The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-15

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comfortable jail7
II the idea appeals TO you and you
have also hankering for novel seem
cry and adventure try to get DIR. VIII
fred I. Grenfell to take you along with
him to Labrador in June when he sails
on his nineteenth annual visit TO his
100000 charges, who make their scanty
living along the iceberg coast"
The jail proposition is n new one of
DIR. Grenfelrs. Heretofore one of his
principal activities has been assisting
men TO keep out Of Jail by teaching
them the benefits OF clean, decent. hon
est living. But he says that he had to
build the jail on the Labrador coast
for "boozers" Now that the boozers
are all reformed there is no use left for
the Jail but TO lodge young men willing
to go to the Labrador and Newfound-
land coasts to see for themselves what
tho "angel OF Labrador Is doing and
TO assist I'm the work IL their inclina-
tion leads them in that direction. II
will surely do so II they fall within the
spell OF DR.. Grenfell's persuasion. Like
all great men, he is full of his subject
and eloquent and moving in his expo
sition of his work and it's objects.
II you want n chance to help save
100000 fellow humans from the evils
and distresses OF semistarvation, chron-
ic illness and deadly tedlum of life in
one OF the earths back eddies follow
DIR. Grenfell in his crusade. Ho is one
OF the really worth while" men Of to-
day.
Dr. Grenfell IS a medical missionary
AaN fa he %
the body with the healing OF the spirit
and adds TO the distribution OF the
bread OF life the furnishing OF nutrl-
ment needed for the sustenance Of the
body. He brings TO his work the skill
OF the we'll trained medical practitioner
and the zeal OF the worker in the
Lords vineyard. He is devoting his
life TO the cause of the Eskimo and the
poor fisher folk OF Labrador and New
foundland. who have found in him the
friend In need" whose aid Is so effica-
cious.
Labrador and Newfoundland form his
field OF operations. They are a world
which he has made his own solely and
simply for the purpose OF doing good
to tho Inhabitants thereof. with no
thought Of exploitation OF personal
gain. In him lives again the spirit OF
the old time crusaders who gave them
selves body and soul to a holy mission,
Small wonder that the world today
numbers DIR. Grenfell among it's doers
OF noble deeds or that the folk OF Eng
land and America and Canada and 9TH
er parts OF the earth attend him with
open ear and willing hand when he
calls for aid. From small beginnings
he has labored to establish his Labra-
dor mission on firm footing, and the
sun now rises above the high. bleak
cliffs of his chosen field with assurance
of support from men and women inter-
ested in his work.
Probably the reader has never heard
OF the Grenfell Association OF America.
II is not known as well among the peo-
pie OF America as It deserves. II is an
association FOR aiding philanthropic
work among the deep sea fishermen of
Labrador" and It is named for the man
who Is devoting his life to the work.
II is probably the only case in the his
tory OF the world OF an association OF
phllanthropic men and women formed
TO assist in the furtherance OF the la
bors OF one man. It's headquarters are
In New York city. and II was incorpo-
rated under the laws OF tho state of
New York in 1907. The president OF the
association is DIR. Henry van Dyke, the
we'll known divine and poet.
DIR. Grenfell arrived recently in New
York from England, which country he
had been visiting In the interests Of
his work. His program In this country
before his leaving for his field of oper-
ations in Labrador included several lee
lures on his life work.
He is TO have soon a new boat TO as
sist him in providing for the wants OF
the third OF a million men. women and
children who are his own especial
charges. This is TO be three masted
auxiliary schooner for carrying freight
to and from and among DIR, Grenfelrs
stations on the Newfoundland and Lab
rador coasts She is TO become part OF
the Grenfell fleet, which win include.
besides the new schooner. the steam
yacht Strathcona. the yawl Andrew j.
McCosh. presented 10 DR.. Grenfen by
students OF Princeton university in
1909 es a. memorial 70 DR.. Andrew ]