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THE P5ESBYTERL
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE WONDERKUL
STORY OK THE PRESBYTE
KI AN HOSPITAL IN
NEW ORLEANS.
Many friends in New Orleans and
throughout the South show by repeated
and loving questions and substantial
gifts that their interest in the welfare
of the Presbyterian Hospital of that
city Is real and lasting. These know
something of its previous history?how
11 was bejrun five years ago when a few
hoi I ovnra holnncrlntr tn V* "\\T
wov v> w V.V IUU ?? uiuau o
Home Missionary Union of New Orleans
Presbytery took fifteen dollars which
they had contributed to God lrt prayer
tnd asked him who had fed the five
thousand with five loaves and two small
fishes to multiply their little handful of
silver nnd build with It a great hospital,
where In the name of Jcmus the
sick would be healed; of how those
prayers were heard and when the fund
grew to five hundred dollars the hospital
wns organized and a free clinic
for the poor was opened at 628 Carodelet
Street on January 14th,' 1900; of how,
when tills clinic prospered and outgrew
its original quarters, efforts were made
to locate the Hospital more advantageously;
of how bitter persecution sprang
up; of how the Hospital through a
weary year was kicked from one end of
New Orleans to the other and denied a
permanent location anywhere; of how
in the direst hour of Its need the door
was opened to a splendid future by the
purchase of the New Orleans Sanitarium,
719-739 Carondelefc Street and
726-730 Rarome Street: of how within
a year the purchase price of $50,000 was
raised; of how the Hospital then entered
on a period of surpassing prosperity.
Rut of course unbelief has not been
quiescent In the presence of this glorious
victory of Christ. New Orleans Is largely
Romun Catholic and Infidel. There Is
reason to believe that 'many things the
Presbyterian Hospital has had to suffer
have been Inspired by Jesuitism, aided
by Irrellgion. Whether this be true or
not, tho following facts cannot be successfully
questioned:
Hardly had the Hospital entered Into
Its remanent quarters ahd equipped Its
free clinic for the poor at 730 Rarome
Street when, a few davs before that clinic
was 1c be opened. In January, 1911,
vandals entered the bulldlngin the night
time and wrecked all Its furnlshlntrs and
lore out the gas fixtures, leaving the gas
pouring out for several hours. One
shudders to think -what would have been
the fate of the nurses who were sleeping
In the u^per story of the building,
had even a match been struck there during
these hour9. Although the matter
was reported to the police no clew,
which would Indentlfv the miscreants
who were guilty of this dastardljr deed
has ever been found.
When we entered our new quarters,
the Board of Manaeers of the Presbyterian
Hospital decided to Invite In turn,
alt Protestant ministers who would cooperate,
to assist In holding services In
the Nurses' Parlor every Sabbath afternoon.
7n a beautiful spirit of fellowship
this Invitation was cordially accepted.
Thus nurses and convalescent
nntl/?nta wnro fraolv - ? ??
..., w ?.?. w.j ??vv,vi vicu mi up|?ur*
tunlty to hear the gospel. One, not
knowing conditions In New Orleans
would think that such an arrangement
which was purely voluntary, and put no
compulsion on either employers or
patients to attend the services, would be
taken a? a matter of course. Bui hot
so. Word cnme iust about this time
1hat there was great restlessness among
Ihe nurpes. Definite Information showed
that two of those were particularly
out of symnathv with the management
and were disturbing discipline. Therefore.
the Board of Managers promptly
dismissed both of them. One, we learned
later,* yas a Roman Catholic and the
A. N OF THE SOUTH
other a Protestant. The Roman Catholic
nurse entered proceedings against the
Hospital In the civil courts. The judge
in the lower court ruled in her favor On
every point. The Hospital's lawyer then
had the case carried up to the Supreme
Court, where a hearing was granted
last spring, and an order given forbidding
the lower judge to proceed
further with the case. Had our lawyer
not so splendidly succeeded, the discipline
of the Hospital would have been
as thoroughly wrecked as was the Interior
of our clinic building.
