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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 979, 17 September 1881, Page 2

While writing on the question of Hospitals, and other charitable institutions ; and in view of the fact that the Hospital Committee are inaugurating a festival for St. Andrew’s Day, for the benefit of the funds of that institution, would it not be as Well to begin—late in the day as it may appear—to drawl in the footsteps of more advanced communities, and have a Hospital Sunday ? These have ever met with a hearty response at the hands of a generous public, in other places, and we feel confident one day so set apart would make a handsome return. We do get into such a prosaic habit of spending our Sabbath days, that, according to parson law, and the influence of Sabbatical sack-cloth and ashes, no one dare look his neighbor in the face, or shake hands with a friend, on that day, without subjecting himself or herself to the accusation of some sinister design in desecration of the holy day of rest. To live at home we must look abroad; and, acting on that rule, we think the Hospital Committee would act just as wisely, and quite as beneficently, in holding a Hospital Sunday, as a St. Andrew’s fete. For our part let’s have them both.