Eighth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England)
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: Eighth annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPLAIN’S EEPOET. ' To the Committee of Visitors of the Bucks County Lunatic Asylum. Gextlehen, With the close of the Year, and in accordance with the Rules I of your Institution, I beg to lay before you the result of my labours I during the time that has elapsed since I presented my last Report. It would much exceed the limits of this summary of my duties to 1 enter minutely into the details of my Journal, which has been laid before ) you at your Monthly Meetings. It will be sufficient briefly to state that I the appointed Religious Services have been duly performed, and that it \ aflbrds me much satisfaction to be able to bear fresh testimony to the 1 attention which many of the patients pay to, and the interest which they I feel in, the services in the Asylum Chapel. This interest has been L greatly increased by the addition of an Harmonium, which has proved of I the greatest advantage, and been manifestly very beneficial to the j Patients. Parts of the Service have been regularly chanted, and a Psalm { or Hymn sung before the Sermon, and occasionally after it, in which ) some of the Patients and the Attendants heartily join. ! I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to ascertain by careful observa- f tion the most efiective means of imparting Religious Instruction and i consolation to those who are under my care, avoiding everything that I would agitate their minds, and presenting them with the plain soothing t and practical view of divine truth. And, tho’ I cannot but often regret i the ignorance and apathy with respect to the spiritual state of some, I I trust my ministrations both in the Chapel and in the Galleries, by God’s I blessing, have been the means of conveying strength to the weak, and L- comfort to many that are cast down. Referring to the latter part of the Resolution passed at your Meeting ji on the 25th Day of October last, with respect to my visits at the Asylum, J I beg to assure you, that, feeling it always a pleasure to minister in ( divine things, I am only too happy to comply with your wishes as \ occasion requires.