Scotia Conference. Bond was invited back to St. John's in 1916 by the congregation of Cochrane Street Church and served there for five years, during which time he served a third term as President of the Newfoundland Conference in 1919. Before Bond left Cochrane Street in 1921, he attended the worldwide Ecumenical Conference in London, England, as a representative from Newfoundland. In addition to his clerical work, Bond was an accomplished writer of fiction. In 1887, he published a novel, Skipper George Netman, the story of Newfoundland fishermen and their lives in the fictional outport of Caplin Bight. He wrote a short story, The Castaway of Fish Rock plus other stories of non-fiction essays on the Church's missionary work. Bond's oldest son, Herbert, was chosen as Newfoundland's second Rhodes Scholar in 1905. He was drowned on a surveying expedition in British Columbia in 1910. References Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador for set or for Vol. 1 External links History of Cochrane Street Church 1850 births 1933 deaths Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people Canadian Methodist ministers Canadian Methodist missionaries Methodist missionaries in China Methodist missionaries in India Methodist missionaries in Sichuan Canadian male novelists Editors of Christian publications Methodist writers Methodist missionaries in Japan 19th-century Canadian novelists