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Following the La Shana embarrassment , Eugene Vaters
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Labrador as being a saner a rea of investment, and he empha -
sized the i dea of Labrador as a mission fiel d r i ght on t he
island's d oorstep. He i n f o r me d h i s Good Tid i ngs r eaders of
his r a t i ona l e for a c hange of missionary emphasis:
•• •God has put Labrador on our he a r t s . We never
fe l t the c all to labour i n I ndi a . .. . We merely
pled ged support of our Brother ( Le Shana J on the
field , a t t he s uggestion o f Bro. (G o A. J
Cha mb e r s .• •• This was discontinued through lack o f
fina nces during the he ight of the d epre s s i on .
But God has ca l l e d to Labrador . I f we know
anything of the spirit of God, we kno .... lie h a s
ca l led... long and loudly, using the lips o f others
in our Assemblies... in a ma nn e r He has no t spoken
on a ny other thing, except t h e near return o f t he
LORD JESUS . As one said. . . , " I t I s a wonder the
dear Lord did not l eave us altogether to ourselves.
He c alled Labrador, and we ha v e been sending anywhere
else but to the p lace He ca l l e d ".
We do not q r-udqe what has bee n done f or other
fields.. . • Nor would we desire to lose interest i n
the world-field . We desire to keep a p rayet-Eu I
i nterest in all true missionaries a nd keep i n t ouch
with their activities . .. . But we fee l clear that
f or t he time be ing our f i eld is LABRADOR . There is
no other a gency t h e r e p reaching the full Word as we
have i t . If Labrador is t o hear it must be through
us u n l es s the Lord sends from over our heads. Th is
i s our privilege and responsibil i ty . If we fall - ­
what? . . Let us d i.schat-qe our duty and ca l li};\g with
all the en ergy of ou r beings and resources.
wi th Vat e rs I d iscovery of Labrador as a fertile fi e l d for
missionary work , hi s e stimation of the Will iam Gi lletts knew
no bounds. He placed HilliPtrn " ( i ) n God's list o f H.ho 's Who ,,62
anc! compared him with David Livingstone . "Not in t he numbers
he wi ll contact or the prominence he wi ll attrac t from the
wor ld-view, II he was careful to point out , 'rbu t; in the qua l -
iti es which show t he mLas i ona r -y-e- vLe Lon , e ndu r-enoe , steadfast-