That would not only influence the location of doctors and hospitals, it would also affect the character of the buildings and would demand a special type of medical missionary.

Or again, we hear it argued that medical missions are the point of the missionary sword; but if it is the point of the sword then it ought to be in front of the blade.

That, too, would direct the location of the doctors and hospitals.

It would also affect the character of the building unless the missionary sword is to become an immovable object, which having once cleft a rock remains fast in the breach until a God-sent hero, like King Arthur, appears to pull it out and set it to work again.

We cannot state all the different aims.