Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true lawyer's idea of his profession does not consist in the ordinary routine expressed by crime, retribution and a fee, but in abolishing the conditions which lead to sin. The effectiveness of this method for preventing crime itself is illustrated by the improvement obtained among the Labrador fishermen, and by the present result of prohibition in the state of Maine. Although the liquor dealers have done their best to make the prohibition law ineffective in that state, yet, since its introduction, the amount of crime has shown a significant decline...
...often the synonym of "don't want to" and not "can't." Dr. Grenfell showed how many of the noblest things in life must be taken as such on faith, even those things which seem entirely unreasonable. In this connection he cited numerous examples from his Labrador experiences with fishermen,--rough, brutal men, opposed to all that was harmonious in life, whose lives had been completely changed by their faith in Christ. Today men stigmatize as fanatics even those who are benefited by their faith; surely such scoffers are fools in their ignorance. Since faith has been so unanimously approved...
...illustrated lecture delivered in the Union last evening, Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell h.'09 very interestingly and vividly described the life of the fishermen and trappers of the North and told of the mission work being done among them...
...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...
...Grenfell, who has visited the University a number of times, graduated from Queen's College, Oxford, in 1886, and later worked under Sir Frederick Treves in the London Hospital, where he acquired the medical knowledge necessary for his career. In 1887 he became medical missionary to the North Sea fishermen under the direction of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, and cruised for a number of years about Iceland attending to the needs of the fishermen. Finally, in 1892, he went to Labrador, where he has worked ever since to alleviate the sufferings of the fishermen by building...