Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-22
Los ANGELES HERALD MONDAY MORNINGS FEBRUARY

| of the great churches of your large
cities.
I'VE began on the Holland and Nor
Wegian coast. Our first trouble was
! liquor. I have no use for alcohol.
never want to turn in below when the
man above is intoxicated. We have
driven liquor off the North sea and
every floating hell has been driven off.
If it is not necessary it is not essen
tial, and if it is not essential it is not
| advisable.
1.-THE sorriest things in our work have
happened through liquor. L have had
! to go to wives and mothers and tell
them that husbands and fathers have
been lured to a floating hell at sea, and
have been drowned while drunk
I'm 1892 L borrowed a vessel and
| brought her out from Yarmouth to
| Labrador and cruised along that wild
coast for three months. Now we have
| thirteen vessels on the north sea, the
| hands all preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ and all fishing for a living. En-
! graved on the wheel of every vessel
is the inscription, Follow me; I will
make you fishers Of men, That is as
good for the cook as for the doctor.
| We cruise from June to November and
| visit some 1900 schooners and many
little villages along the coast.
No Liquor Licenses
1--WE have always taken an unhesi-
| tating stand against liquor and we
| have got out all the saloons and got
| temperance in. / am magistrate for
the coast and no liquor licenses will
be granted.
"One way we go about our work is
in the healing of the sick. The way
! of the Good Samaritan is as good a
way to preach the gospel as that of
the priest or LeVite. If l find a man
with a cataract on one eye and he
| cannot see, if | operate on it and he
can see again it is as good for him as
when Christ healed the blind Or if
l go to a woman whose child is sick
the message of Gods love comes to
her as in the olden days when Christ
healed the sick.
I'VE try to solve the problem of
how Jesus would preach today. A man
| with a broken leg in Labrador wants
| it set as badly as does any man, and
| wants it set in a rational way, too.
Jesus Christ expects us not to do our
work in slovenly way. 1 might go
to Labrador and pray and pray that
| the men who had scurvy in the spring
would not suffer from the conse-
| Quences. All the absent treatment in
the world and that sort of thing are
no good
I'VE have to fight tuberculosis. One
out Of every three children last year
died before reaching the age of one
year. One out of every three deaths
is due to tuberculosis. The way to
cure that is not to stay at home and
pray and neglect the ordinary things
that God has taught US, but to go to
the people and tell them to open their
windows and not spit on the floor and
to feed their babies milk You can
pray as long as you like, but the fact
| remains that so long as God has given
us the means of curing people they
not OOinc IN "a
do it,
I'VE now have four hospitals and
much of our work is done in that way.
One night 1 was called by a father to
set a broken bone in the leg of his
child. Was not that a grand oppor-
tInlty for me, for there was no one
else to do it?
"One Christmas morning I was
called to little village by the sea-a
boy of 10 years had blown off his knee
cap. | had the opportunity of giving
back that boy to his mother a few
weeks later cured. Was not that a
Christmas present worth having? God
gives US the opportunities and the ca
pacity and he gives better returns than
gold and silver.
Help from All Quarters
we have all sorts of help out there
noW-men from Harvard, Yale and
Princeton and men who could go to
Europe for grand tour Instead if
they chose. Why? Where they might
eat dinners of ten courses we give but
one course. They rejoice in an oppor-
tunity of doing good for others.
THE service of Jesus Christ calls for
reason, not sentiment and emotion.
We used to hear it said that religion
was good enough for the old but was
not for the young. 1t requires reason.
Along Labrador the people were
white slaves, lived and died in debt
and were never half paid for their
work. What will the missionary do if
he prayS for them and let's them be
robbed? We started a cooperative
store. That sounds easy, but every
man was in debt. We had to wait
eighteen months in one village before
$85 could be raised. Now there is a
series of stores within the reach of the
people on a cash basis of trade The
country itself is better than your des-
ert through which have been travel
ing the past two days, but CONNER
c1allsm had entered there, as it seems
to have everywhere. Now the gospel
of Jesus Christ loves to take molasses.
pork and flour and sell it cheaper and
better as method of telling his mes
sage. His trained nurses are doing
most undeniable missionary work. They
don't have to talk much philosophy,
but they let their gentle ministrations
tell the message of love in the homes
they enter.'
DR.. Grenfell then said that last East
ef day he was called to visit a sick
person sixty miles away and started
with team of eight dogs 1t was
ElghtfaIl and the next morning the ice
suddenly gave way and he himself, his
sled and the eight dogs were thrown
into the water. Finally they managed
to scramble on a piece of ice After
much difficulty they changed to a
larger piece, but to his horror he found
II was floating out to sea.
Kills Three of His Dogs
Through exposure and the loss of his
clothing he was almost frozen, and in
order to keep alive he killed three of
his dogs, skinned them and took their
skins to wrap himself in. He then
passed the night surrounded by the
remaining dogs In the morning he
found that q counter current was
drifting them back toward land. He
cut off the legs of the dogs he had
killed and with the bones made a pole,
to which he attached a piece Of cloth
ing, making a, flag
1t happened that the night before
some fisher lads had been returning
late and~one thought that he could see
a speck moving out toward sea. The
others paid no attention to it, but the
lad who had seen it returned with a
held glass and made out something
moving. They tried to get out a boat
that night, but were unable to on ac-
count of the broken ice Next morn
ing, however, they succeeded. and
when they came up to DR.. GrenfeIl,
each man solemnly shook hands with
him. 'They didn't make any speeches
they didn't have to- said DIR. Gren-