Labrador, the country and the people . the attitude Christ would assume to-dayin the varying phases of the fishermans life. From the inception of this work no man has, therefore,ever been engaged by the Deep-sea Mission in the capacityof priest or clergyman. Its staff has been always confinedto laymen and to women specially trained in the variousdepartments of work allotted to them. To the sick the message has been, last year: fourhospitals, three power-launches carrying medicine-cases,and in winter well-equipped dog-sleighs, stout teams, andmany thousands of miles covered in visits from Natas
Labrador, the country and the people . the attitude Christ would assume to-dayin the varying phases of the fishermans life. From the inception of this work no man has, therefore,ever been engaged by the Deep-sea Mission in the capacityof priest or clergyman. Its staff has been always confinedto laymen and to women specially trained in the variousdepartments of work allotted to them. To the sick the message has been, last year: fourhospitals, three power-launches carrying medicine-cases,and in winter well-equipped dog-sleighs, stout teams, andmany thousands of miles covered in visits from Natasquahanin the Gulf of Nain on the northeast coast, and from PortSanders on the west to Whooping Harbour on the east coastof Newfoundland. Within reach of the naked, over $2000 worth of clothinghas been placed, their independence being carefully pre-served by work demanded in return wherever the recipientswere able-bodied. In relation to equity, complaints have been brought be-fore the medical officer as honorary magistrate, and as far. Mission S. S. Strathcona THE MISSIONS 247 as possible settled; claims considered and as far as possibleadjusted, over the three thousand miles travelled by thehospital steamers, which has had many times to resolveitself into a court of justice. In several cases injustice hasbeen prevented, wrong-doing has been punished, and allalong that coast efforts have been made to render it possiblefor right to be done, and respect for the law to be engen-dered. In view of the terrible ignorance of ordinary health pre-cautions that was costing the people so dearly, and in re-lation to the treatment of young children and methods ofsanitation, printed rules and catechisms have not only beendistributed, but taught from end to end of the medical officers are encouraged by the steadily increas-ing observance of sanitary rules. To aid in destroying the oppressive Hruck system oftrade, which keeps its poor victims in a sort of apatheticsatisfaction with
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