LABRADOR'S VASTNESS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 22

LABRADOR'S VASTNESS

Sir * Wilfred Grerif ell recalls, in ■ his "Forty' Years for Labrador,','.. the'fact that-wheri he first went to the* country no "one knew who ; owned'it, and its boundaries were; very vaguely- "defined —so much so that^the prayer of a,for-* vent preacher lauded, hirri. in-,'difficulty: "Thou knowest, O Lord, this great and needy laud, bounded on the east* by Hhe /North rAtlaritic; Ocean,'on:* the south by the mighty St. Lawrence Rivei*, on tho ■*» north by, the *. -frigid water pf HudsonVßay, and on the west,by—-—O*Lord, Thou;k.nowost." -Sir Wilfred Gi'enfellTbffers- this refutation' to those who .maintain that, Labt rad'or is a' land of -plenty -.—"■ At Holton on a certain Sunday morning the leader of* tho' church- _«_• vice's 7 ;;Cariie aboard the hospital^tekmer aricf, asked me, f(nri aßible., Some sacrilegious pigs,.driven to the verge of; starvation, had broken into the church.Snd .had actually * to»n up and eaten'the Bible! >' The doctor gave the .deputation the.,desired book., Brit'that was riot all'Ythey -.ranted. They, too, wer© nearly as., famished as the.. pigs.**.. They'';•* wanted 'to '■ .-know whether the .doctor thought^ it would be saprilegipu.Y_f. them ~to7ent the pigs. Sir "Wilfred-.Gren.ell gravely , assured thorn, :that h(7' • they, : might venture,."."., ',7'■'■ Y'77''.-'. . ' ''