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do, for to be human means to be subject to the power 
of that terrible lord whose name is Pain. 
Physical misery is great everywhere out here. Are 
we justified in shutting our eyes and ignoring it because 
our European newspapers tell us nothing about it ? 
We civilised people have been spoilt. If any one of us 
is ill the doctor comes at once. Is an operation 
necessary, the door of some hospital or other opens to 
us immediately. But let every one reflect on the 
meaning of the fact that out here millions and millions 
live without help or hope of it. Every day thousands 
and thousands endure the most terrible sufferings, 
though medical science could avert them. Every day 
there prevails in many and many a far-off hut a despair 
which we could banish. Will each of my readers think 
what the last ten years of his family history would 
have been if they had been passed without medical or 
surgical help of any sort ? It is time that we should 
wake from slumber and face our responsibilities ! 
Believing it, as I do, to be my fife’s task to fight on 
behalf of the sick under far-off stars, I appeal to the 
sympathy which Jesus and religion generally call for, 
but at the same time I call to my help also our most 
fundamental ideas and reasonings. We ought to see 
the work that needs doing for the coloured folk in their 
misery, not as a mere " good work,” but as a duty that 
must not be shirked. 
Ever since the world’s far-off lands were discovered, 
what has been the conduct of the white peoples to the 
coloured ones ? What is the meaning of the simple fact 
that this and that people has died out, that others are 
dying out, and that the condition of others is getting 
worse and worse as a result of their discovery by men 
