tat of-
Christ Church. Milford, said that the {
hospital is the greatest civic inter-
est for all people in this part of Del !
aware. This is a common meeting ]
place for all of us" he declared.
"and every one of us has a wonder
full opportunity not only to help in I
building the new hospital, but in @
it," q
Mr.. Kinks offered special prayers I
IT. the altar for the success of the
hospital and for the doctors and the o
nurses. Christ" he said, "was the a
great healer. He ministered to the n
body as well as the soul. Physicians n
and surgeons do the same. There
ID no group of men who come nearer b
10 doing the work of Christ than do n
he doctors. They pour the oil and
vine into the gaping wounds of So d
,iety. a
II can testify that these men who pi
minister to the i'll and injured in our 81
community are doing Christ's work y
know from experience that they IL
ire spiritually-minded. They are III
Ill good men. A person i'll in hos c
lital often opens his heart more m
ully TO the physician or surgeon
han lie does to his priest or min &C
ster. in
Here is your great privilege. Get OF
'Sh4Au linl HlONSMNHl lOI TIE new | -
lospital. Give as you can and you
lever will regret it, There is no Ell
ivic interest in our community
which so uniteS us and calls for our
Inited support. May Gods blessing tn
est OH this hospital, OH its doctors be
nd its nurses and on its friends and m;
Importers" at
Rev. Alfred &. Jones, pastor of TIL
t. Johns Catholic Church, Milford. pit
lade stirring appeal, using the
Ext from Second Corinthians, TX, wa
z; "Heth at soweth little shall Jul
zap little; and he that sOweth l6t
Lenty shall reap plenty Let every BET
an do according as he is disposed Tu
his heart. not grudingly, or of day
ecessity; for God loveth cheerful 4
YER" pat
These, my dear people, are the sin
Ords of Jesus Christ Himself and All
Iould emphasize the appeal going 4;
rth. today from every pulpit in viii
wer Delaware appeal that Mil
ould touch every heart that is hui /;
an.