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cope with the need. So again, we see, the real burden of 
the humanitarian work must fall upon society and its 
individual members. We must have doctors who go 
among the coloured people of their own accord and are 
ready to put up with all that is meant by absence from 
home and civilisation. I can say from experience that 
they will find a rich reward for ail that they renounce in 
the good that they can do. 
Among the poor people out here they will not as a 
rule be able to collect the cost of their own living and 
work ; men must come forward at home who will pro- 
vide what is necessary, and that is something that is 
due from all of us. But whom shall we get to make a 
beginning, without waiting till the duty is universally 
recognised and acted on ? 
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The Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain. 
Who are the members of this Fellowship ? Those who 
have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily 
anguish mean, belong together all the world over ; they 
are united by a secret bond. One and all they know the 
horrors of suffering to which man can be exposed, and 
one and all they know the longing to be free from pain. 
He who has been delivered from pain must not think 
he is now free again, and at liberty to take life up 
just as it was before, entirely forgetful of the past. He 
is now a “ man whose eyes are open ” with regard to 
pain and anguish, and he must help to overcome those 
two enemies (so far as human power can control them) 
and to bring to others the deliverance which he has 
himself enjoyed. The man who, with a doctor’s help, 
has been pulled through a severe illness, must aid in 
