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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 
