Show r HF SKY PILOT T IO iT THE HI LUMBERJACKS it H a Missionary r y Must Mast mist Be e First Fers a Man an Afterward a a Preacher creamer Pr acher Higgins Has as a Congregation of o In iny inas Camps amps 1 I y m t il a 74 Air 4 c ly a I d 14 fit r i t t tu tj u j 7 iti I R l ti J F S C r 1 4 4 Y ti tit i rr r lJ 4 t 5 n y l J rl 1 4 r f x y T A 7 4 4 p Ir f l r it G u 17 tl rg 1 ts sr r r rr Cr At N I 1 Yh r 1 VB M r f mil y t M nw W f wi I f Q a t v fi 11 T Th rt Y p j Jr t J P r if I The Sky Pilot His Church and His Audience Aud e nc 4 r t 1 j tI Copyright 1910 by A A Richardson n I i I R JO rr I Jit tJ J H h t t i R f I ASTOR of the Parish of or the Pines Pin s is the mASTOR I Rev Franois JE E an nn evangel who wito ministers to the spiritual 1 cud and often the temporal wants of ot n a 1 congregation of and yet has no church He is the original of f Norman Duncans stories of tho the Northwest His followers roe ore lumberjacks and his hla parish comprises the vast timber lands land of the North Northwest Northwest Northwest west which he transverses with a n dog drawn sledge How Hov he ho preaches in the language of the woods and how ho practises muscular Christianity are arc told here mi 1111 b the be Sow Sol Sort TorI Herald Co OJ All 11 n It n ir FI I I were getting l rendy for far my work again n b w 11 said liil ht the tho He Francis FrancU H I g ins 1 l would lake Ink c lessons In boxing lie He smiled n a ng good od humored 9 from 11 n pair of oC J eyes Tho Thu Thoman matt man that goes Into the woods to In gas das to be he n a man first and anti n preacher afterward He lIc Is ItH jukl to t the tho keepers Ic pa he has put out of o business mid and the 1 he hc his hat awakened II to 10 0 their duty Jut out In III the lumbering I r towns of or the Great Lakes J tIes lint to 10 his hla parishioners the lime men nieu who cut the timber he be is the tho Pilot lie He l has baa no church Ills sermons are uie preached In lu the low dimly lighted bunk blink house of the camp with Its double tier of or It tilled filled fill bunks and Ind Its ito red hot stove stoe which hang hung the half dry tine and nud mittens of this the men mCD And with a blanket t covered barrel burrel for Ills pulpit the Pilot preaches In the tho lingo of Ills his Perhaps It Is tin tl story stor of the Prodigal Son Sou 1 NHe Hc got tired tiled of or living ut It home with the old man alma boys eo so he pocked packed his bis turkey and nud went w nt out to blow h hS ItiS stake Where did Il be lie laud hind You tou know lie He ended in inthe the th snake room And Aud there the old mn 11 found him and aud took him him home hoole and nn sobered him up i Committees Committee and public sentiment tare are con conserving conserving conserving serving the forest single Hingle Lauded banded elJ IB Is con cou conserving C serving the lumberjacks lip lie has no DO church hut but he has a 11 congregation of Scotch l r nell Canadian American they watt wall for Cor hint him The mis missionary travels nil all over Ocr the timber region of ol Minnesota with his bis team lenin of o dogs do Although b lug Ii Is a n man mun who weighs w l h more amore than two hundred pounds his beautiful team of dogs dog j carried tl him forty miles S to Little Fork ork In six elx and nn on one hours lIours When there Is 18 n a crust on the snow now ho he h can travel 1 anywhere in tho the open timber regardless of roads He lie II says Gays an S his bib hl team is worth to him r Sometimes ho he is caught out but at ul night and Is obliged to lo camp in the woods wood I He lie has haM a small tent and builds a II afire firo in hi tt ltd cuts bon hs boughs and flays a bed op oi 01 the snow and with u a dog og on ou each side of oC him he deeps Bleeps com comfortably 1 and an with a coupons lous security Flo tle feeds the tile dogs do s but once a n l day arat at night He generally Hou rall shoots shoo a rabbit or two during the day n Sometimes he be cooks cool a 11 apart apart part of oC one onu for himself and gives the dogs all nil they thoy can cat eat of ot the raw meat Higgins is the first preacher that has baR found his bin way wo to lo this tits forest where there Is 18 no person except excepting exceptIng r ing lag the Ute sturdy pioneer that la Is blitzing blazing the way WRY for ch civilization and progress 8 and the t meeting was held iu lu the cabin of ot the tho oldest pioneer a n man who has not had a sight of ot civilization f for more than thun ten years There Ibero were twenty homesteaders present p at the meet lug IllS and to their credit bo be it said paid that reverently