.KLP FOR i'iiK FISHERMEN 



The a Ivent of the Deep S-;a Mission, as the society 

 was fondly called, changed all that dark horizon and 

 brought upon the grey and stormy seas just such 

 help as that which could be got ashore. One of the 

 most famous of the young surgeons of the day went 

 out to the North Sea in the Mission smacks and was 

 amongst the pioneers who swept the deadly co(\r 

 from the banks, brought new life and hope to the 

 toilers, and did much to develop the men who came 

 forward in their thousands in the hour of their 



antry's sternest needs. That young surgeon was 

 Frederick Treves, the man on whose skill and judg- 

 ment, in later years, a monarch's life depended. 



Many a life and many a limb were saved by this 

 pioneer band of doctors, and to their help and guid- 



ce was due much of that simple skill with which 

 Mission skippers handled the contents of their well- 

 equipped dispensaries. These Mission skippers 

 w^re themselves old fishermen and therefore knew 

 exactly what to do and how to do it in cases of 



Lergency. To them indeed it was a wonderful 

 change that was brought about in the floating towns 

 in which most of their lives had been spent. There 

 was no longer the hopeless outlook on life, the 

 resignation to unmitigated toil and monotony, for 

 there had come into the midst of their ileets the little 

 bethels which for so many of them stood in the 

 relation of the place of worship at home and gave 

 them, side by side with the Gospel, the material and 

 mental recreation which made of so many of them a 

 new race of men. The band of pioneer doctors and 



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