DOCTOR GRENFELL'S LECTURE

Under the auspices of the College Church and the College Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose work among the Labrador fishermen has occasioned such widespread interest, spoke to a large audience, Monday evening, March 25, in the church.

Doctor Grenfell is an Oxford graduate, and for some time was a practicing physician among the poor of London. Always interested in the sea and in sailors, he began his missionary work by cruising with the fishermen of the North sea, from the Bay of Biscay to the coasts of Scotland, Norway, and Iceland. In the summer of 1892 he went to the banks of northeastern North America.

From this beginning, when he cruised in a small sailing vessel back and forth for eight hundred miles along an unmapped and unlighted coast, among a people shut off for eight months of the year from all communication with the rest of the world, his work has grown most wonderfully. His present hospital ship is a steel steamer. He has also established four hospitals along the coast, two hundred or more miles apart, each with its own staff and equipment, including a steamer; has founded schools, has started co-operative stores, which have been of the greatest advantage to the people in delivering them from the oppression of the trucking system; has built an orphan asylum, sawmills, and shops. All this has been done to make real to a helpless and hopeless people the truth and the reality of the Gospel message, to prove to them that it means help and hope.

Doctor Grenfell tells this wonderful story in such an unassuming and manly way that it is easy to understand that the possibility of his large accomplishment has depended in no small measure on his remarkable personality. The lecture was illustrated by fine colored views, nearly all made from photographs taken by Doctor Grenfell himself.