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tion, were all seen to be parts of a great, cruel, vicious 

 circle in which these thousands were living. Neverthe- 

 less, from the very first, I was not a pessimist. With 

 vastly more certainty to-day, I hold to the view that the 

 circle can be broken, all these people freed and elevated, 

 and a sterling race of workers happily preserved. 



The Deep-sea Mission has set itself to help solve this 

 problem, not merely by telling these men of the tenets of 

 the .Christian faith, as new facts of which they have never 

 heard. The solution appears to the Mission to lie rather 

 in example than in precept. The method aimed at is to 

 illustrate in practice the attitude Christ would assume to-day 

 in the varying phases of the fisherman's life. 



From the inception of this work no man has, therefore, 

 ever been engaged by the Deep-sea Mission in the capacity 

 of priest or clergyman. Its staff has been always confined 

 to laymen and to women specially trained in the various 

 departments of work allotted to them. 



To the sick the message has been, last year: four 

 hospitals, three power-launches carrying medicine-cases, 

 and in winter well-equipped dog-sleighs, stout teams, and 

 many thousands of miles covered in visits from Natasquahan 

 in the Gulf of Nain on the northeast coast, and from Port 

 Sanders on the west to Whooping Harbour on the east coast 

 of Newfoundland. 



Within reach of the naked, over $2000 worth of clothing 

 has been placed, their independence being carefully pre- 

 served by work demanded in return wherever the recipients 

 were able-bodied. 



In relation to equity, complaints have been brought be- 

 fore the medical officer as honorary magistrate, and as far 



