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only clergyman was rather in pursuit of health ; but 

 we met in the Straits of Belle Isle Bishop MacDonnel 

 and the Rev. Father Lynch, of the Roman Catholic 

 Church. I must mention also that the Bible Society 

 send a colporteur every year to sell Bibles and testa- 

 ments on the coast, though we did not fall in with 

 him this year, nor do I know how much of the coast 

 he travels over. Last year a tiny schooner, manned 

 by three Salvation Army captains, also visited the 

 coast, partly fishing and partly preaching the gospel. 

 Among the fishermen themselves we met many ear- 

 nest and pious Christians, and as on the North Sea, 

 so on this bleak coast we have felt God's presence 

 quite as real and as near in the meetings on board or 

 in the huts as we have in great buildings and com- 

 ' fortable pews in the old country. 



Among past workers in Labrador I hear of the 

 Rev. J. G. Curling, Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, and Rev. 

 Mr. Quintain. The last two spent many years in 

 Labrador, while the Rev. J. Bull spent three years 

 at Battle Harbour. The Right Rev. Llewellyn Jones, 

 Bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda, has also visited 

 the coast, as did Bishop Field, his predecessor. The 

 Rev. Father Lemoine, labouring among the Mon- 

 taignais Indians of the interior, also sometimes comes 

 out on the coast during the summer. 1 



1 Bishop Jones sent three visiting clergymen to Labrador this summer 

 1894- 



