Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of Edward Feild, D.D., Bishop of Newfoundland, 1844-1876

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...three times that distance, in fighting against the headwind, and in the same time have not once seen till to-day, the shores of Newfoundland, along which we are coasting, in consequence of the fog. Now we are off the Bay of Islands, into which I would gladly enter, as there is no hope of reaching S. George's Bay to-day, to spend the Sunday. But while I am writing the fog has again come on, and there seems little hope of obtaining the rest and respite, and of affording to the poor people in that Bay the sight of a clergyman, which they have not had for four years, i.e. since I last visited them. You may ask, how could I think of passing them by? Alas! if you knew to how many destitute sheep and flocks this question would apply, 50 in one harbour, 100 or 150 in another, who never see a clergyman or minister except when I can visit them once in four or six years, you would know some of the grief and shame I feel in passing by--will you say, like the priest or Levite, on the other side? Within the last twenty-four hours I have passed three such settlements, I mean without priest or pastor (1) with forty-eight, (2) with seventy-seven, and the third (3) with thirteen, all professed members of our Church, who have never seen a clergyman in their settlements except when I have visited them. And I had not intended to call at the Bay of Islands, where reside 118 of my flock, if I had not been overtaken by this head-wind, which leaves me no hope of reaching my next proposed place of call by Sunday. I feel, I confess, very thankful (though the delay is and will be a sad hindrance and disappointment to others rather than myself), that my way has been so ordered for me, and with kind regards and a blessing to all your household, I remain, my dear Sir, Yours sincerely, ED...