A plea for a church hospital in the city of New-York : in two lectures, delivered in the Church of the Holy Communion, St. Paul's Church, New-York, and St. John's Church, Brooklyn / by W.A. Muhlenberg ; with an appendix, containing the constitution, &c. of St. Luke's Hospital.
- William Augustus Muhlenberg
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A plea for a church hospital in the city of New-York : in two lectures, delivered in the Church of the Holy Communion, St. Paul's Church, New-York, and St. John's Church, Brooklyn / by W.A. Muhlenberg ; with an appendix, containing the constitution, &c. of St. Luke's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ing, not of course to dismiss all concern for others. God forbid ! But the field of charitable la- bors must be parcelled out, and surely our share, my brethren, is among the comparatively few of our own communion. For these I plead, not in the name of humanity alone, though that were sufficient, but in the name of your Lord and theirs, in the name of Jesus Christ. For the stranger—(not to speak of our na- tive brethren)—for the stranger—yet not a stranger in the alliance of faith—for the emigrant Church- man who brings credentials from his pastor at home, and yet when he falls sick, must seek a refuge no where in the Church in which he has been baptized and nurtured, but in one of the emigration houses^ on the island. In vain that brother in Christ seeks a room or bed among ourselves. In vain he looks about for one of those dispensaries of mercy, which as we have seen were the spontaneous product of early Christianity, and the absence of which seems to indicate a Church having a name to live while she is dead. Is this a fact, my brethren, only to be brought to view and dismissed from our thoughts ? or at most to be confessed and deplored ? Does no shame rise in our bosoms, at the thought that our Church in this proud metropolis, in which she holds so conspicuous * These are as good in their way as circumstances allow. The Commissioners of Emigration do all in their power. There has been as yet no Protestant clergyman on Ward's Island, but one, I learn, is about to be appointed.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143055_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
