With plenty of work to the fore, as a hospital
interne, the ruling spirit still asserted itself, and the young
doctor became an inspiration among the waifs of the teeming city; he
was one of the founders of the great Lads' Brigades which have done
much good, and fostered more, in the example that they have set for
allied activities. Nor were the needs of his own bodily machine
neglected; football, rowing, and the tennis court kept him in
condition, and his athletics served to strengthen his appeals to the
London boys whom he enrolled in the brigades. He founded the
inter-hospital rowing club at Putney and rowed in the first
inter-hospital race; he played on the Varsity football team, and won
the "throwing the hammer" at the sports.
A couple of terms at Queen's College, Oxford, followed the London
experience, but here the conditions were too easy and luxurious for
one who, by both inheritance and training, had within him the
incentive to the strenuous life. Need called, misery appealed, the
message of life, of hope, and of salvation awaited, and the young
doctor turned from Oxford to the medical mission work in which his
record stands among the foremost for its effectiveness and for the
spirituality of its purpose.
Seeking some way in which he could satisfy his medical aspirations, as
well as his desire for adventure and for definite Christian work, he
appealed to Sir Frederick Treves, a member of the Council of the Royal
National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, who suggested his joining the
staff of the mission and establishing a medical mission to the
fishermen of the North Sea.
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