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VOL. I NOVEMBER, 1928 NO. Ill CONVENTION VOTES TO RAISE $1,000,000; ■ENDORSES WHuLE ST."LUKE’S' CAMPAIGN

N order that the Emperor of Japan may be as­ sured on November 10, the day of his Enthrone­ CABLEGRAM ment, that in commemoration of that occasion the American people will build St. Luke’s International His E x c e l l e n c y H o n . C h a r l e s M acV e a g h Medical Centre in Tokyo, the General Convention of American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan the Protestant Episcopal Church on October 12 put General Convention of American Episcopal Church assembled at Washington has placed on rec­ aside other business and voted to raise $1,000,000 ord determination to raise at earliest possible date as for this project by March, 1929. a priority one million dollars towards fund for com­ pleting new buildings of St. Luke’s International Hos­ The sanctioning of the present undertaking of St. pital, Tokyo. This action substantially assures satis­ Luke’s did not end with this promise. In another factory completion of fund. Please present to Imperial Household Department through proper channels as­ resolution, introduced by the Rt. Rev. William T. surance that the International Medical Centre will be Manning, D.D., Bishop of , the Conven­ completed as a testimonial and pledge of friendship and good-will from Americans in commemoration of tion endorsed the whole campaign to raise $2,656,- the Enthronement of their Majesties. Please inform 500 for the new St. Luke’s buildings. Viscount Shibusawa, Chairman Japanese Advisory Council, of this action.

To make sure that its promise to raise $1,000,000 T e u s l e r would be carried out, the Convention further voted W lCK ERSH A M that all delegates be supplied with information re­ lating to St. Luke’s which they might pass on to the people of their respective Dioceses on their return Bishop Murray, in the most eloquent terms as he home. introduced die speakers. Dr. Teusler was given an The initial resolution was presented by the Rev. ovation as he mounted the platform and the entire Robert Johnston, D.D., rector of St. John’s Church cause was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. in Washington. Both Bishop Freeman of Washing­ The three resolutions, which have given a great ton and Bishop Garland of Pennsylvania pledged forward impetus to the campaign, are as follows: their hearty co-operation, and the latter suggested 1. “ Responding to the appeal made to this joint session that a standing vote be taken as an evidence of good by Dr. Rudolf Teusler on behalf of St. Luke’s, faith. Tokyo, this Convention desires to place on record The resolutions were adopted at the afternoon its determination to attack at the earliest possible day, as a priority, the raising of $1,000,000, and session of the joint meeting of the House of Deputies that to that end asks the Diocesan delegations and the House of Bishops. The appeal for St. Luke’s here represented to give assurance that they will had been made at the morning session by Dr. undertake to present the claims of St. Luke’s to Teusler, Director of the Hospital, by the Hon. their duly constituted executive bodies, to create George Wharton Pepper, former Sena­ special committees to prosecute diocesan-wide cam­ paigns in behalf of St. Luke’s, and thus to meet the tor and member of the General Committee for the challenge of one of the most important and press­ St. Luke’s Campaign, by the Rt. Rev. John McKim, ing present-day needs.” D.D., Bishop of North Tokyo, and also by Presiding (Continued on Page 2) rntí*

V y\ i f - INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL NEWS progress of transportation is fast bringing continents closer together, a journey from New York to Tokyo VOL. I NOVEMBER, 1928 NO. I ll by air in eight days is now within the realm o f possi­ Published by the American Executive Committee bility. With such advances in means o f transit for Japan is coming to be regarded as a close neighbor. St . L u k e ’ s I nternational M e d ica l C en tr e American Office, Room 1103, Seven Wall Street The Zeppelin’s flight suggested vividly that the wis­ dom of helping her in her effort to reflect the stand­ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ards of Western civilization is inevitably being more Hon. George W. Wickersham, Chairman and more fully realized. Samuel Thorne, Secretary Thomas W. Lamont, Treasurer (Continued from Page 1) Edward F. Albee Hon. Charles MacVeagh 2. “ Whereas by the standing vote just taken every Stephen Baker Samuel M ather member of this Convention has pledged himself Wm. C. Breed Wm. W alker Orr to use his best endeavors to raise the amount neces­ N o r m a n H. D a v is P e r c y R. P y n e sary to complete the St. Luke’s fund: therefore be M artin Egan Hon. Wm. J. T ully it resolved that there be prepared and sent to every Lewis B. Franklin Allen Wardwell member of this Convention all information and Hon. Augustus N. Hand Dr. John W, Wood statistics which will be necessary to fully submit R o b e r t . C. H i l l — E u g e n e CL W o r d e n ' the merits and needs of the St. Luke's fund to

