The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-06

cine a. the London hospital la Whit.
ehairi, ] Was attracted hV a hnve crow,
selng inio large tent Ia the slums al
heinef' here WIS singing going az
inside aud curiosity led me III. A.
lrii with the crowd. | came 10 the con
einslon that my religious life MAS 4
hnmbng vowed in future that
would either give Il az OF make II real.
| Was obviously not d thing 10 be-
mhNcd with. some time later I heard
That one Of England : famous cricket.
.iN, whose athletic distinctions | great
~ admired. !. =. X. Studd. was going
Ia speak IA the ncighborhond and /
/ went 10 hear him. Seated in front OF
ine there were two or three rows Of
| boys from training ship. all dressed
| ~ the same uniform. At the end of
his speech Mr.. Studd invited any one
who was not ashamed Ia confess that
Christ WAS his Master for this life.
rather than a kind of insurance ticket
for the next world. 10 stand up. was
both ashamed aud surprised 10 find that
was afraid 20 stand up. | did not
know ! was afraid Of anything. one
boy out OF all this large number rose
10 his feet. knew pretty well what
that meant for him, So | decided to
back him up and do the same. With
this theological outfit. started on my
missionary career. What 10 do was the
next question. | went TO the parson
Of a church where | occasionally at. |
tended and offered myself for class |
of boys in his Sunday school They |
were downright East LOndOners, aud |
their spiritual education needed othcr |
capacities than those had, in my mind,
till then endowed the Sunday school
teacher with. | started to reform them
in the ways that appealed most to my
self. and they learned TO control their
own tempers and respect our capacities
more.
my medical course being finished, ]
east about for some way in which ]
could satisfy the aspirations of young
medical man and combine it with a
desire for adventure and definite Chris
tian work. Sir Frederick Treves, the
famous surgeon, also daring sailor and
master mariner, for whom | had been
loing the work of an ''interne y at the
London hospital, suggested my seeing
{ doctor could live at sea among the
ieep sea fishermen in one of the YES
els of the society for which he was n
member of the council Encouraged by
esults in 1892, | was loaned the largest ,
# the sailing vessels, craft of %
ons burden. in which We sailed to the
CDdSl W stt 4
nglish-speaking fishermen of the =
Northwest Atlantic similar results ,
night not be achieved. In three \
lonths we had 900 patients, to whom {
ye could thus commend our Gospel with 4
ills and plasters, without fear of de- y
ominational interference, besides wit. q
essing condition of poverty to which a
re had been quite strangers over on I
he other side. {
''Many of our most piteous cases at 81
ospital were the direct result OF c,
lronic semi starvation. We started a q
,rmon with cooperative store as Q D
,xt. The people round it were all 81
cavity in debt; most winters they re u
lived so much government relief 10 al
pep them from actual starvation that fc
le place was known as 1.-The Sink q
he people were almost all illiterate lie
I'd knew nothing about business, and of
e little store went through varying as
rtunes. M
".Looking at results of the sermon W
ven wears afterward, / find the peo Il
q clothed fed, Independent, with ri
tie new church building and children nc
r and away better clad and educated. q!
he movement has spread There are OF
w seven cooperative stores, with ke
hooner which carries their products Sc
and from the market. Our store III
epers and crew are Christian men, pr
ii aware that the best Gospel they on
n preach is to keep the store for wa wa
riSt ~ yTy