Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1874. "MEASURES, NOT MEN."

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 387, 2 September 1874, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1874. "MEASURES, NOT MEN."

In files received per last mail, we have a glimpse of Hospital Sunday in the British metropolis. That excellent and praiseworthy observance was established through the agency of Sir Sidney Waterlow when Lord Mayor, and his successor, Lord Mayor Lusk, lias heartily seconded his efforts. It is reported that on Sunday, the 34th June, the chief magistrate of tho city, with the sheriffs and corporation, attended in their state robes at St. Paul's Cathedral, where they were received by the Dean, and with a large congregation listened to an urgent appeal on behalf of the fund from the Bishop of Rochester, who dwelt on the characteristics of the Saviour's work on earth, recorded by ihe evangelist Matthew in the words "Healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of diseases among the people." In the afternoon the city officials attended Westminster Abbey, where Dean Stanley, in enforcing a similar appeal, adverted to the fact that while most other institutions of Christian benevolence had been productive of evils and abuses, necessitating changes in which some had been swept away, the hospitals for the sick had for the most part escaped such influencies. The proceeds, it is believed, will exceed tho £30,000 realised the previous year. All the congregations not having made their collections on the one Sunday, an accurate report could not be rendered, but those already to hand promised equal, if not greater, results than the preceding year. | Wo call attention to this observance in London with a view to provoke our fel-low-colonists to copy it. The Christian conscience is all the healthier when it takes in all that belongs to man's wants.' It will commend the sympathetic attention of those whom it would benefit spiritually all the more readily that it is willing to consider man'B temporal and

physical wants, so as to minister to them. We, therefore, rejoice at the initiation of such an annual observance in London, and we hope to see the same established as an annual institution among ourselves. We say this, and say it all the more freely, that we have spoken our mind on the recent abuses of our Hospital ; and we trust that in the matter of the revision of rules, the present Committee will so effectively do their duty as to prevent in the future any careless or wasteful distribution of the funds which have been bestowed in the aacred. name of charity. We had no intention in calling for the correction of abuses to do anything to check the outflow of charitable feeling in the direction of hospital support. At the same time, we are aware that dissatisfaction is yet deep and general ; and we do hope that the Hospital will not be a third time imperilled by extravagant management. If we have heard aright as to the direction of the revised rules, we shall hope that all our friends will see it to be their duty to condone the past, and rally round the institution. Nor ought the churches to be slow to consider the claims of the Hospital. We believe it will tend to their own healthful work to know, in this direction, that "greater blessedness" which gives. We say this much in the faith that the revision of rules will be to us satisfactory, and that the officials, and by these we mean the Surgeon and the Secretary, will charge themselves to be up in those rules, and keep others up also. We namo" .these, because paid officials— the one in charge of the Hos pital, and the other even more than the President in charge of the Committee. So long as tho present President remains in office, we have the conviction that he will look after the rules.