Their Urgent Need of Support During the war the medical work of British missionary societies was greatly hampered through the loss of doctors on war service and by reason of the lack of reinforcements. Medical missions will never cease to be thankful for the proud privilege which was theirs of ministering to the stricken heroes of the Great War, but this was at a cost to their own distinctive service which perhaps will never be fully known. To-day the difficulty of carrying on mission hospitals has become a yet more serious problem on account of the very adverse exchange. It is realized that modern medical work necessitates a certain standard of hospital equipment, and to provide this means at the' present time a grave strain upon the resources of the societies engaged in the enterprise. Indeed it is more than can be anticipated that our British missionary societies will be able to respond. in any adequate degree, to the demands of their medical missions. There will be as much as ever the wil to do so, for there never was a moment when the evangelistic and philanthropic usefulness of medical missions was more highly regarded: the crucial problem will be that "f financial resource.
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