"Hospital Sunday".

Date:
[1870 ?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: "Hospital Sunday". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which it was unanimously resolved to appoint the third Sunday in January every year for congregational collections, in aid of the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital. At Carlisle a public meeting was held last week, when a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for collections on the third Sunday in May next. The committee has for its chairman the Bishop of Carlisle, its secretary is Dr. Henry Barnes, and there are two representa¬ tives, one medical and one non-medical, for each of the partici¬ pating charities. It was at first intended that the plan should be limited to Carlisle and its neighbourhood, but the cordial support of ministers of religion outside the city has led to the extension of the plan, so as to include the congregations and • • * • the charities of Cumberland and Westmoreland. “ Hospital Sunday,” then, will be a county institution in these two northern shires, and we can but hope that their good example will be followed in counties nearer home. Perhaps it would be if any of our southern bishops were actuated by those feelings which have prompted the Bishop of Carlisle to identify himself with the movement.