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Show I SERVICE TO HUMANITY PERFORMED IN HOSPITALS Yesterday 'the Standard-Examiner urged the citizens of Ogden to contribute con-tribute to the now hospital and enu- merated the different elements ol in.' community that can afford to give to i he caupr. Todaiy we present a word of prai for all hospital-? in their power for sood, as wiiiien by "The Spectator": The best proof that Ihe world is getting on Is the hospital. The critics of our civilization ina I make out some sen of case when they charge we have backslidden in art since the days of Leonardo, i in architecture since the age of cathedrals, in literature since the time of Shakespeare, and in piety since the era of the Crusades, but the most atrabilious disbeliever In modernity must be rather put to it 1 to maintain his thesis Of universal decay when he ses two things, the public school and !h hospital, neither of which our pious and gifted forefathers had nor wanted. 1 The hospital is the perfect flower or civic consciousness M is tle community organised in it- leasl - objectionable vvh. It points Mic way to the new religion, the kind mankind will have when it outgrows Its present pettiuess, when all the ancient disputes shall have faded from sheer exhaustion, and all the rl nlries and heats of h OS til it) shall have been outgrown as the erode egotisms of adolescence; when every form of organized hale shall have died of old age, and only love Is young As the tenderest sentiment and sturdiest loyalty of the family gathers around the invalid and the little child, so the very finest expression ex-pression of the state is in its hospitals hos-pitals and pubiie schools. Think how quick, bowf discip lined and soldierh efticienl a modern cit's hospital service is. There's nothing like li in history. The author tells of the quick work of the hospitals in New York when 11 he explosion occurred in Wall Btreel this past summer. Within five minutes after the bomb had burst, the first wounded person was in the hospital Before an hour hail elapsed the 394 victims had been cared Tor. This was the humanitarian side of a great city supposed to be thorough! materialis tic, greedy and cold. In one hospital in this metropolis of business are om helpless children, unable un-able to walk, with crooked logs and back. In another are 400 Incurable elderly cripples and invalids At one of the largest institutions hundreds of afflicted are treated daih without charge. It is estimated thai S000 receive re-ceive free medical aid in these institutions insti-tutions each day. h'en the colored people have a hospital hos-pital where 175 men anil women, too distressed to help themselves, live. No service in public welfare is more worthy of support than the hospital where those racked with pain and disturbed dis-turbed in mind may he comforted. |