d a creche for babies. Miss Storr was obliged to
leave us, and now for over six years a splendid and unselfish English
lady, Miss Katie Spalding, has been helping to solve this most
important of all problems--the preparation of the next generation to
make their land and the world a more fit place in which to live. Miss
Spalding's contribution to this country has lain not only in her
influence on the children and her unceasing care of them, but she has
given her counsel and assistance in other problems of the Mission,
where also her judgment, experience, and wisdom have proven
invaluable.

[Illustration: INSIDE THE ORPHANAGE]

There is yet another side of the orphanage problem. We have been
obliged, due to the lack of any boarding-school, to accept bright
children from isolated homes so as to give them a chance in life. It
has been the truest of love messages to several. The children always
repay, whether the parents pay anything or not; and as so much of the
care of them is volunteer, and friends have assumed the expenses of a
number of the children, the budget has never been unduly heavy. They
do all their own work, and thanks to the inestimably valuable help of
the Needlework Guild of America through its Labrador branch, the
clothing item has been made possible. In summer we use neither boots
nor stockings for the children unless absolutely necessary. Our
harbour people still look on that practice askance; but ours are the
healthiest lot of children on the coast, and their brown bare legs and
tough, well-shaped feet are a great asset to their resistance to
tuberculosis, their arch-enemy, and no small addition to the
attraction of their merry faces and hatless heads.

Even though Gabriel, Prince Pomiuk, never lived within its walls, the
real beginning of the idea of our Children's Home was due to him; and
one feels sure that his spirit loves to visit the other little ones
who claim this lonely coast as their homeland also.

The one test for surgery which we allow in these days is its "end
results." Patients must not be advertised as cured till they have
survived the treatment many years. Surely that is man's as well as
God's test. Certainly it is the gauge of the outlay in child life.
What is the good of it all? Does it pay? In the gift of increasing joy
to us, in its obvious humanity and in its continuous inspiration, it
certainly does make the work of life here in every branch the better.

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