they slit sat and quietly they listened listena to the first spiritual nines mes message sage His territory extends from Duluth miles west south to Brainerd and north to the thc RiVer er There are ar O camps camp in this tills region A lumber camp i has bas much the flame Dame fin me appearance as 31 a n avery ncr very cr small and rough looking village The foreman to Is la the arbiter of or almost life lite and fin death 1 ath and beyond his hili say gay so 8 there is no court of oC appeal anneal Tho Thu activities 6 of or the camp begin h In with the first t streak of ot dawn du when the cook begins to prepare pr pare the morning meal melli which consists c chiefly of boans porridge nod hot tea ten sweet ened with molasses After breakfast the time men mOD are arc assigned to their days work the hewers hewer often going three or four our miles mUe from the tho camp The teamsters get ready rendy to haul the first logs to the railroad or the river rIer Tho The teams are arc often composed comP of four to six horses to drag the tho monster logs logo o lashed l together heavy benD chains over ver the rough h places and up tip the tho d The men work until sundown Then n they the hasten hack to snip camp ump to prepare care for tor supper slipper the principal 1 sal meal f tit the It usually u consists cou of cs s ct ani of or i 0 f r r rh t h t t Y t ey Ir s ii I r w a a ti tl Sic jp fe i r ri ii i i ir f 1 4 J v vH H vi vii vit r 1 i r S t irom Camp to Camp Cam p Photo by tartar artar t biscuit sour dough doub bread brend boned boiled beef eer ol Oll sort soil of or game and all tea After Aft l supper supper the lue men Ulen souse amuse t themselves lh rus heg as its best they the can call some somo fall rail asleep other piny play curds cards or tell leU stories Since the missionary has hn hll entered the time Held the men also have hll books to 10 read reali When n the tho 1 dump camp cum breaks In the tho spring and the boss go to town lu In search of or their heir own ou ruin in ill the till guise of tho only pleasures they thc know they lher him w for them watching over thorn thom still Who thin that 1 asked a 11 stranger In hi one of or the tho old time saloons seeing him hint take lake a drunken boy by lJ the tha throat and carry earr him out bodily bo III replied r lle a man lu In spiked hoots boots nud w Ills Ilia Ill Jobs keeping leeping us HI boys bo out of M hulland hull hell mind and hoa bes the only man lUan on the tho job joh There Ls l 1 no emit cant or grand standing about his work worle Following his bis congregation con Into tho the haunts of or their temptations Ls ti simply a part pait of oC his duty ditty t ul ns as ho bo sees 6 S It And the tho men recognize It as such It does not occur to lo them that they are ar witnessing an mui application tion of bf 1 practical Christianity such as the tho modem world seldom sees see f p fOut Out of the Snake Rooms It Is easy cus to listen to the tale talc of or the good Samaritan if ir you rou see him exemplified before you In the person of the man mUll who Is telling the story And Amid ninny many a member of ot his hi hit congregations ahe the Pilot has bas will his own hands taken out of o the snake nalce room the filthy dens daus where they ther are ore thrown to snore and groan oan and shriek them themselves themselves selves R hack back to consciousness after tho the adulterated whiskey of The Home or 01 Jakes Ilace And If Ie during the thc process pro c of washing them up or nursing them bent through pneumonia the tho Pilot has rubbed It into thorn them It Is I his recognized right so to lo do He lIe lIehn has JIMS proved that ho lie means what he ho says 8 The friend who would save a man JIlin In places where thoy they give him doped take his winter winte w wages of ot OO In III n 11 night and nud cast emit hint him out In the thc morning without a u cent has hus need of or a n strong right arm aria and Dd time the Pilot does docs not hesitate to use uBe his hisA hisA 11 A young fellow named Pat Murray a likely lad asked me rue to look ook out for him JIm one spring he ho said but hed boon been In ha town a n whole day U before I hoard of oC It Then Than I found him JIm hi In Jake hurts Harts place ono of ot the worst JL t as us I came Iu lu the door ho put a double handful of or bills hilly down on the bar fore ter ler ho he stud ald set up the houme he men crowded crowded up for their the and the tho bar tl a fr w v blue Our olT iho pile lint limit I 1 ki w n aa na nat 1 f i t t self 1 I grew 1 W up on n frontier farm In to Canada Cnn n hunting with bow bor