ADVICE TO HOSPITAL VISITORS.
"li you visit a hospital/' quctJ; the Rev J. F. Chappie, of St. Barnabas' George Street west, Sydney, "<lou". go in with a Bible in one hand and <; bundle of tracts in tho other. If .you do you'll have all the patient asleep in five minutes, though doctor have been giving them opiates in vain / for weeks past." Mr Chappie was I addressing an audience at the j Y.M.C.A. Hall (says the Telegraph), assembled to hear something of the work done in the slums of Sydney by the members of tho Mission Zone. Fund. "You're not a Christian.'" burst out one patient as Mr Chappie • approached. "If you were, you'd J have knelt down beside that man i
you've been talking to, and prayed for a quarter of an hour." "Yes," replied the clergymen, "and he'd have been asleep for the last 10 minutes."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 9 October 1912, Page 7
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148ADVICE TO HOSPITAL VISITORS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 9 October 1912, Page 7
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