The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
Patron Saint and Great Father of a
Land Where the People Live Hard and
Drown Early. Here You Will Learn
of His Adventures

his own, but above all things religion that woul be
saysrSS ;IIlIGcd determination to
martyr himself at all costs, II was qulct resolve % m
mako the best Of his bfc-o md pace III tue "o'''
At once he cast about to use his own words, Tor
some way in which could satisfy the aspirations OF
Young medical man. and combine thus with :! desire
for adventure AMI definite humanitarian work .,
After applying certain revolutionary IDEAS to Gun
dayscbool work in the slums oil London. in which a
horizontal bar and a set of boxing gloves for a lmo
ioined The staff of the Royal National Mission to Deep
Sea Fishermen, and established tho medical mission 10
tho fishermen of all nations who travel inc goEtn @ SO sr
When that work was organized. aud al The hght gone
out OF it, be sought harder task ,. ,-o.. y,r
mouth barbor for Labrador in nlnety-tou schooner
Since then tss fac? Of a1dshps PHf and Tpe
healed the sick preached the Word. clothed the naked
rS% rs% the 41 the wroDgc and has
fought evil poverty, oppression aud dlseas'' disease AND
II HAVE talked with the doctor s publishers naNc
Il read his robust books The harvest OF inc
Sea - and Down to the Sea, and have also read
Norman Duncan . vivid and picturesque volume OF nP-
probation. - Dr. Grenfel Parish, but better lar
have aud talked with the man himself 49,,
am a%3SS % Gta 10 I,', % oncd - pnoi NV hand trh,
Is and gave it characteristic shake TOOK seat
beside him on an upholstered ottoman IN the DAINTY
music-room of his wealthy host and was soon put at
s.My agc!'' repeated tho doctor laugbingIy. u was
born forty-siN years ago at Cheshire England Mar
ricd the best in the wordIh9d to 90 to en-, &
wlntered with ME in Labrador last year, but IT'S
rather rough IL
Labrador WS it SS bsr to e"S Sy ' A we haTe
missions along the coast pretty well established by
every winter in the H. Other oluntcerS have ial
leu line. and there's no lack OF hospital 1aclhtcs
and surgeons up there at the present time,
II expect TO spend alternate winters in Newiound-
land and Labrador The rest of the time Will devote
he of the most service TO my people We funds
carry the work, AMI lectures will help have
ground that the work will not suffer during my alb
's'rclI me about tho beginning suggested
''Iu. 1889 while studying medicine in London. |
was attracted by huge crowd going into large tent.
a spirit OF curiosity ! listened to Dwight Il. Moody,
an. came to the ScnSsGS Gat my rGg@s 5fe scr Is@
give it up make it real. 1t was obviously thing
not TO be played with.
about for way in which could satisfy the asp
ratons Of young medical man man and and combine W,n
work. Sir Frederick Treyes the famous surgeon also
daring sailor and master ar,neT % ;ugges'ed d my see
the deepsea fishermen of the vessels Of the
cietE for which he was member of the council.
North sea, in 1892 was loaned the largest sailing
vessel belonging to the society, aud sailed for the
Labrador 70 whether among EugIishspeak
ing fishermen of the northwest Atlantic similar re-
patients to whom could prescribe religion as well as
pills and piasters without fear of denominatonal in
tcrfercncc
"'T witnessed a condition Of poverty to 1
had been quite stranger on the other side of the
Atlantic. Unable to do the ship to those men
would have them do unto under similar clrcum
stances VIC called on the way home at ST John 5
Newfoundland. and laid the matter before the mcr
chants asking for help to build hospital the
land and promising to bring out doctor and nurse
to live there if they built it.
"W now have 9. -four hospitals on that aes9Iats plate
here in New York, but humble wood buildings where
= Guahed doctor and trained nurse reside, where be
SIDE their own rooms they have dozen beds Tor