Word: missions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...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 hospitals, co-operative stores, and orphanages...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell A.M., LL.D., M.D., C.M.G. is at present Superintendent of the Labrador branch of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. On account of his heroic missionary work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador he was made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George by the late King Edward...
...England in 1865 and received his education at Marlborough and Oxford, and later under the famous Sir. Frederick Treves at the London Hospital. He fitted out the first hospital ship for the North Sea fishermen and cruised for several years about Iceland establishing homes for fishermen and fitting out mission vessels. In 1892 he came to Labrador where he built four hospitals, a system of co-operative stores, an orphanage, and in many other ways alleviated the suffering among the fishermen...
Suitable trains leave Boston Saturday at 3, 6, and 6.03 P. M.; Sunday at 8, 10.30 and 12 A. M.; returning leave Andover Saturday at 10.23 P. M.; Sunday at 6.08 P. M. The opening headquarters of the conference will be in South Church. Everyone interested in mission work is cordially invited to attend...