MOUNT IDA HOSPITAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 135, 29 September 1871, Page 3

MOUNT IDA HOSPITAL.

m We are glad to hear that the Provisional Hospital Committee elected at the public meeting of the 15fch in*t. are Betting zealously to work, and put* ting their shoulders nobly to the wheel : in support of this great and good cause. We are, nevertheless, sorry to find that there a»-e some who attempt to throw cold water upon the movement, and predict for it a failure. Whether it will be a failure rests with the people of the district, and much will also depend upon the gentlemen who may be I elected as the D-st Committee of Man* ! ajremeut on Ihe 9th of October. If, on I the one hand, the Committee attempt jto go to the length of keeping up a , full-fledged hospital staff, with resident surgeon, warder, nurßea, &c, &c, then there is no doubt that there may be some truth in the prophecies of the evil prophets. If, on the other hand r they are content to carry out the movement in a spirit of economy and j moderation, looking to the substance rather than to the shadow—the real rather than the ideal—the useful rather than the ornamental—then we, for our part, have not the most remote doubt of success. Subscription lists are al. ready in print, and copies have, we understand, been sent to the various outlying centres of population in the district, and we earnestly hope and trust that, at the public meeting to be held on Monday, the 9th of October, such a list of names and such an amount of money will be reported as will put an end to the question of failure and success. Miners, the ?ase is one in which you are nearly all equally and personally interested. In the arduous and perilous mode of life which you have adopted you are, more than any other portion of the community, liable to accidents, in addition to the ordinary evils and diseases to which all flesh is heir. Shut not your eyes to the fact that, though so far you have escaped, you are not the less liable to accident. Come forward, then, in a true spirit of philanthropy, and one and all of you assist to the utmost of your power in the furtherance of a movement and the support of a cause which is a just and honorable, a glorious—nay, we might with truth say—a Holy one. To each member of every daw of the community throughout the Mount Ida District we would say—Rally round and support the Hospital movement, and if you be rich give plenty—if Vou possess but little, give of that little—remembering the Divine assurance that if you cast your bread upon the waters it will return after many days.