It was a crowded railway station, and a raw December day. Every few minutes the street cars emptied their loads at the door, and gusts of cold wind came in with the crowd. All hurried as they entered. All were laden with bag, basket, box, or bundle. Shivering groups stood about the great round stove in the center of the room. A small boy called, "Tillygram and Broken Needle," which last meant the "Brooklyn Eagle." Another boy shouted, "Cough candy and lozenges, five cents a paper."
Every few minutes a stream of people flowed out through a door, near which a young man stood and yelled, "Rapid transit for East New York!"
The gate was kept open but a moment, and closed again when enough persons had passed through to fill the two cars upon each train. Those so unfortunate as to be farthest from the door must wait until next time. Among those unfortunate ones was an old Swedish woman, in the heavy shoes and short frock of her native Northland. She had heavy bundles and, tho she had a place so near the door that many pushed against her, could not seem to get out. Her burden was too heavy for her to hold as she stood, and when the rush came and she seized one package from the floor by her side, she dropped the other, and in trying to get it, some one crowded and pushed her aside. The bundle was in the way; an impatient foot kicked it beyond her reach, and before she could recover it again, the door was shut. The kind old face looked pitifully troubled.11Suddenly, as she bowed her old gray head to lift the abused bundle from the floor, a bright boyish face came between her and her treasure, and a pair of strong young hands lifted it to her arms. Surprise and delight struggled in the old, wrinkled countenance, and a loud laugh came from two boys whose faces were pressed against the window outside the gate.
"See there, Harry; see Fred, that's what he dashed back for!"
"No; you don't say so? I thought he went for peanuts."
"No, not for peanuts or popcorn, but to pick up an old woman's bundle. Isn't he a goose?"
"Yes; what business has she to be right in the way with her budget. I gave it a good kick."
"Here comes the train. Shall we wait for him, Harry?" And they pounded the window, and motioned for Fred to come out.
But he shook his head, and nodded toward the little old woman at his side. He had her bundles, and her face had lost its anxious look, and was as placid as the round face of a holiday Dutch doll.
"Come along, Fred. Come along! You'll be left again."
"Never mind, boys: off with you; I'm going to see her through."
And they went. And Harry repeated to Dick, as they seated themselves in the train, "Isn't he a goose?"
"No," was the indignant answer; "he's a man, and I know another fellow who's a goose, and that's me, and Fred makes me ashamed of myself."
"Pooh! you didn't mean anything. You only gave it a push."
"I know it; but I feel as mean as if Fred had caught me picking her pocket."
The train whirled away. The next one came. "Rapid transit for East New York; all aboard!" shouted the man at the door.
The gate was open. There was another rush. In the crowd was an old Swedish woman, but by her side was Fred Monroe. He carried the heavy burden; he put his lithe young figure between her and the press. With the same air he would have shown to his own mother, he "saw her through." And when the gate shut, I turned to my book with grateful warmth at my heart that, amid much that is rude, chivalry still lives as the crowning charm of a manly boy.—Silver Cross.
"HE FAILETH NOT."
By Amelia E. Barr
I HAVE tried love, and I have known love fail;
Have trusted friends, and found that friends forgot,
Sought help from my own heart without avail—
"He faileth not."
Neither by day nor night, in age or youth;
In poverty, and in the fairest lot,
In sorrow and in joy, His word is truth—
"He faileth not."
If I should let all other comfort go,
And every other promise were forgot,
My soul would sit and sing; because I know—
"He faileth not."
I can not tell what winds of God may blow,
What safe or perilous ways may be my lot;
But I have little care; for this I know—
"He faileth not."
—Amelia E. Barr.
HER CHOICE OF ANCESTORS.
By Priscilla Leonard
[Priscilla Leonard, in the Classmate.]
"HEREDITY makes me feel so helpless," said a little girl the other day; "for I can't help what my ancestors have been, and I have to accept the disposition and the qualities they have handed down to me. It doesn't leave me any choice, as far as I can see, as to what I can do and be."
Her friend, a bright-faced young woman of the same age, looked at her quizzically. "Why, Dorothy, you've lots of choice in the matter. I reasoned that out for myself long ago, and I'll prove it to you. How many ancestors have you in, say, six generations back?"
"Dear me. What a sum in mental arithmetic!" said Dorothy. "Let me see—two, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, then sixty-four—wait till I add up—why, one-hundred and twenty-six, I suppose. I had no idea how spreading a family tree was, Jean."
