Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-09-30

tected homes, flndtheir way to many who
would otherwise afford grand soil for the
germs Of the great white plague. Books
out Of the circulating library OF the So
ciety, containing 400 volumes OF good
wholesome reading, together with an in
Vulnerable supply Of lesson leaflets and
religious papers, are left at each visit, the
batch Of books thst have been read being
displaced by smother lot from the intel
lectual store house OF this welcome visitor.
Children facing Q lifetime Of suffering
and disease, avoidable by the wonderful
skill OF modern surgery or proper care and
treatment, find their way by some mysteri-
Gus means to hospitals, and there are given
back health and strength, or ct least their
sufierings are greatly reduced. Postofiices
are established and regular mail commune
cation maintained where the people had
not supposed it possible. Schools have
been created and improved, illiterate COM
munities have been uplifted toward more
elevated plane, and through the simple
church services, the Sunday school and the
Christian Endeavor prayer meetings, re-
ligious services have been established and
maintained regularly where they never
existed before. Communities have been
awakened and, approaching what they
have bssn missing. have built churches
and este blished regular religious worship
under PASTORAL direction.
One Of the interesting features OF the
trip which the writer took ~ . passenger
on the easterly cruise OF the missionary
yacht, was the dedication Of the church
ct Corea which hss been completed by the
people Of Corea with almost no outside
aid, q told in the recent story Of the ded-
ication in this paper. After having worked
for years to that end, the projectors were
well nigh discouraged, but the friendly
counsel Of Missionary Macdonald, whom
they have adopted as their consulting pas
tor, renewed their courage, and they a.
nsily completed the building and dedi-
Gated it free Of debt.
Many interesting sidelights on his work
were admitted by Rev. A. P. Macdonald
during the all too brief cruise Of the
newspaper man, but perhaps none was
more touching than his reference one
afternoon as the yacht passed a certain
settlement.
1--WE shall not stop there this afternoon,
but I'll call on my way back. Out on that
island, with only her own immediate fam
lily for company, lives woman who wrote
me letter one day. I had sailed right
past, intending to leave her call until
another trip, as the time was short to make
my usual visits and get back to Bar Har-
Dor on time. Later got letter from her.
1t was pitiful in the Loneliness that
breathed ell through it. She wrote: Il
had hoped you would call, when saw
your launch coming. wanted to see you
so much. II you could stop for no more
than little chat
sThat woman was sick with throat
trouble, SO that she was in danger OF
strangling every time she fell asleep, for
weeks, and had to be watched when
asleep, constantly. Her three boys all had
the typhoid fever, the result OF drinking
rain water which had become tainted
with the germs. Her husband took care
Of her and of the boys, besides two little
SlAo wv yOoh6 " w VI my uclP, w ueu
his temperature was often, in fact much
Of the time, at 102. And they all finally
got well.
"But am planting system Of signals
for such cases, 30 that when I am really
needed at q station, and am Obliged to sail
right past, or think am, they may signal
me, and viii at least make . brief CALL"
Weddings and funerals both come into
his life often, although he admits that the
latter are far moro common in his parish
than the former: He ID the friend Of hum
dreds Of people who, but tor him, might
never come in touch with the influences
Of the religion Of Jesus Christ, who had
His disciples push out little from the
shore while he talked with the people. In
His footsteps, Missionary Macdonald
pushes out his frsil craft, with genial
Engineer DAN Mcdonald at the throttle,