HOSPITAL TRACTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 138, 17 July 1914, Page 6

HOSPITAL TRACTS.

If® ,ths Editor, of THE STIN, , l 4 . Sir,—lt may, be a..; little .interestjiig some of your readers to know, how certain very pious Christian, folk carry their. soothing message of peace -and. love to the'sufferingsouls in eur local . hospital. " I have, before me a very neatly printed tract which, with some others, was given to patients last Sunday.. .This little pamphlet sets out to stimulate . and to encourage tlic sufEerets by d«ctering in .JjeaSJpaes,., > that; —- **Th&ve y s a SeMiifiSP(o£ CWist a.n<l a, <3kr4s£ fw- fevevy [ out of helL * * la cases that that bit o£ (iMematim m&sr Mm Ult tM ssUmt hinnmmi the writer Of Urn w^aom proeSeJa Id fMlcw iMs up fey a dfii&i gp so quotations, ail (tf v?kiek~iendi& impress tipoH the pain, racked CI tbo patient, the happy and glorious future that, lies. before him,—when the doctors have finished, ; 1 ' The next little pamphlet impresses, with a great show of wfsdbhi, tipon the patient: "The great majesty of'suffering! ' ' ■ - Whatever may be the effect ; of this - particular < 'message:'' upon the sufferer, it is hard to say, but itsbould produce quite a flutter among vthe nurses who sperid all the ~time miserable world of what our 1 tract writer is pleased to allude to as being : . After reading such piffle as-; these> messengers of hope distribute, one feels glad~ that* the . world more , and more civilised, and less and less Christian. .. . Of course jany decent person must. admit that Colonel Ingersoll was suiely right when he said: "All the meanness of which the heart of man. is capable is to be found in that one word, Hell. At anyrate, such a theme,'however Christianlike it may be, is hardly a kind or a generous one to bring before suffering people.—l am, etc., H. MORIiTCXN". 22 Willow Street, Christchurch.