"That's just it," replied Jean with a twinkle. "Out of one hundred and twenty-six ancestors, one can get a good wide range of choice. I used to be discouraged about heredity until I counted them up, and then I felt that there was safety in numbers. They couldn't all be disagreeable and lazy and ill-tempered, you see."
"Of course not," said Dorothy, "but—"
"But then," went on Jean, "if they weren't all full of bad qualities, some of them had to be nice, kind, upright, hard-working, useful men and women, don't you see? So I went over the list and picked out the good ones; and then I said to myself every day, I am a descendant from all these good men and women, and I inherit their dispositions and qualities to some extent, and I'm going to develop my inheritance. Sometimes it was a little hard, when grandfather's quick temper was boiling up in me, to remember that great-grandmother was the most amiable woman possible, and that I was her descendant as much as his; but I knew it was true, and so I kept my mind fixed upon it. Out of my four great-grandfathers, as far as I can find out, two were very industrious and two were extremely lazy. I don't see why heredity wouldn't make me just as industrious as lazy, and so I choose to remember the two ancestors who worked, and I try to forget the two who shirked. O, there's a choice in ancestors, my dear, and one has a perfect right to make it."
Dorothy smiled. "It's a new idea, Jean," she said, " but I must say it is helpful as to the heredity problem. I've been looking at the question the wrong way. Now I'll try your way. I am going home to count up and classify my hundred and twenty-six forbears, or as many as I can find track of, and then I shall follow your example and make my choice among them."
"You'll find a saint somewhere in the line," said Jean. "There always is one. My trouble about ancestors isn't that they've handed me down so many bad qualities, but they've been so good that I can't live up to my inheritance. Heredity is responsibility, my dear Dorothy, when you come to study it up."
And Jean was entirely right.
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SUPERSTITION VERSUS CHRISTIANITY.
CHRISTIANITY received, constrains men by the power of an indwelling life to do right. Superstition will lead them to worship a fetish or adhere to a dogma, tho they were doing the wickedest things. Here is a good illustration of the latter from "Wit and Humor of the Age," by Eli Perkins:—
Two Irishmen, convicted of murder, stood tremblingly before the judge to receive sentence.
"Did you murder this man?" asked the judge.
"We did, sor. We would not tell a lie."
"How did you do it?"
"I shtruck him wid a stone, and Moike he hit him wid a shillalah, and then we both av us buried him in a bog, sor."
"Well, well," said the judge, "but what did you do before you threw the body into the bog?"
"Sure we searched him, sor."
"Yes, and what did you find?"
"Two shillin's and two sixpence, yer Honor."
"Well, anything else?"
"Yes, sor; a foine lunch of bread and mate."
"Yes; and what did you do with that?"
"We were hungry, sor, and we ate the bread, but threw the mate away."
"If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
The words fall low and grave;
I seem to hear the voice divine of Him
Who now my soul would save.
"If ye love Me, keep My commandments.
Sin will the soul deprave.
Arise; My grace for thee sufficient is,—
Go, in My strength be brave."
"If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
Yea, Lord, I love Thee much,
And yield anew to Thy most perfect laws,
Saved by Thine hallowed touch.
Ballard, Wash. EDITH B. GOODRICH.
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“Who speaks unasked, or comes unbid, or counts on service—will be chid.”
TSAR, CZAR, AND SAR.
ALTHO the majority of newspapers, when speaking of Nicholas II., call him the "tsar," many of our confrères designate him under the name of "czar." Of these two names which is the correct one? "Tsar" undoubtedly; there can be no mistake about it.
The national title of the Russian sovereigns is not, as it has been said by some etymologists more ingenious than educated, the corruption of the word "cæsar," like the Germanic "kaiser," for instance.
The cause of this error is that at the beginning of the eighteenth century we only knew the Russians through the Poles, with whom we had international intercourse long before we got acquainted with the Muscovites. The word "czar" is the Polish form of the word "tsar," with a slight difference of pronunciation which distinguishes the two words derived from the Slavonic language.
We know that all the Russians, like all the Slavs, belong to the Greek Church and use the Cyrillic alphabet containing thirty-eight signs, still employed in the sacred language, but reduced to thirty-one in the common language. The Catholic Slavs, like the Poles, having kept the Latin alphabet of twenty-four signs, were compelled to resort to combinations of double letters to take the place of the "sibilant" consonants which are found in the Cyrillic alphabet. The "cz" forms one of these combinations; hence the Polish orthography, which was adopted at first by some illustrious writers like Voltaire and Saint-Simon.