In the meantime, with the permission
and hearty agreement of the Hoard of
Managers, the Woman's Auxiliary placed
a beautiful Oxford Bible In every room
In the Hospital. Then we began tt> hear
of restlessness among the physicians. A
crisis wns reached last July..when several
of the Medical Board resigned, and
In spite of the contract made when the .
Sanitarium was purchased from them
and their fellow stockholders In 1910,
took their good will away from tho Hospital.
They had previously been paid
their own price of $50 000 for that good
will and other assets of the Sanitarium,
but with great moral callousness they
withdrew the patronage for which tb *'
money was given. Then a very hurrl
cane of hatred burst loose against the
Hospital. .
The city and countryside were filled
with the noise of adverse criticisms so
diplomatically disseminated and so widespread
I hat nnlv ? U'Pll rCrllloU npuonlio.
tlon could have accomplished what has
been done along these lines.
The adverse rumors ran In thtee general
directions, and were repeated, It
seems, hy so-called friend and foe alike.
(1) It was said the Presbytery of
New Orleans had never recognized the
Presbyterian Hospital. *
(2) It was reported that all the doctors
had left It and that it was closed
for want of patients.
(3) It was bruited about that tho
Hospital could not meet Its financial obligations
and that it would not be able
to pay the Interest on the bonds which
would be due December 2, 1912.
All these rumors are best answered .by
the Tollcwing facts which are herewith
given, not so much to answer evil rumors.
as to show how God takes care of
' his own through evil report as well as
good report, and to add another striking
w..|iisi w me biicuu7 wunneriui mstory
of our Institution founded by faith and
built by the Most High In one of the
wiekedert cities in the world.
(1) However some who have consist-,
ently fought this Presbyterian Hospital
from i*a inception, may wish It. otherwise.
the official minutes of the Presbytery
of New Orleans contain unequivocal
commendations of this Presbyterian
Hospital. These actions have been taken
In successive years In response to reports
sent to Presbytery by the Woman's
Homo M'ssionary Union. That
Union itself adopted the charter of tha
Hospital, which was patterned after several
of the greatest and most successful
Presbyterian Hospitals in Europe and
America.
When in the spring of 1909, the Union
leported that ihe Hospital had, at th?
Union's request been organized . by it
group of representative Presbyterian
men whom the Union had personally invited
so to do, and subm'tted full data
concerning this organization, including
the Charter of the Hospital fall of which
is suii on me m the official records of
the Union), Presbytery said: (See
printed minutes of the Presbytery of
New Orleans, April 20, 22, 1909, page
?89) i "The report of the Woman's Homo
Missionary Union presents many encouraging
evidences of tho consecrated
seal of our women. . . . Presbytery
would speak a word of commendation
for them In every department of-tite
I
t December 25, 1912
work they have undertaken. ... It
is also h matter of pleasing information
lhat they have established a free clinic
v.hlch they hope will develop Into a
Presbyterian Hospital."
Agaiu ih 1910 Presbytery spoke as feb
lows (See printed Minutes of Presbytery
of New Orleans, April 21, 1910, page
23): "The Presbytery notes with picaslire
the earnest Christian spirit and
continued progress of the Woman's
Home Missionary Union. . . . Tho
Union is greatly Interested In the work
of the Presbyterian Hospital of New Orleans
and has done much for It. We believe
that there is need in nnr mMsf fnr
the work contemplated by the Presbyterian
Hospital and commend that Institution
to the moral support of Presbytery."
Again In 15)11 Presbytery said (See
printed Minutes of the Presbytery of .
New Orleans, April 18, 20, 1911, page
102): "Wt note with much pleasure the
splendid work still being done by the
Woman's Home Missionary Union. Their
activities extend along various lines,
notable among which Is the great work
they have don? ".nil are still doing In
connection with the 'Presbyterlah Hos-l?1tal,*
nn Institution which seems to
have before it a future of great usefulness
and which we commend to the
'moral rupp'ort of this body."
(2) In response to the second evil
rnfcior that ail the doctors have left the
Hospital and that It Is closed are the
following facts: Dr. J. M. Batchelor,
one of the greatest surgeons in the
South, for ft number' of years the Houfco
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