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providing a helper such as he had himself, for those who 
otherwise could not have one . He who has been saved by 
an operation from death or torturing pain, must do his 
part to make it possible for the kindly anaesthetic and 
the helpful knife to begin their work, where death and 
torturing pain still rule unhindered. The mother who 
owes it to medical aid that her child still belongs to 
her, and not to the cold earth, must help, so that the 
poor mother who has never seen a doctor may be spared 
what she has been spared. Where a man’s death agony 
might have been terrible, but could fortunately be made 
tolerable by a doctor’s skill, those who stood around his 
death bed must help, that others, too, may enjoy that 
same consolation when they lose their dear ones. 
Such is the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of 
Pain, and on them lies the humanitarian task of pro- 
viding medical help in the colonies. Their gratitude 
should be the source of the gifts needed. Commissioned 
by them, doctors should go forth to carry out among 
the miserable in far-off lands all that ought to be done 
in the name of civilisation, human and humane. 
Sooner or later the idea which I here put forward will 
conquer the world, for with inexorable logic it carries 
with it the intellect as well as the heart. 
But is just now the right time to send it out into the 
world ? Europe is ruined and full of wretchedness. With 
all the misery that we have to alleviate even under our 
very eyes, how can we think of far-off lands ? 
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now 
— always, and indeed then most truly when it seems 
most unsuitable to actual circumstances. Care for 
distress at home and care for distress elsewhere do but 
help each other if, working together, they wake men in 
