d to be
in his harbour. The swelling had gone, the molar was there. "Ne'er an
ache out of her since," the patient laughed. I have not reported this
end result to the committee of the American College of Surgeons,
though much attention is now devoted to the follow-up and end-result
department of surgery and medicine.

CHAPTER XX

MARRIAGE

It was now the fall of 1908, and the time had come for me to visit
England again and try and arouse fresh interest in our work; and this
motive was combined with the desire to see my old mother, who was now
nearing her fourscore years. I decided to leave in November and return
_via_ America in the spring to receive the honorary degree of LL.D.
from Williams College and of M.A. from Harvard, which I had been
generously offered.

My lecture tour this winter was entrusted to an agency. Propaganda is
a recognized necessity in human life, though it has little attraction
for most men. To me having to ask personally for money even for other
people was always a difficulty. Scores of times I have been blamed for
not even stating in a lecture that we needed help. The distaste for
beating the big drum, which lecturing for your own work always appears
to be, makes me quite unable to see any virtue in not doing it, but
just asking the Lord to do it. If I really were convinced that He
would meet the expenses whether I worked or not, I should believe that
neither would He let people suffer and die untended out here or
anywhere else. Indeed, it would seem a work of supererogation to have
to remind Him of the necessity that existed.

The fact that we have to show pictures of the work which we are doing
is tiresome and takes time, but it encourages us to have pictures
worth taking and to do deeds which we are not ashamed to narrate. It
also stimulates others to give themselves as well as their money to
similar kinds of work at their own doorsteps, to see how much like
themselves their almoners are. Only to-day my volunteer secretary told
me that he honestly expected to meet "a bearded old fogey in
spectacles," not a man who can shoot his own dinner from the wing or
who enjoys the justifiable pleasures of life.

The religion of Christ never permitted me to accept the idea that
there is "nothing to do, only believe." Every man ought to earn his
own bread and the means to support his family. Why, then, should you
have only to ask the Lord to give unasked the wherewithal to feed
other peopl