Letters to the Editor - Oct 2
The Bible
The inspired Word of God, which is provided by the Gideons for the purpose of giving comfort, love, and hope to anyone choosing to read it. The Gideon Bibles are distributed by professional business men and women and are placed in hospitals, clinics, resthomes, assisted living, hotels, motels, schools, universities, military, and all countries.
Over a hundred years ago the first Gideon Bible was placed in Superior, Montana. Now after all these years I find those Gideon Bibles placed in the Superior Clinic, Hospital, Resthome and assisted living have been removed.
Richard S. Clark,
Gideon, Superior
Police officers take note
Dear Editor:
Recently my husband’s misspelled name was in a column listing violators of traffic regulations.
On the morning of the day in question, I was on vendor duty at The Grainry and asked my husband to make a run to the grocery store for me to purchase an emergency item for The Grainry’s bathroom – toilet paper. Turned out to be expensive T-paper! For possibly the first time since cars have been equipped with safety belts, my beloved failed to buckle his for this mid-morning, few blocks run to the grocery store. This negligent act was spotted by the town’s alert Protector of Main Street Cop, who apparently was a tad careless in copying John’s name from his driver’s license. The error was rather hurtful to John when he saw the incident published in the incorrect name because this was his first ticket for a driving violation in 70 years of driving in excess of a million miles. Then to add insult to injury, he had to listen to admonishment from his wife. My lecture to him was that there is never an excuse for failing to buckle up one’s seatbelt when driving for even a few blocks. I reminded him that 40 some years ago a seatbelt, a then only manufactured waist belt, had saved me from serious injury when my vehicle had been clobbered near Washington D.C. during a heavy rainstorm. My head was sore from hitting the steering wheel, which happened then when wearing only the waist belts, but my ’67 Mustang was totaled. Otherwise I fortunately was okay.
So, a lecture from his wife, and the misspelling of his name in the newspaper in a listing of violators, compounded John’s shame and remorse.
Police officers: take note that there is no excuse for misspelling a name when copying from an official record. Take the extra couple of seconds to do it right.
Pat O’Buck, Plains
Very serious business
Editor -
Sometimes a very good friend does something very wrong. Sometimes we, ourselves, are the very good friend who grievously errs and injures.
Our local hospital and clinic has done something very wrong. They are our friends. If we have lived in Mineral County for any length of time, persons at the hospital and/or at the clinic have done us some great good.
The finest physician I have ever personally known practiced there. He saved my wife’s life. He was and is a strong Christian. He was and is a man who believed his surgeon’s hands were guided by skill, learning, and most of all, by Jesus Christ. He prayed before each surgery, and he prayed to Jesus.
The place where he worked to save so many has spurned its Christian roots. Many in this community, this county, who support the hospital and the clinic will be horrified to know that the Bible, the Word of God, can no longer be placed in those places of healing to comfort the sick.
Some will want to withdraw their support of the hospital and clinic immediately.
I urge them not to do so, at least not until the full story is known, until the question: “Why? Why exclude the Bible?” is answered.
The answer must be more than succumbing to a weak-willed tolerance and a politically-correct agenda not to offend.
This exclusion of the Word of God from the Clinic and the Hospital is a very serious business.
I urge anyone reading this to delve into the matter, search for answers, before withdrawing support. But, ultimately, where Jesus Christ is not welcome, neither am I. I must brush the dust from my feet.
Sincerely,
Ed Chaberek, Superior