The Romance of the Early Days 39

by the Russells, Butchart, J. T. Ross, Miller,
Cameron, J. R. Motion, Hendry and Currie.
Sometimes they used small boats of their own,
sometimes they depended upon the natives for
transportation. During these years a goodly num-
ber of white people, settlers and fishermen mostly,
came into the district scattered along the coast.
These were ministered to along with the aborigines.
In 1920 work among the whites became more special-
ized. In August that year Mr. Motte, then a
student giving part time, now an ordained man
giving whole time, was appointed to develop a
mission along these new lines and remained in
charge up to the present time. Mr. Motte has now
a nice, new 36-foot gasoline launch called the
Broadcaster. Since his appointment, Mr. Motte
and his talented wife, by their wise and unselfish
ministries, have won an enviable place in the
esteem of those they serve. i

And so it came about, at the union of the
churches, that the Presbyterians contributed their
two boats to our Marine Mission and the Methodists
their three. With the missionaries and the boats
each Church brought that intangible, inestimable
contribution in prestige and tradition developed by
the devoted lives of heroic pioneers, and those who
so worthily succeeded them. And both Churches
were united in supreme loyalty and love to Him who
stilled the waves on the Sea of Galilee, the Pilot of
all little ships on the storm-tossed ocean of life,
Jesus of Nazareth, our Saviour and Lord.