“I wish to call the attention of your many readers to an article published in the Tribune of March 11th, as Mr. Jeffords, the keeper of the Infirmary, in his article, says that he never raised a single objection against the members of the YMCA coming town there and holding religious meetings on Sunday. I am really sorry if we misunderstood him, and I don’t see how there is any mistake in his objection to our coming and holding meetings. He said there was ‘no need of us coming ever Sabbath; once every three or four weeks was sufficient,’ for he said that for two or three days after we had meeting there, he ‘couldn’t get any work out of the inmates, as all their talk was of religion and meeting.’ If that was not an objection, I don’t know what you would call one; and he said that ‘there was no need of having meeting there so often, for it was agitating their minds where there was no cause for it.’ One thing we do know is, that we have not been treated with the same kindness that we were when Mr. Rodgers was in charge. As for the reading matter that is furnished by the YMCA to the inmates, what is done with it I don’t know, but I suppose it is read by the inmates. But there is a screw loose somewhere. There has been reading matter taken out of the post office that was directed to the Infirmary, only a part of it being sent. I would like to know where two of the February numbers of the Guide to holiness went. When there should have been four copies, only two are to be found. There seems to be someone who is very generous hearted, and wanted to make a show of charity. We think it would be well for that man to send and get a few copies of the periodical mentioned, and pay his own money for them, as someone did for those copies that are directed to the Infirmary, and then he will appreciate its value more so than by taking the reading from the inmates. -EPS”
“We can say for Director Smith, the clerk of the Board, that he has appropriated no reading matter intended for the Infirmary. -Editor”1
