Category: Biographies
This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence--a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of Newfound...
After family prayers, in which we, the strangers he had taken in, were commended to the care and mercy of God in such simple, feeling phrases as proved the fine quality of this...
4. Part 4When, at last, word comes south that the ice is clearing from the coast, the vessels spread their little wings to the first favouring winds; and in a week--two weeks or three--t...
3. Part 3It was a hard alternative. The doctor is not a man to give or take when the bargain has been struck; the engineer knew that he would surely go ashore somewhere on that desolate...
2. Part 2I have said that the Newfoundlanders occasionally navigate by means of old rhymes; and this brings me to the case of Zachariah, the skipper of the _Heavenly Rest_. He was a Newf...
6. Part 6The doctor was glad "to get the chloroform mask over the boy's face"--he is a sympathetic man, the doctor; glad, always, to ease pain. And at one o'clock in the morning the brok...
1. Part 1This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence--a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred...