JAMES RUNCIMAN.



APPENDIX B.

Mission to Deep Sea fishermen.

Instituted in August, 1881.

The Mission was designed, in humble dependence upon the blessing of Almighty God,—

1. To carry the Glad Tidings of God's Love, Mercy, and Salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ to the thousands of Fishermen employed in trawling and other modes of fishing in the North Sea and elsewhere, and in every possible way to promote and minister to their spiritual welfare.

2. To mitigate the hard lot, and improve the condition of the Fishermen, physically and mentally, by all practicable means, and meet many urgent needs for which, heretofore, there has been no provision, especially in supplying medicine and simple surgical appliances, books, mufflers, mittens, &c.

For the above purposes Medical Mission vessels are stationed with ten fishing fleets, and numerous Clerical and Lay Missionaries and Agents have visited the Smacksmen. It is, however, generally conceded that the time has arrived for effecting a large development of the Medical work. No fewer than 7,485 sick and injured fishermen received assistance during 1888 at the hands of the sixteen surgeons in the service of the Society, or from the Dispensaries in charge of the Mission Skippers, and the experience of this and previous years warrants the substitution in every fleet of a cruising Hospital, carrying a resident Surgeon, for the type of vessel hitherto in use.

The Queen Victoria, the Pioneer Hospital Ship, is now at work, while the Albert, a sister ship, is being constructed at a cost of L3,750; but it is of urgent importance that these should be efficiently maintained, and that other vessels should be provided for similar service.

To meet this need the full price [L3,750] of a third Hospital Ship, to be named the John Sidney Hall, has now been paid to the Mission, and L1,300 towards the cost of a fourth, to be named the Alice Fisher. A further sum of L2,450 is required upon this latter fund.

FORM OF BEQUEST.

"I give and bequeath to the Treasurer for the time being of the MISSION TO DEEP SEA FISHERMEN, whose offices are now at Bridge House, 181, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., for the general purposes of that Mission, the sum of——pounds [state in words]. And I declare that the said Legacy shall be paid free from Legacy Duty, and that the same, and the Legacy Duty thereon, shall be paid exclusively out of such part of my Personal Estate as may be lawfully bequeathed for charitable purposes, and in priority to all other payments thereout."

MISSION TO DEEP SEA FISHERMEN.

Patron. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

Founder. E.J. MATHER, ESQ.

Council. THOMAS B. MILLER, ESQ., Chairman and Treasurer. W.F.A. ARCHIBALD, Esq. R.M. BALLANTYNE, Esq. C. ARTHUR BARCLAY, Esq. Rev. W. ADDINGTON BATHURST, M.A. HENRY A. CAMPBELL, Esq. THOMAS GRAY, Esq., C.B., Chairman of Finance Committee. F.J.S. HOPWOOD, Esq. R. SCOTT MONCRIEFF, Esq. THOMAS ROBERTSON, Esq. Rev. JOSEPH E. ROGERS, M.A. A.T. SCHOFIELD, Esq., M.D. T. GILBART-SMITH, Esq., M.D., F.R.G.P. FREDERICK TREVES, Esq., M.A., F.R.C.S., &C., Chairman of Hospital Committee.

Hon. Naval Architect HENRY E. BROWN, ESQ., M.I.N.A.

Editor. G.A. HUTCHISON, ESQ.

Auditors. MESSRS. BEDDOW & SON.

Solicitors. JAMES CURTIS, ESQ. MESSRS. SEAGROVE & WOODS.

Bankers. LLOYDS BANK, Limited, 72, Lombard Street, E.C. MESSRS. GURNEYS & CO., Great Yarmouth.

Secretary. ALEXANDER GORDON, ESQ.

Offices. Bridge House, 181, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.

"I rejoice to know that this most important and blessed effort has already achieved such good results out on the stormy seas. It rests with us to contribute liberally to its maintenance."—The Archbishop of Dublin.

"The undertaking is a blessed one, and will be accepted by our Heavenly Father as an offering of true devotion."—The Bishop of London.

"I desire to express my most cordial sympathy with the active efforts of the Mission, and my earnest hope that the public will liberally support it."—The Bishop of Norwich.

"It does one's heart good to watch the benefit conferred by these Mission smacks. God bless them! They go forth in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ."—The Bishop of Exeter.

"I have myself heard smacksmen speak in most grateful terms of what the Mission has done for their class; and I recently heard one of the largest owners state publicly that his employes had become 'better servants, better men, better husbands and fathers, better in every way,' through the work carried on amongst them while at sea."—The Duke of Grafton, K.G.

"The only effectual attempt that has been made to counteract the work of the coper has been carried on through the agency of the Mission smacks. It is not, as a rule, easy to estimate how much or how little practical good is effected by missionary agencies, but here the case is clear. I gladly add my own testimony to that of others, and say that, at present, the Mission affords the only relief from the temptation and the only remedy to the evils of the copering system."—W. Burdett Coutts, Esq., M.P.

"I look upon the Mission vessel as a blessing to the trade of the port."—The Mayor of Great Grimsby.

"It is indeed an advantage for our fishermen at sea by means of these vessels to enjoy the same privileges as we ourselves do on shore."—The Mayor of Great Yarmouth.

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