The same rule applies to the derivatives of the word "tsar:" tsarine, tsarevna, tsarevitch, which some authors persist in writing czarine, czarevna, czarevitch.
These words are even spelled césarine, césarevna, and césarevitch, as a tribute to their imaginary origin.
But the word "tsar" has no Latin etymology; it is not the translation of the word "cæsar." The proof of it is that Peter the Great added the title "imperator" to his title of "tsar" during the first years of his reign.
Concerning the true etymology of "tsar" we may be obliged to look for it in the Persian "sâr," which means king, and is an old Chaldean word. —L'Evénement.
"A GREAT BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION."
NO worthy institution makes a pre-eminent success in this world without becoming the mark for the arrows of envy, defamation, contumely, and insinuation. This is more frequently true of benevolent and Christian institutions than of private enterprises for gain. It is one of the means of warfare which selfishness is bound to use as a last resort.
For years the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium of procedure, the committee quotes such paragraphs from the articles of association of the institution as bear upon the questions involved in the investigation, and then continues:—
It is therefore clear:—
1. That no profits of the institution can ever accrue or be lawfully paid to any private party or parties whatsoever.
2. That no funds of the institution can be lawfully sent outside the State to build or support other enterprises of any kind.
3. That any and all revenues of the institution must be devoted to philanthropic and charitable work within the State of Michigan, and to developing and extending the facilities of the institution itself, and for these purposes only.
4. That all the property of the institution is held in trust for the above philanthropic and charitable purposes only.
5. That title to any of the property of the institution can never be passed to any private person or persons whatsoever, but can only be transferred, at the expiration of the statutory limit of the corporation, to the trustees of another corporation organized for the same purposes and under similar restrictions.
Administration of the Institution.
The above being the legal status, the purpose, the obligations and restrictions of the institution, it remains for the public to inquire whether the trustees have legally and faithfully fulfilled their trust. This the public has a right to know, inasmuch as under the law the institution is a quasi public one, deriving its powers and its privileges from the public for public purposes.
nected with the management. The rates were found to range from $7.50 to $86.67 a month, and in the case of the physicians on the staff, seventy-eight dollars a month was the highest, and upon that salary the recipient has to support himself. First-year nurses receive their board, room, clothing (such as the usual uniform worn by the nurses), and necessary books for study; second-year nurses receive sixteen dollars a month, with room and board; and third-year nurses, twenty dollars, with room and board. As to Dr. Kellogg, we found that for several years he has received no salary or compensation whatever. We found that the board of trustees agreed that a certain amount should be set aside for Dr. Kellogg's compensation, but that Dr. Kellogg made it obligatory upon the board of managers that this amount, $96.33 a month, should be devoted to various benevolent purposes. To make sure that there was no other account in which money is paid to Dr. Kellogg, or in which he might be credited with services, I asked to see the personal account with the doctor in the general books, and this account was carefully examined by the members of the committee. The result of this examination was a surprise to me, as I found that Dr. Kellogg was charged with whatever he obtained from the Sanitarium, and for any work done for him at his home by any one in the employ of the Sanitarium, and that he paid for it, the same as any other individual should do. In no instance did I find that he had received credit for a single dollar for services rendered the institution.
3. The indebtedness of the Sanitarium. We found that the schedule showed the names and post-office addresses of 148 holders of obligations against the Sanitarium. They were scattered from California to Cape Town, South Africa. We could find no evidence whatever of a single dollar of indebtedness held by Dr. Kellogg or any other member of the board of managers.
4. Character and extent of the charitable work. I found, by examination of the books and files of orders for treatment, etc., that thousands of patients have been treated either absolutely free or partially free. I took, at random, the week ending June 30, 1901, and found that the books showed 130 patients coming under this heading, and for the week ending Oct. 27, 1901, 159 charity or part charity patients. These weeks were selected by myself, and not chosen for me. I found that in the year 1899 there was an expenditure of $29,347; in 1900, $30,300; and in 1901, $44,000, for charitable work in this branch. This makes a total of $103,647 in three years.
5. A general comparison of receipts and disbursements. We
THE PROPOSED NEW SANITARIUM.
By Editor
WE reproduce a drawing of the proposed building from the Battle Creek Enquirer. It may and probably will undergo certain modifications, but not such, it is thought, as will affect its general plan.
