"In May (this is
1910), I graduated as a Bachelor of Divinity, was married, and in June set out
for Labrador on a honeymoon.
There we stayed
three summers, two winters. There our two older boys were born. There I would
still be if I had been a doctor instead of a preacher. When the plumbing work
was done, I became business manager for the mission. When the expert accountant,
Price, Waterhouse recommended that the business office be put in St. John’s
Newfoundland, rather than on the field, I lost interest in the business job,
even though they had been interested in me. I had been buying thousands of
dollars worth of supplies of all kinds, running a big schooner on several
voyages back and forth as her skipper and how I ever kept out of jail with my
accounts, I don’t quite know (or off the rocks with the schooner). It always
puzzled me to make up a set of books that would balance and no wonder Price,
Waterhouse wanted an accountant and not a preacher." --Jesse Halsey, from Down North, c1941
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