The poor meet promptly the misfortunes which confront the home circle and household of the neighbour.

The giver of money, if his contribution is to be valuable, must add service in the way of study, and he must help to attack and improve underlying conditions.

Not being so pressed by the racking necessities, it is he that should be better able to attack the subject from a more scientific standpoint; but the final analysis is the same: his money is a feeble offering without the study behind it which will make its expenditure effective.
Great hospitals conducted by noble and unselfish men and women are doing wonderful work; but no less important are the achievements in research that reveal hitherto unknown facts about diseases and provide the remedies by which many of them can be relieved or even stamped out.
To help the sick and distressed appeals to the kind-hearted always, but to help the investigator who is striving successfully to attack the causes which bring about sickness and distress does not so strongly attract the giver of money.

The first appeals to the sentiments overpoweringly, but the second has the head to deal with.
Yet I am sure we are making wonderful advances in this field of scientific giving.

All over the world the need of dealing with the questions of philanthropy with something beyond the impulses of emotion is evident, and everywhere help is being given to those heroic men and women who are devoting themselves to the practical and essentially scientific tasks.