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John's itself, where fifty saloons have provided the 

 entertainment for the thousands of our Labrador fisher- 

 men who resort there, a large temperance institute on 

 modern lines is in course of erection. 



To the " shut-in" folk, to the unusually isolated, to those 

 with no friends outside, the message took the form of a 

 society of volunteer lady correspondents, who try to keep 

 in individual, personal contact with the troubles and 

 needs of the men and women whose names are allotted to 

 them. 



In the great need of milk for children, need of meat to 

 ward off scurvy, and need for an additional source of revenue 

 for the people, the best advocate for the message may be 

 the introduction of reindeer ; and a herd of three hundred 

 of these animals has been introduced into Labrador and 

 Newfoundland. 



The actually starving have been admitted to hospital 

 for feeding pure and simple. On many occasions the home- 

 less and travelling strangers have been entertained. As 

 far as possible, the hospitals have always stood for hotels 

 as well. 



That Christ would interpret the love of the Father in 

 Heaven to His children on this coast merely by the erection 

 of churches, the duplication of religious services, the in- 

 sisting on an orthodox intellectual attitude by doctrinal 

 methods, has not been the premise on which the work 

 has been developed. To say that the results are imper- 

 fect is to say the work is human work. To say that visible 

 progress, acknowledged progress, has been made, is a simple 

 statement of fact, a statement which would meet with 

 the subscription of every member of the present Mission 



