THE MISSION FREE DISPENSARY _Staff_ Physician in charge, Dr. Charles H. Bowker, 1204 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. _Associates_ Dr. Oliver C. Cox, 1320 Eleventh Street, N. W. Dr. W. O. Owen, Southern Building. Dr. William F. Hemler, 706 Eighth Street, N. W. Dr. C. A. Simpson, 1217 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Dr. C. F. Dufour, 1347 L Street, N. W. Dr. Adam Kemble, Cecil Apartments, Fifteenth and L Streets, N. W. Dr. Jesse Ramsburgh, The Portner. _Hours for Treatment_ Medical and surgical cases treated daily, 11 to 12 A.M. Diseases of Women—Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Diseases of Men—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Diseases of Children—Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Diseases of Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat—Monday and Thursday. _Report for the Year Ending April 30, 1913_ Cases treated 2500 Referred to Hospital 80 Treated at homes 80 The dispensary is in need of a sterilizer and a special fund for medical supplies for those too poor to pay. * * * * * The sterilizer later was the gift of Dr. Jesse Ramsburgh, and we have a complete set of lenses for testing the eyes of school children. It would break your heart to see the women with babies, the aged on crutches, the hosts of children, the aged victims of every vice, now broken and often repentant, seek the aid of these good men. Often we run short of remedies. “What do they do then?” you ask. Well, they simply go down in their own pockets and buy the necessities, and no one is turned empty away. Think of a procession of sick and needy persons, 2500 human beings in line, and you will see in your mind what that blessed dispensary has done for the sorrowful of this city in one year. I wish I dare to tell you the particulars of one of these great physicians who had not been living close to God, seeing our work of faith, seeing how the Mission people lay their many needs before a patient God, who meets every demand in answer to their prayer, and possibly feeling that in a mission he could not minister to a mind diseased without himself being in touch with the living God, was led to revise his views, make public confession of his faith and enlist in God's organized method of evangelizing the world by joining the church. We all need God, but the hand that reaches down to help sinful men must have the other hand clasped close in God's strong hand if he would do effective work. CHAPTER X THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL St. Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the _power_ of God unto salvation.”