It is proposed to erect the new building of absolutely fire-proof materials, stone, steel, brick, and cement. The drawing contemplates a building 500 feet long, about 50 feet deep and 5 stories high, one story higher and 200 feet longer than the old building. Upon the top will be a roof garden. The first floor will be given to parlors, chapel, offices, etc. The dining-room and kitchen on the fifth floor, the north end, the surgical ward on the south end.
In the rear of the central portion of the new building will be five other buildings diverging from a central court, or enclosed palm garden, for the purpose of two massage rooms, two bath-rooms, including two plunge baths and a gymnasium. The plan contemplates a building of great security, beauty, and utility, as expressed by Dr. Kellogg, "the noblest temple of health and healing the sun ever shone upon, . . . equipped with every modern method and appliance for the conservation of health and the healing of the sick." So may it be.
Battle Creek, Mich. (started as the Health Reform Institute) has been endeavoring to do a noble, self-sacrificing work, a labor of love for God and humanity. Under God, Dr. Kellogg and his co-workers have built up, without doubt, the largest and best equipped institution of its kind in the world. Its medical work has been based on the highest principles of rational treatment, and carried out through the very best and most approved methods known to medical science, using every known therapeutic remedy. Its missionary work has been increasingly continuous, both in medical treatment and wide-spread teaching. Its aim has not been merely to cure or alleviate, but to instruct the pupil as to how to help nature to heal and how to keep well. It was built for a purpose—to benefit and bless humanity.
Of course its friends knew all this, but the public did not. It almost seemed necessary in the providence of God that a fire should occur, that the public, especially in its own city, might get to know the object, purpose, and animus of the institution.
To arrive at an understanding concerning the institution and its management, a committee of representative business men of Battle Creek was appointed to investigate and report thereon. Following will be found their report, as taken from the Review and Herald of that city, date March 18:—
To this inquiry your committee has devoted chiefly its time and attention, and we find as follows:—
1. No private individuals or parties whatsoever have, under the present organization of the Sanitarium, derived any profits or revenues therefrom above extremely moderate wages for their services.
2. No funds or profits of the institution have been sent outside the State to promote or support similar enterprises abroad.
3. The indebtedness of the institution, amounting to $245,109.25, is not due in whole or in part to any of the trustees, or to Dr. Kellogg, or to other persons connected with its management, but is owing in part to banks, and the remainder is held in small amounts by 146 different persons not in the management. A complete list of the holders of these notes and obligations has been submitted to your committee.
An Accountant's Report.
An expert accountant was employed to make a special examination of the books and records of the Sanitarium, acting in connection with two members of the committee appointed for this purpose. The accountant reported as follows:—
1. The diversion of funds to branch sanitariums. Your committee first obtained a list of these branch institutions. I then called for the ledger accounts with these branches, and selecting several at random, carefully examined them, together with the other members of your committee, finding nothing whatever but legitimate charges for goods sold to them, which were paid for in cash. I verified these charges by comparison with the bill book showing tissue copies of original invoices. There was absolutely no evidence that I could discover, that any funds had been used for the support of any branch outside of the State.
2. Excessive salaries and fees to Dr. Kellogg and others. We made a careful examination of the pay roll, which includes the whole force of employees receiving pay. This roll shows the rates paid to the help in all departments, including those concerned that the patronage of the institution has been extensive, and the receipts proportionately large but its expenditures have also been on a large scale, covering such items as new buildings, furniture, medical and surgical equipment, the pay roll of the help amounting to about $18,000 a month, fuel and lights, water, insurance, interest charges, payment on principal of debts, table and food supplies, and many other items of large amounts.
In Conclusion.
Finally, your committee are constrained to add that the revelations made by our investigations have been a surprise to us. Not only were we personally unaware of the wholly philanthropic nature of the institution under the law, but we were also unaware of the vast amount of charitable work performed by it, and the wonderful sacrifices made by the managers and employees generally. There are over 800 of these employees—physicians, nurses, helpers, etc. Dr. Kellogg donates to the Sanitarium all the services he performs for it, including all surgical and professional fees. He receives no salary or compensation whatever, and has not for years; on the contrary, he contributes annually from his private resources, derived from the sale of his popular medical books, thousands of dollars. The large corps of physicians receive no professional fees, and only weekly wages so small that their services are practically a charity. This is also true of the hundreds of nurses and helpers. They are a band of sincere people, conscientiously devoting themselves to a great work for humanity, and not for personal gain. This we do not need to tell those who have made themselves familiar in the past with the Sanitarium and its work.
