Evening star., 1926-04-11

shore. There are fishing stations
scattered the whole length of Labra
dor.
1t was not the Labrador fishermen
that first found a friend in DR.. Gren-
fell In 1887. when but % years old,
and for four years following, DIR. Gren-
fell was doing medical and surgical
relief work among the fishermen of the
North Sea, as the agent OF the Royal
National Mission to Deep Sea Fisher
men. These expeditions of mercy had
taken him as far away as Iceland and
the coast Of Norway. He became thor
oughly familiar with the life there.
While DIR. Grenfell's work for the
fishermen has been mainly in healing
the body, it has been done voluntarily
as Christian service. In the second
year of his course in medicine at the
University of London he chanced into
an evangelistic meeting conducted by
the famous revivalists, Moody and
Sankey So impressed was he with
the spirit of the meeting that he re-
solved then and there to devote him
self to carrying the gospel of service
wherever duty might call him. The
future proved that it was the fisher
man who needed him most. Wherever
he has gone, it has been avowedly as
and his voice have been offered for
the help OF sinking souls quite as
much as his skill for the help of all
ing bodies.
|. 1t was the Royal National Mission
to Deep Sea Fishermen that loaned
to DIR. Grenfell the vessel in which he
first came to the American Coast He
visited Newfoundland and the Labra-
dor in 1892. in the 90-ton ketch. the
Albert, belonging Ito the mission.
The following year, with another doc
tor and two nurses, he built and main
tained a hospital at Battle Harbor. at
the eastern end Of the Strait of Belle
Isle. From that day to this. the work
for fishermen has been continued and
developed all along the northern coast.
DIR. Grenfell is man of the type
that wins honors and generally wins
wealth in his chosen profession. He
has not sought these, but honors have
been thrust upon him. He is a, COM
panion of the Order of st. Michael and
st. George &C. M. c., one of the
most distinguished orders of British
Knighthood. He is a fellow of the
Royal College Of Surgeons and fell
low of the American College Of Sur
geons. He holds honorary degrees
from oxford and other universities in
England, Canada ana the Onlteu
States. On the day of his coronation.
King George in London pressed but
ton that by means Of cable connec-
tions opened for the first time the
door Of the King George V Institute
in st. Johns, Newfoundland, an ad-
dition to the chain OF stations of the
Grenfell Mission.
For the first several years the La.
brador missions remained under the
supervision Of the Royal National
Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. But
as the work developed and became
better known associations were form
ed in Canada and the United States
to help in the work, principally by
supplying money, medicines and men.
Finally, about 1912, these were all
consolidated in one great society call
ed the International Grenville Asso-
citation, having on it's board Of direc-
tor representatives of the Labrador
Medical Mission of Canada, the New
foundland Grenfell Association, the
Grenfell Association of America, and
the New England Grenfell Associa-
ton, in addition to, those from the
parent society.
The International Grenfell Associa-
tion Is an interdenominational body.
whose directors and staff are all lay.
men with the exception Of one clergy