- Senator Pepper Urges Support For St. Luke*s T. LUKE’S was characterized as the “ outstanding achievement of the Church in the mission field” byS former Senator George Wharton Pepper, a mem­ ber of the General Committee for the campaign, in addressing the General Convention. Senator Pepper reviewed the history o f St. Luke’s, The Most Rev. John Gardner Murray, D.D., Presiding Bishop, its founding in a small frame building, its remark­ Who Made an Eloquent Plea for St. Luke’s at the General Convention on October 12. able growth in the first ten years of its existence, and the hearty endorsement of its work by the Gen­ eral Convention of 1913. therefore, is an agent for evangelistic purposes in “ Since 1923 Dr. Teusler has been developing the its fundamental analysis. What does it mean to the work in temporary buildings which cannot long be Japanese people who see it from a remote distance? used for their purpose.” “ There are 60,000,000 people in Japan,” he Senator Pepper referred to Dr. Teusler, Director said. “ It is literally the last ditch, the outstanding of the Hospital, as “ the largest cash contributor to bulwark between Russian Bolshevism, Chinese the work of that Hospital, in addition to the gift chaos, and the disintegration o f the Far East. It o f his life.” represents, as best it can, the interpretation of West­ “ Reference has been made to Dr. Teusler’s earn­ ern civilization. Japan, with her contacts in Korea, ing capacity,” Senator Pepper said. “ It is not a Manchuria, Formosa, and even in the islands o f the question of calculation. It is a mere matter o f re­ Pacific, is doing her best to digest in a few years corded fact that during the time that man has been this great grain of Western civilization that has taken out there in Japan, his actual receipts from private us 300 years to bring to its present state. At the •practice have been very close to a quarter of a mil­ very heart, from the beginning, has been the effort lion dollars, and he has not kept a penny of it.” to give Christianity to Japan. “ But we cannot carry into the Far East, into Director Says St. Luke’s Must Symbolize Japan, with its steamboat lines, its modern inter­ Christianity communication, its army, its navy, its centralized T. LUKE’S International Hospital must be main­ government, and its ambition, a picture of Chris­ tained and strengthened to exemplify Christian tianity unless we can surround it with institutions Sidealism to the Japanese people, Dr. Rudolf Bolling and work that demonstrate Christianity. Teusler, Director of the Hospital, told the assem­ “ We have a staff of 48 doctors, some 18 or 20 blage at the joint session of the General Convention. of them in the senior group,” Dr. Teusler explained. “ The giving of Christianity to Japan through “ If we look back over 20 odd years, there has prac­ humanitarian work is an integral part of the Chris­ tically not been a doctor lost. Men who were with tian missionary program,” Dr. Teusler said. “ One us 20 years ago are still with us. The staff changes cannot preach the gospel without living it. Christ only by increasing in size. There are about 140 lived it and others preached it for Him. The Church, Japanese nurses, and about five American nurses. It is the group o f Japanese doctors and Japanese nurses, and the Americans who work with them, who have made St. Luke’s Hospital persona grata with the Japanese people.” “ Last year our running expenses, exclusive o f the salaries o f our American workers, were $300,000,” Dr. Teusler said. “ The Board o f Missions gave us $11,000 and these salaries. That left us $289,000 to earn, and we earned it.”

Noted Men Plead For St. Luke*s A t Washington Dinner OICING their convictions of the value of the work of St. Luke’s in the most glowing terms Va group of distinguished men spoke in the Hospital’s behalf at a dinner given at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington the evening of October 18th. Orig­ inally planned for a room which held 300, the din­ ner had to be transferred to the ballroom, which was crowded with 600 persons. The speakers were General John J. Pershing, who is a member of the General Committee for the campaign, the Hon. Charles Beecher Warren, for­ mer American Ambassador to Japan, also a member o f this committee, the Hon. Hirosi Saito, Japanese General John J. Pershing Who Urged Support of St. Luke's at the Consul General, Dr. John W- Wood, Executive Sec­ Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, October 18. retary of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, Frederick Moore, former advisor to the Mr. Warren plead that Americans demonstrate Japanese Foreign Office and Associated Press cor­ to Japan that they can “ resurrect the body of the respondent in Tokyo, and Dr. Teusler. The Hon. Hospital as the Japanese resurrected their Buddhist George W. Wickersham, former United States At­ institutions after the earthquake.” torney General, chairman of the American Execu­ Dr. Teusler said that the building of the St. tive Committee for the St. Luke’s campaign, Luke’s medical centre had been referred to as a presided. “ friendly gesture.” Mr. Wickersham urged the building of the new “ This is no friendly gesture,” Dr. Teusler de­ St. Luke’s that the Japanese might come to think of clared. “ It is time we did something to substantiate America “ not as a Collossus of power but as a be­ promises made in after-dinner speeches and talk loved family physician bringing relief in their hour of hands clasped across the sea. This is not a ui suffering.” The resolutions adopted by the Con­ friendly gesture, it is a friendly act.” vention, he declared, were a “ moral commitment” to raise the needed fund. He emphasized the Hospital’s value as a spirit­ ual agency. Dr. Wood reviewed the epic history of the “ Christ did not go about doing direct evangel­ Hospital. izing,” Dr. Teusler said. “ His life was made up “ Whether you are a stranded American sailor of one deed of mercy after another.” or an American Ambassador to Japan, St. Luke’s will care for you tenderly,” he said. Consul General Saito expressed the deep grati­ tude felt by the Japanese people towards those who General Pershing described Dr. Teusler as “ the have helped to make St. Luke’s possible. Mr. Moore outstanding American Ambassador to Japan.” “ I declared that definite results are attained for every know o f no greater tie between Japan and America dollar spent in Japan because the Japanese people than Dr. Teusler and the work he has done,” Gen­ are receptive to progressive ideas from the West. eral Pershing said. The only hope for securing permanent peace is “ I am in the collecting business,” he continued, through the teaching of Christianity, he said, and referring to his chairmanship o f the committee for St. Luke’s provides the best possible vehicle for completing the Washington Cathedral, “ and I’m not conveying the meaning of its precepts to the Jap­ going to let up until Dr. Teusler gets this money.” anese people.