. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . E The Golden Cross should success-fully challenge the body of our Meth-odism from one side of the continentto the other. Our spiritual appeal willbe but half-hearted if this call to min-ister to human sickness is neglected. BISHOP EDWIN D. MOUZON The Methodist Episcopal Church,South, is now committed to a defi-nite program of hospital work. Meth-odism is definitely connectional. Ourhospitals are not local institutionsonly, but enterprises of the entireChurch. * * *BISHOP HOYT M. DOBBS One of the most significant andgratifying movements in the prog
. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . E The Golden Cross should success-fully challenge the body of our Meth-odism from one side of the continentto the other. Our spiritual appeal willbe but half-hearted if this call to min-ister to human sickness is neglected. BISHOP EDWIN D. MOUZON The Methodist Episcopal Church,South, is now committed to a defi-nite program of hospital work. Meth-odism is definitely connectional. Ourhospitals are not local institutionsonly, but enterprises of the entireChurch. * * *BISHOP HOYT M. DOBBS One of the most significant andgratifying movements in the progressof the Church today is the increas-ing interest in the great hospital pro-gram which commends itself to near-ly three million Southern Methodists. We never approach more nearlythe method and ministry of the GreatPhysician than when we are engagedin relieving the sufferings of our fel-low-men. * * *BISHOP H. A. BOAZ The Church must minister to bothsoul and body. Through the GoldenCross an opportunity is given toevery member to have a | THE GOLDEN CROSS I j AT WORK | g The Golden Cross Society is J g the Methodist Church express- g g ing itself in the ministry of g g healing. It is auxiliary to the g g General Hospital Board, and is g B the method authorized by the g g General Conference for raising g g funds for the hospital work of g g our Church. This is done g g through an annual Enrollment, g g There are, in America, 7,000 hos- g S pitals with a bed capacity of g g 1,000,000. The total value of g g these hospitals is about $3,000,- m g 000,000, and the total number g g of hospital patients runs to 12,- g g 000,000 each year. These hos- g g pitals have helped to reduce g g American death rate 86 per g g cent in 30 years. g g Twenty-five years ago there g g was no hospital in our Church, g g Today the 12 hospitals of our g g Church are valued at $16,000,- g g 000 or more. They treat ap- g g proximately 35,000 patients an- g g nually. g g These hospitals spend annual
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