An historical account of the Old People's Hospital, commonly called, the Trinity Hospital in Edinburgh : Also, proposals how to raise a fond [sic] for the maintenance of widows and orphans, under the title of a charity-bank / By Andrew Gairdner.

  • Gairdner, Andrew.
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Printed in the year 1728
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of the Old People's Hospital, commonly called, the Trinity Hospital in Edinburgh : Also, proposals how to raise a fond [sic] for the maintenance of widows and orphans, under the title of a charity-bank / By Andrew Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will contribute thereto, it will certainly be found very eafy, for on all Occafions many Hands make light Work. I do acknowledge fotne may fay, This is a wrong Time to apply for Charity or a Con¬ tribution, confidering the great Scarcity of Money at this Time. This indeed is granted that Money is fcarce ; but then, to be fure, this makes the Needs of the Poor the greater, and the Applications to be the more nume¬ rous ; and ye may alfo confider the Method I have laid down is very eafy, for we urge and importune no Man or Woman to give, but according to their Ability ; and if that be done, it will anfwer our Delign. And tho’ we be fcarce of Money, it will be our Honour to copy after the noble Macedonians, who not only to their Power, but above their Power, they contributed in the Time of Straits for the poor Saints that were at Jerujalem, And we are not fo low as the poor Widow of Sarefta, that was gathering Sticks to make ready her laft Meal, and yet chearfully condefcended to make a Cake of it in the firft Place for Elijah the Prophet, with an entire Dependence on the Promife; and how much the LORD rewarded her for fo doing, I refer you to fee in the Plea for the Poor, from Page 132, to Rage 140. Some may fay we have too many Hofpi- tals already : But whatever they may fay now, when they are pleading for Friends and Rela-