Having done this, let us, as true Hahnemannians, take our case with the utmost care, and find the similimum, which, when administered in the proper potency, will surely restore health whenever possible. Then, and then only, will we be able to stand up with confidence to proclaim and prove to the world not only a cure and what cured, but also what was cured. This will materially strengthen the standing of our Association and pure homoeopathy. “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” We must not only believe in, live and practise our ideal, pure homoeopathy, but we must also proclaim it, disseminate the knowledge of the foundation truths of our laws.
The America Foundation of Homoeopathy was organized for this very purpose. The summer session or school is open to all who desire to acquire a knowledge of pure homoeopathy. Let us do all within our power to co-ordinate and harmonize, yes unify, all the allied individuals and organizations working for the confirmation, demonstration and promulgation of pure homoeopathy. Let us, of the present, work with and for the believers in and followers of Hahnemanns law, who have given and are giving of themselves, unstintingly, in effecting and maintaining a strong, harmonious, well-organized Association. The number of Hahnemannian homoeopaths is comparatively small, but let us make our Association so worth while that every believer in Hahnemanns law in the world will desire to become affiliated with us. a few in number, with truth, are greater than an army, without an ideal.
What is more radiant for good than a united family? Let us visualize an international Hahnemannian family, thoroughly united and efficiently organized as a potent force. In the first place, each member of our family is a firm believer in Hahnemanns law and is imbued with a full, unselfish, humanitarian spirit. We must have our home, our Foundation-well appointed and housing a complete library, which, in order to do its best, should be generously endowed; its trustees plan and oversee its destiny, supervising its finance committee, its publicity committee; its efficient laymans league; its well organized and skilfully managed post-graduate summer school; its research bureaus; and the International Hahnemannian Association, which has the same goal or ideal as its pioneer founders had for it, Hahnemannian homoeopathy. A united family, where each lives and works for the other, and all for the best good and glory of our specialty, Hahnemannian therapeutics and humanity.
Let us now, this year, organize a committee for reproving old and proving new remedies, and report at least one such proving at each annual meeting.
Let us take some definite steps toward increasing, improving and making more accessible our homoeopathic literature.
Let us consider the appointment of a committee on Hygiene and Dietetics, as related to Hahnemannian therapeutics.
Is there not some one who can invent and manufacture a neat and suitable automobile emblem, that will be distinctly Hahnemannian, of equal moral value and of superior appearance to that issued by the American Medical Association?.
We have our journal, The Homoeopathic Recorder, of which we are justly proud, as it goes, each month, to every state in the Union, but two, and to fifty-one foreign countries, spreading the knowledge and beneficial results of pure homoeopathy. Let us rally one hundred percent to its support, for we must maintain it; without it we cannot live and grow. We desire to contain it; without it we cannot live and grow. We desire to continually raise its standards and excellence; to send it out to all the world as a messenger of Hahnemannian homoeopathy unburdened. In order to maintain our journal, we must have money and have it immediately.
In order to attain our ideal for the journal, we must have an endowment of liberal proportion. “To him that hath shall be given.” Let us establish an endowment fund, and let us start it now. Let our Association, this year, elect three trustees to be known as the trustees of the endowment fund. The first trustees to be elected for five years and empowered to raise and collect a nucleus for an endowment fund to be under the control of the Hahnemannian Association, and used for our journal in spreading the knowledge of pure homoeopathy., After the five years period of organizing, collecting and establishing the endowment fund, have the trustees elected to serve one, two and three years, respectively.
Our Association has a membership of 207 physicians. In this membership it should not be difficult to find at least fifty (50) who would pledge to give or be responsible for giving five hundred dollars (500.00) each. This is to be paid in a lump sum for this specific purpose, or one hundred dollars (100.00) to be paid annually for five years, or fifty dollars (50.00) to be paid semi-annually for five years. Less than thirty cents a day to perpetuate an ideal.
Add to this, fifty members, who pledge to pay two hundred and fifty dollars (250.00), either in a lump sum, or fifty dollars (50.00) annually for five years, or twenty-five (25.00) semi annually for five years. Less than fifteen cents a day to vindicate truth.
Once more add fifty members who would pledge one hundred dollars (100.00), to be paid in a lump sum, or twenty dollars (20.00) annually for five years. About seven cents a day to proclaim a principle. Thus, only one hundred and fifty members of the International Hahnemannian Association, and of course, there would be many more, but one hundred and fifty members would establish an endowment fund of 42.500. With this as a nucleus, well-guarded and specifically outlined, we could go to our patients, our friends and to financiers and have in a few years legacies and bequests of sufficient size to enable us to man and publish our journal in a most creditable manner.
A radiant vision of an Hahnemannians ideal, fully possible of achievement, if we believe that which we profess to believe and are true to ourselves and homoeopathy, if we really desire and intend to do to others just the same as we would have them do to us, if you, if I, if we “will to can always what we ought to do.” SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The Presidents message most happily combines idealism, sound philosophy and practical suggestions for the immediate present. Our attention is first called to the fact that a fixed program of ideals implied a static individual. Ideals must never keep far beyond accomplishment.
After a quick, sweeping glance down the long ages of medical history the President soon brings us face to face with the needs and problems confronting our own Association. The International Hahnemannian Association has record of fifty-two years of success and worthwhile service behind it. Its future in the hands of the present membership.
The Committee feels that it can do no better than to briefly summarize and emphasize the practical suggestions made in this address. These are: 1. Proclaim homoeopathy and advertise the International Hahnemannian Association.
2. Promote co-operation between the International Hahnemannian Association and the American Foundation for Homoeopathy. We must present to the world a united front and co- ordinated organization. The Association, the Foundation and the Recorder-all are essential, and our responsibility must, of necessity, include all three.
3. Organize a committee for proving and reproving new remedies, and report at least one such proving at each annual meeting.
4. Take some definite steps towards increasing, improving and making more accessible our homoeopathic literature.
5. Consider the appointment of a committee on hygiene and dietetics as related to Hahnemannian therapeutics.
6. Rally one hundred per cent strong to the support of the Homoeopathic Recorder, for without it we cannot live and grow. Without it we cannot speak to the world nor scarcely to each other. The Recorder should be liberally endowed but it will not endow itself nor will philanthropists endow it of their own free will and accord. We must put our shoulder to the wheel, both individually and collectively. It is up to no one but ourselves. We must get busy to.
7. Establish an endowment fund to support the Recorder and we must do it now.
8. Let our Association this year elect three trustees to be known as the Trustees of the Endowment Fund, these trustees being empowered to collect a nucleus for a fund under the control of the Association.
9.Secure pledges from our membership and from others, these pledges to be paid either in a lump sum or at intervals, as individually arranged, over a five-year period. Having done our share we will then be worth petitioners when we approach our friends, and the friends of homoeopathy. Having given ourselves we can ask of others. With these contributions as a nucleus we can then go after financiers and philanthropists and give good and sufficient grounds for leading their aid.
A radiant vision says our President, and one fully possible of achievement!.
