graduation." [Footnote: Presbyterian Hospital, San Juan, P.I.]

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"Of first importance in the physical well-being of the boy or girl
is the knowledge that will lead to a wholesome development of body
and mind.

"One of the most important phases of Home Mission medical work is
instructing the students in Mission Homes and Schools in health and
home sanitation, bringing to them something of the ideal for their
older lives that Dr. David Starr Jordan expresses in "The Call of
the Twentieth Century," where he speaks to the boy of to-day:

"So live that your after self--the man you ought to be--may in
time be possible and actual. Far away in the twenties, the thirties
of this century, he is awaiting his turn. His body, his brain, his
soul are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. What will you
leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation,
a mind trained to think and act, a nervous system true as a dial in
its response to the truth about you?"

The place and need of Home Missions as a present day healing
force can be more fully realized when we consider the conditions
peculiar to our country, which call urgently for greatly increased
facilities for physical regeneration.

Pre-eminent among these are the constant influx of aliens from
southern Europe and others of a dangerously low standard as regards
sanitation and health--and the economic pressure which produces