Addresses at the opening of the hospital, May 7, 1889.

  • Johns Hopkins Hospital
Date:
1889
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Credit: Addresses at the opening of the hospital, May 7, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glory and honor. Thou madest us to have domin- ion over the works of Thy hands. 0 Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!” We bless Thee as the God of life, and health, and happiness. Thou dost have “a desire to the work of Thy hand” and preservest amidst ten thou- sand perils the life Thou hast given. The mystic mechanism of life Thou hast so constructed that its healthful and harmonious movements are a perpet- ual joy, so that health is happiness. Since death, the penalty of sin, must come, we bless Thee that Thou dost send so many heralds before to warn us of his coming, that we may set our hearts and houses in order. We bless Thee for all the alleviations Thou hast provided for pain and for all the remedies Thou hast provided to mitigate, where they cannot remove disease; for these healing waters compounded in Thine own hidden laboratory; for these healing plants which Thou has caused to grow in garden, and field, and forest; for these healing minerals which Thou hast stored away, with the silver and the gold in the mines, furnishing the hospital earth so abundantly with all needful supplies for its sick and impotent folk. We thank Thee for the pity Thou hast im- planted in human hearts, and the skill Thou hast given to physicians to discover and administer the remedies Thou hast provided, so and ever increas- ingly lessening the sum of human sufferings.