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YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 09912 3078 INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL NEWS PUBLISHED BY JT LUKE'/ INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTRE OF TO iW O DAY m ¡ 8 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 New York, 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 United States 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 New York City 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 <TuT' people.” Merited Recognition 3. “Resolved: That this General Convention whole- HE action taken by the General Convention of heartedly endorses the whole project to raise the Protestant Episcopal Church in endorsing $2,656,500 for St. Luke’s International Hospital, T Tokyo.” the St. Luke’s campaign and in voting to raise $1,000,000 of the entire amount needed is a matter o f the deepest gratification to the members of the St. Luke's Church’s Supreme Agency, American Executive Committee of the Hospital. Bishop Murray Declares In urging the Convention to assist in providing F all the agencies through which the Church St. Luke’s with a plant commensurate with the scope O is trying to interpret the precepts of Chris and importance of its work Bishop Freeman de tianity, St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, has the clared that “ No more statesmanlike move has ever place of supremacy, the Most Rev. John Gardner been suggested to the Church.” That the full mean Murray, Presiding Bishop, stated in opening the ing o f his words was realized and approved by the session at the General Convention at which the majority o f those present was indicated by the en appeal for St. Luke’s was presented. thusiasm with which the resolutions for the support “ There we have something,” Bishop Murray said, of St. Luke’s were received. This recognition by a referring to the Hospital, “ that has experienced the large group of representative Americans of the value Divine Blessing in such manner that it has recovered o f St. Luke’s as an agency both for promoting inter from catastrophe after catastrophe. Its condition national good-will and for exemplifying Christian today is such that there must be added the facilities idealism to Japan demonstrated that the firm con which will give not only continuation but an enlarge victions of the members of the Executive Committee ment of its service. By providing for it in this way, were shared by all acquainted with the work of the we may show that we expected God to answer our Hospital. prayers and we may give expression to our thank Doubtless the significance of the action taken by fulness that that expectancy was realized by making the Convention will be equally a source of gratifica provision, in the Name of the Master, for the Hos tion to the St. Luke’s staff. In the past it has not pital’s greater work. Thus we shall continue in the always been possible for those carrying on work future, as in the past, to make this Hospital not only in the mission field to know whether their endeavors a place of healing for the body, but a place for the were appreciated at home. It was natural that they training of the mind, and, over and above all, a should feel at times that interest was lacking, and place for the salvation of souls. once they had left these shores America seemed far “ There is nothing in the work of the Church which removed from Japan. has more fully impressed itself upon the conscious A day or two after the meeting at which the Con ness and created conviction in the heart and mind vention endorsed the campaign the Graf Zeppelin of the National Council, than this work of St. Luke’s, flew over the Capital on its way from Germany to Tokyo, Japan,” he continued. “ As a result, the Lakehurst, N. J. To many who had the interests of members of the Council are behind it, and they are St. Luke’s at heart it was a reminder that, as the in front of it. They surround it, with everything that they can possibly do themselves, and with every thing that they can possibly realize from the action and the contribution of others. “ Not only that,” Bishop Murray said, “ but this institution has so impressed itself upon men in the Church and out of the Church, as one of the greatest existing mediums today for the accomplishment of peace and good-will, that there has been organized, o f their own volition, one of the strongest committees o f laymen that has ever been organized for the ac complishment of any financial purpose in the City o f New York; and that committee has come to the National Council and asked permission— permis sion, mind you— to co-operate with it in the realiza tion of the desires of the Church to measure up to its full duty in relation to this institution.” - Senator Pepper Urges Support For St.

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