It should be remembered, also, that the dispensing of alms to the poor is not the only, nor, indeed, the highest, form of charity. The silent influences, unseen, but powerful and pervasive, of a great benevolent institution like the Sanitarium, are of far greater value. No such colossal work can be carried on in the spirit which actuates and controls the Sanitarium without producing results absolutely incalculable for the good of humanity.13
We have, many of us, misjudged the Sanitarium. The members of your committee have themselves heretofore supposed that at least some persons connected with it were deriving large personal gains from it. As already stated, we are surprised at what we have discovered. The more deeply we have gone into the investigation, the more convincing and overwhelming the proofs have become of the straightforward management, the lofty purposes, and the wide-spread beneficence of the institution, and above all of the personal devotion and wonderful self-sacrifice of the nearly one thousand persons employed in it, from Dr. Kellogg, its renowned chief, whose great ability and superior skill are the foundation upon which it rests, and whose labors, enthusiasm, and devotion are the soul and substance of it, down to the youngest helper.
We rejoice that one of the consequences of the fire which consumed the principal buildings of the Sanitarium has been this occasion for investigation and the enlightenment of our people upon matters not only vitally affecting the interests of our city, but of importance to the world.
Rebuilding.
At a recent meeting of your committee, Dr. Kellogg was present by invitation, and was asked to make some statement for himself and the Sanitarium Board of Managers with reference to the prospects of rebuilding in this city. In reply, the doctor indicated his good will toward our city, and said that if the citizens of Battle Creek will raise $50,000 dollars, this sum to include the $15,000 tax money paid under protest, and which he expects the Supreme Court will order refunded; and if the city will furnish water for Sanitarium use free, or at a cost not to exceed the cost of pumping; and will provide adequate fire protection for the buildings and property, then the Sanitarium management will proceed to erect in this city a new Sanitarium building to cost not less than $275,000, exclusive of furniture, and far surpassing the structures destroyed by fire, in capacity, adaptation to its uses, convenience, architectural design and beauty, and the general attractiveness of its surroundings; and that this new Sanitarium shall remain the center of their system of sanitariums.
Respectfully submitted.
S. O. BUSH, I. L. STONE, GEO. E. HOWES, W. S. POTTER, NELSON ELDRED, Committee.
RESTING IN JESUS.
By Helen May Scott
Just resting in Jesus, my Saviour divine,
O, I am so happy, for Jesus is mine!
Just laying my burden away from my heart,
On Jesus, my Saviour, who will not depart.
And here I am resting, untrammeled by care;
For Jesus my troubles forever will bear;
Just resting in Jesus, my praises I'll sing
Through all the long ages to Jesus, my King.
South Lancaster, Mass. HELEN MAY SCOTT.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
By Editor
THE brethren in Bendigo, Victoria, have purchased a lot, and are preparing to build a house of worship.
FROM the recent canvassers' institute held in College View, Neb., twenty-two canvassers go out to different sections of that State.
IN Mount Gambier, South Australia, the laborers report that ten adults have joined our ranks, and a Sabbath-school of fifteen members has been organized.
OUR brethren in Australia are pleased with the new Federal Postal Bill, as it provides a rate on periodicals of 1d. (2 cents) a pound. The most inexpensive missionary work possible is by means of our periodicals.
THE Reporter says that the Nebraska Conference has been called upon to part with two faithful laborers. Brother E. R. Potter goes to Manitoba to act as State canvassing agent, and Brother W. O. James goes to England to enter the canvassing work.
CONVERTS in the "heathen lands" are always noted for their self-denial for the truth's sake. At our Matabele Mission (Rhodesia, South Africa), some of the children who do not have money for missionary donations, go without breakfast Sabbath mornings, and donate the proceeds.
AN orphan's home has been organized at Hildebran, N. C., and property has been secured for the purpose. Brother D. T. Shireman is president, and William Johnston secretary. Sister Mary Ann Johnston, who has been caring for orphans for the past thirty years, will be matron of the home.
THE wife of Dr. J. E. Caldwell, who has been eight years in the South Sea Island mission work, died at Christchurch, N. Z., March 1. She had been in poor health for over a year, and her decease is described as "falling asleep without a struggle or even a sound of mucus in her throat, as peacefully as if she were to wake up the next morning."
THE Fijian journal, Rarama, presents a very creditable appearance; and when we consider the difficulties under which the publisher, Brother J. E. Fulton, is laboring, it is a remarkable paper. Rarama is an eight-page monthly, and is printed on a hand-press that will take only one page at a time. There is a pressing need for a larger press.
