Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 7, 1911, Page 11

“LUMBERJACKS YEARN FORGOSPEL!” Sky Pilot of Woods Tells of Perils Experienced and Victories He Has Won. PLANS ON TRIP TO EUROPE Explains How He First Began Cru- sade Which Has Now Become Life Work. (Continued from yesterday. desire on the part of the men and the companies that there is an open ‘From among those who are convert- ed.” 1 dropped the paper, door and a welcome on every hand. saying, “Only once in these fifteen years has a company refused me admittance into its camps; and I feel today that if that company had the truth it would never have closed its known doors to me, “For the first seven years 1 was visiting camps in Minnesota. I had charge of the Duluth Presbytery and luring that time was fitting myself for ordination, as it was not my orivilege to graduate from any col- lege or theological seminary. Each year my acquaintance grew among | the men of the forest; for a hundred men you reach in a camp one winter may be scattered over fifty camps the winter following; so each year invi- tations from new camps increased. “I soon found I had either to give up the work now commenced in the camps or give up my missionary work HIGGINS ;where could 1 get the men willing to take up the work? And if I got | men, they must be the right kind of men. More than once the work wac started by men who were aot fitted {fer it. Some hearing about what ! wis doing were anxious to cngage in the work, but when thev found that they must travel day after day, be in camp every night, making two or three camps on Sunday. sleeping ;iu a bunk or under the canopy of | heaven, they soon wearied and sought work in the towns. But God, in a | marvelous way, showed me how this | problem could be solved. i “One day, while in camp, 1 was reading for pass time, when 1.came across an article telling how General | Booth, in addresing an audience in } his the | London, years ago, describing plans for the organization of .. /army in every country and in every {city and town, was interrupted by | the question, ‘Where will you get the | workers?” In a flash, he answered: | | ! From among those who are convert- ed. ‘It is a vision; 1 see it. I dropped the paper, saying, It God can { raise up such splendid workers from }the gutter, for the salvation army, why can’'t men be raised up in the | camps to do this work?" And thank | God, they have. “During this past winter, four of | the best workers we have are con- And I believe |the time is not far distant when | | many such men will be raised up | vented lumberjacks. | not only for the camps, but for the frontier towns and waste places. “The year just closed, we have fhad nine missionaries in Minnesota one in Montana, one in Washington |and one in California. | “In the far west we are just or- ]‘ganizing the work. In Minnesota | we have reached over ten thousand men with regular gospel services, distributed over five tons of reading = T isick. The Roman Catholic church |there is work for the entire year, | has its splendid system of hospuals;Manv small towns are springinz un all through the Ilumber districts.|that will later be permanent vil-| Shame on the Protestant church, |lages and cities. At these places wei that this has been left almost en-|must organize Sunday schools and | tirely to the Catholic church. | churches, laying foundations for the[ “When the workers are in towns, | future generations. Let us pray and they go to these hospitals, doinglbelieve that the church will rise what little they can for those injmore nobly than ever to this greati need. | “Our plan for the future of the work is as follows: | work.” Rev. Higgins will within the next ‘I year cross the ocean and speak in “Pat a missionary over a circuitl London and other foreign cities. of say from twelve to twenty of these camps as the number may be con-‘ veniently located. The missiona.ry‘ MERCHANDISE REPORT. can travel among these camps con-. A $1.00 waist number with coloud; tinually, doing the aforementioned | embroidery on white is the best style| work. Our past experience has| we have seen this season. These waists| proven that $20, with what the men sike: 16 eamp “will sompist” Sud o”‘lnve |-ow collors and 3-4 sleeves and those missionaries for the wim.er!"'e"e"lg shown b’ Crane & Co. f"; months, but now in many placesisn“flhy selling. ! . HIS idea K JOHN G. ZIEGL.LER Fire=- Life—=-I N’rs"'iffi'f&’fic E==Accident REAL ESTATE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES FARM LANDS BOUCHT AND SOLD Co to Him for Farm Loans Office--Odd Fellows Building $0 50 WALK RITE AND MEN '$3 Shoes and Oxfords _Are made of clean new leather in all the best new styles and sold to you direct from the factory at wholesale prices. You save $1.00 on every pair. Positively the best valuesto be had anywhere. A strong statement which we invite you toput to the severest test. PALACE CLOTHINC HOUSE 216 Minnesota Ave. Bemidji, Minn. of real service to the pub- lic is one which we’re steadily culti- vating in our business; notsimply selling merchandise; notsimply “waiting on you” as the pastor of a church. As soon|matter, magazines and church pa- as I received my ordination, 1 turued'pers. besides being much help to the my attention to the field of working | unfortunates. among the men in the forests. But town it is the duty of the mission- While they are in as soon as [ did this I realized how | aries to round up these poor fellows little one man could do in such a|and put them to bed, in many cases | vast field, for already invitations| nursing them were coming to me from the Pacific coast, where many of the men whose acquaintance [ had made had gone. i “I saw that I must have help: and this meant more men and more means. If I could get the means, through their de- | bauches, many of them being on the ‘\-«argv of delirium tremens, helping them back to the camps. "Another department of the work is visiting the various hospitals where these men are taken while [ = e EPALACE SURPLUS PUREHAS?' SUIT ues---our mission and sell at less possibly do; but most sensational real suit value. 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