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Yarns the Missionaries Tell 41

AROUND THE QUEEN CHARLOTTES—ON
THE THOMAS CROSBY

BYR C2 Scorn

In Scattered Settlements. Here and there along
the coast, in delightful little coves and_ bays,
are to be found groups of settlers who live partly
from the tilling of small cleared sections of land,
and partly by money received from work in mine
or forest or fishing station. To these the Marine
workers bring the gospel regularly by preaching,
services varying in time from once a week to once a
month, and at some points even less frequently.
Services are held in the homes of the people, in the
bunkhouse or cookhouse of the camps, in canneries,
on wharves, or wherever the people may be gathered
together. Some of those services recur to me.
Here is the description of one:

I had arrived in a camp after a walk of two miles
back through the woods from the water front. It
was the night before a strike. Notwithstanding, I
felt that the chance might never be mine again so
that I should endeavour to have a meeting. Per-
mission was secured from the foreman to hold a
meeting in the reading-room of the camp. This was
a long narrow bunkhouse with two large tables of
some twelve feet long in one end, a stove in the
centre, and a smaller table in the other end of the |
building, while benches were standing round the
walls of the room. There was not much evidence of
reading material in the room when the missionary