One closing word.  Do not make the mistake, those of you who are young men, of thinking that when you get out of school or college your education stops.  On the contrary, it is only about half begun.  Now, I am fifty years old, and if I had stopped learning, if I felt now that I had stopped learning, had stopped trying to better myself, I feel that my usefulness to the community would be pretty nearly at an end.  And I want each of you, as he leaves college, not to feel, “Now I have had my education, I can afford to vegetate.”  I want you to feel, “I have been given a great opportunity of laying deep the foundations for a ripe education, and while going on with my work I am going to keep training myself, educating myself, so that year by year, decade by decade, instead of standing still I shall go forward, and grow constantly fitter, and do good work and better work.”

I visited, many years ago, the college at Beirut.  I have known at first hand what excellent work was being done there.  Unfortunately, owing to my very limited time, it is not going to be possible for me to stop at the college at Assiut, which has done such admirable work in Egypt and here in the Sudan, whose graduates I meet in all kinds of occupations wherever I stop.  I am proud, as an American, Dr. Giffen, of what has been done by men like you, like Mr. Young, like the other Americans who have been here, and, I want to say still further, by the women who have come with them.  I always thought that the American was a pretty good fellow.  I think his wife is still better, and, great though my respect for the man from America has been, my respect for the woman has been greater.

I stopped a few days ago at the little mission at the Sobat.  One of the things that struck me there was what was being accomplished by the medical side of that mission.  From one hundred and twenty-five miles around there were patients who had come in to be attended to by the doctors in the mission.  There were about thirty patients who were under the charge of the surgeon, the doctor, at that mission.  I do not know a better type of missionary than the doctor who comes out here and does his work well and gives his whole heart to it.  He is doing practical work of the most valuable type for civilization, and for bringing the people of the country up to a realization of the standards that you are trying to set.  If you make it evident to a man that you are sincerely concerned in bettering his body, he will be much more ready to believe that you are trying to better his soul.

Now, gentlemen, it has been a great pleasure to see you.  When I get back to the United States, this meeting is one of the things I shall have to tell to my people at home, so that I may give them an idea of what is being done in this country.  I wish you well with all my heart, and I thank you for having received me to-day.

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