THE FELLOWSHIP OF PAIN 
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sufficient numbers from their thoughtlessness, and call 
into life a new spirit of humanity. 
But let no one say : “ Suppose ‘ the Fellowship of 
those who bear the Mark of Pain ’ does by way of be- 
ginning send one doctor here, another there, what is 
that to cope with the misery of the world ? ” From 
my own experience and from that of all colonial doctors, 
I answer, that a single doctor out here with the most 
modest equipment means very much for very many. 
The good which he can accomplish surpasses a hundred- 
fold what he gives of his own life and the cost of the 
material support which he must have . J ust with quinine 
and arsenic for malaria, with novarsenobenzol for the 
various diseases which spread through ulcerating sores, 
with emetin for dysentery, and with sufficient skill and 
apparatus for the most necessary operations, he can in 
a single year free from the power of suffering and death 
hundreds of men who must otherwise have succumbed 
to their fate in despair. It is just exactly the advance 
of tropical medicine during the last fifteen years which 
gives us a power over the sufferings of the men of far- 
off lands that borders on the miraculous. Is not this 
really a call to us ? 
For myself, now that my health, which since 1918 had 
been very uncertain, has been restored as the result of two 
operations, and that I have succeeded, by means of 
lectures and organ concerts, in discharging the debts 
which I had to incur during the war for the sake of my 
work, I venture to resolve to continue my activity 
among the suffering folk of whom I have written. The 
work, indeed, as I began it, has been ruined by the war. 
The friends from two nations who joined in supporting 
us, have been, alas ! deeply divided by what has 