A SPECIAL line of instruction will be offered at Emmanuel Missionary College, beginning April 15. This work is for canvassers, Bible-workers, and ministers, and is especially adapted to those who desire brief instruction preparatory to field work during the summer. Tuition free. Six weeks' work in Bible, language, and practical hygiene. Courses arranged for special classes of laborers.
IN the death of Brother O. S. Ferren the mountain region of Wyoming has lost a faithful laborer. He had been called to Albion, Neb., to look after a special interest that had been awakened in that vicinity. We have not learned the cause of his death. He was taken to his home in Big Horn, Wyo., for burial. He leaves a wife and four children. Brother Ferren did much good work in circulating our periodicals in connection with his ministerial labors.
A MEETING of the executive committee of the Southern Union Conference is now in session at Nashville, Tenn., which is to "take time to pray, closely study, carefully consider, then plan judiciously for laying a stable foundation in this great conference of nine sovereign States that will remain firm and unimpaired amid all the storms of the future." Such is the design, as announced by the president, Brother George I. Butler, who further says: "We will stay together till all matters of perplexity and anxiety that it is possible for us to solve are settled on a proper basis."
IN the Union Conference Record (Sydney, N. S. W.), of March 1, Brother E. H. Gates writes of an extended tour to the East Indies. Of a stop on the island of New Guinea he writes:—
December 16 we reached German New Guinea at a point on the northeast coast, and spent four days in visiting different trading stations and missions. At Finschhaven, our first stopping-place, is a German Protestant mission; but as we stayed here only a few hours, and as the mission was far up in the mountain, I did not have time to visit it. The object in locating the mission in the mountain is to escape the fevers. The only white people here are the two mission families and a company of men exploring for gold.
Here in New Guinea I saw paganism in all its glory; but I was compelled to acknowledge to myself that some of the worst heathen I saw were men with fairer skins than those poor, ignorant, naked savages. These latter are comparatively innocent. True, they have black skins, go about naked or nearly so, kill one another in battle, and preserve the skulls of their enemies as trophies in their temples, worship disgusting-looking gods, and to some extent practise cannibalism; but they have never had the opportunity to learn anything better. The uplifting, purifying influence of the Gospel has never reached their hearts.
Really, I saw less to condemn in them than to approve. A man who had lived among them for thirteen years told me that back in the jungle, where the white man is seldom seen, the natives are kind to strangers, hospitable, and temperate; but that soon after coming under the influence of the whites, they become tricky and dishonest. This is not, however, to argue that it was better to leave them in their degradation and idolatry. They are "alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart," and need the same work of grace done for them that is needed by white, civilized heathen in Australia, America, and England, nothing more, nothing less. The Gospel of the Third Angel's Message, carried by unselfish hands, is the only hope for this race. The vitiated gospel that is being dispensed to some of them has lost its power to uplift from the pit of sin.
Action of the Battle Creek City Council.
At a special meeting of the city council held Wednesday afternoon, March 12, the following resolution was passed:—
Resolved, by the Common Council of the city of Battle Creek, that the report from the Citizen's Committee, as made at a special session of the Common Council, this committee having as one of its number a member of this council, has been submitted to us, and we are willing and ready as the Common Council here assembled, to indorse their report in full.
Believing that the Sanitarium, morally and financially, is a great benefit to this city, this council desires them to remain, and wishes to extend to them every support which we as officers of the city may be able to offer, consistent with our oaths of office.
THE FUTURE OF THE SANITARIUM.
By Editor
ALTHO the Sanitarium fire was so serious, it left the institution solvent, tho fearfully crippled. The property left in real estate and buildings is sufficient to meet the indebtedness.
Flattering offers in real estate and cash donations have come from other localities; but taking into account the warm feeling of the people of the city, the buildings which remain, and the well-known location of the institution, the managers have decided to rebuild in Battle Creek. The insurance, amounting to $154,900, has been promptly allowed. The sum of over $72,000, has been raised by people in Battle Creek, and it is expected that this will reach $100,000. Generous gifts have been bestowed by friends and former patrons of the institution. Meeting a gentleman, a business man, in Oakland the next morning after the fire, one who has had no connection with the institution or work it represents, he expressed his regret and handed the writer $5.00. A poor woman in ill health, deprived of treatment needed, sends $1.00. Many others will wish to do likewise. Any such who may wish so to do may send money direct to the institution in Battle Creek, or if they desire us to forward it, we will gladly do it free of charge. It is a noble work, worthy of earnest effort.
