Excerpt from The Measure of a Man: A Tale of the Big Woods
When some years ago the author published "Doctor Luke of The Labrador," it was mistakenly inferred by many thousands of readers that the tale was a literal description of the life of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell; and a great confusion resulted. It is hoped that the reader will not confuse the hero of "The Measure of a Man" with the Rev. Francis E. Higgins of Minnesota. Mr. Higgins is a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions - a very real man, doing a real and admirable work for his Church in the woods of the Northwest. Although some of the incidents of this story are taken directly from his experience, and many others are founded upon certain passages in his missionary career, it must not be inferred that the man himself bears any invidious resemblance to John Fairmeadow. It must be added that the story is not a tale of the lumbering industry but of a singular man at work among lumber-jacks.
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