st part of the country, Labrador and North Newfoundland,
because there is no chance whatever at present for the poor people to
obtain it otherwise. Our _pro rata_ share of the taxes, if judged by
the paltry Government grant toward the work, would not provide
anything worth having. The people here pay far better in proportion to
their ability for hospital privileges than they do in Boston or
London; the Government pays a little, and the rest comes from the
loving gifts of those who desire nothing better, when they know of
real need, than to make sacrifices to meet it.

One feels that the Chinese and Japanese and all nations will be able
some day to pay for their own doctors, whether they do it on
individualistic or communistic principles. In the present state of the
world I believe the missionary enterprise to be entirely desirable, or
I would not be where I am. But being a Christian with a little faith,
I hope that it may not be so forever. If anything will stimulate to
better methods, it is example, not precept, and perhaps the best work
of this and all missions will be their reflex influences on
Governments through the governed.

To carry on the bare essentials of this work an endowment of at least
a million dollars is necessary. Toward this a hundred and sixty
thousand dollars is all that has been contributed, and in addition we
can count annually upon a small Government grant. Even if this million
dollars were given, it would still leave several thousand dollars to
be raised by voluntary subscription each year, a healthy thing for the
life of any charitable work. On the other hand, the certainty of being
able to meet the main bills is an economy in nerve energy, in time and
in money.

Among our patients brought in one season to St. Anthony Hospital was
the mother of ten children on whom an emergency operation for
appendicitis had to be done--the first time in her life that a doctor
had ever tended her. She came from a very poor home, for besides her
large family her husband had been all his life handicapped by a
serious deformity of one leg caused by a fall. She reminded me of how
some years before a traveller had left her the rug from his dog
sledge, as, without any bedclothes, she was again about to give birth
to a child; how she had actually been unable at times to turn over in
bed, because her personal clothing had frozen solid to the wall of the
one-roomed hut in which she lived.

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