tw and tad arrow with the Indian In lun boys and rm workIng work working workIng ing In hi the tha woods with my father r I saved sated what little money I earned and when I was twenty went to To Toronto T Toronto r for my III lust first schooling Five I ive years later I 1 was through the High h School S and nn In III my mr first little church r out alit In iii Minn Inn t InnOne One day 1 I was standing on a log in the river ricer watching the tho th men breaking the tho th log lop Jam The logs were piled up liP foot feet high h and the tho men mell were working fight In ht the mime face of ot the Jam when hen suddenly they thoy got Ot the rho hey tu y log lop find and the Jam gave way Wt We all 1111 had to Jump jl for tor our lives lIe mid cud so the men found out who wh I WHile we w Were sitting on the time the bank watchIng watch log Ing In the thu logs go down all nil smooth and an quiet the b men m n asked me mo to preach to them and nud I 1 did Hoys BOsl I said tl youre on the round You work ork all Ill winter In lu the woods and mind come down clow In lu tho the spring and blow your money You go back on time the drive and blow your money stoney You 1011 go Into Inlo the mills and blow your money Then you go o back to the woods wood cud and blow your money mOlle What does It Il get you OU 1 Nothing but the tM snake room It goes to buy diamonds for other meni mens moil wives Jake wife wire says lys she can Oil have all nil she want Her husbands got sot a 11 thou thousand stud sand MU men work in t for or him hint in the tho woods She She meant yon yen on boys ho Aro ro you going to do It again alter after this drive You canU inn slop stop I know you JOu cant But Bul the thc grace of God Cod In ht your jour our hearts can help you vou ou to lO stop stoll and aud Its the only thing that lint inn can nn And Amid 11 1 then wo we prayed tumid sung sling Come out nut to the camp and amid talk to us Parson ono one of diem thoin Ihl wp we 1 wore were shaking hands 1 Nobody wastes wa tes much time talking to us usAnd And nd so I And I told tol them the Ule truth tt as M we nil knew know It I t have hate to 10 preach hell boll to haul They rhey know knew that t They d seen scon It In the tho nake rooms rOil In The rile lure love I of or Hod nOlt was harder el for or men always nl wn g lind hod to pay po for what they thoy got to lo understand But at last sumo of or them heal began 10 to see s c v whirl whal hat I J meant One Ono night Just jUl t as n 0 I was starting homo u It mall named darned John er came Caine to mo rile with tears t run running ping ning down clown his race face Willing to Go to Jail 41 III My I Cod Go he says sas If you know anything to help mo um tell me mo about It 11 We went to 10 an nn empty shack and andI all I f talked to lo him anti and prayed with him all night He H told use IMP Ill an nn awful story of a t I life of thievery and onel crime OlleI lit lie had hoeI hit hll a man with wll h a n jug and left him bin for fOI dead lt and amid spout spent a year nr In Iu hiding At the th end neI of that time Ito Ill found that the th titan man had got well veil so he lie went scent hack back lie Ito was wets u n dough puncher n a cook coole and an a g glJO grod od out Otto but such a n drunkard and amid thief that he keen krop lue a 1 Job joh He was a kind of tramp going from flom camp i n m rit Q l t rk tr t r sF Zw r L r l t iW mt r r 1 r mi cI r t fi f t II d W L n 4 1 c tl f fr Lr V t U J i m t tt t tN Ip r r f ir r r J f 1 l a I 46 Kh Jo NO NOfi I I I A 1 fi r t 1 ft f 1 7 tt 7 1 I I J Jb I J J c wo Ll b ire f W Vv f Il I Jr ri rr t Sd A i J l e it l m I o r t J 1 J U J Ie r 0 o 1 I t t 11 11 rJ r 1 7 J It f 1 dt f w It fi 1 ij t 4 t 5 r 1 y 4 Al g J r r I J JI A L j I 1 a r dl f v v iu f t K ll tr j I fr frT 1 I T t r i i h r y Y X f l h y l r fj I f rt r l I J I i t J J 14 L 1 I t t r I i lo N TM l r a IH rI W f i t tf u J tL tI J r 7 4 R 1 S J ft 1 1 j j A jliI r or i co cot r ti 4 rI J t I s 1 JJ rt f c r i t of 1 J t oI i it t ih J I J f i S t l 1 r ti t 1 1 t r 4 J j i t s i r Il M v oM i i t r ti I j Rev Francis B J Ht His J J gins and Dog Team 1 iI i i l I t Y Y Jt tF d 1 r 7 t r 4 it yI 4 k t t lr j G EI EIS r S 1 a K 4 soon soon us as Pats built buck was turned the tho whole pile lithe lile would go to Into halo the till t tI 11 My I turn lurn Pat I said putting my over oer It Ill take luke this i Look here herc IlIg said Raid time the barkeeper what wh t do you ou mean by br butting In this way say It 4 This is I my Job joh and Im run going to lo see 8 1 It through I Isaid said al lie He struck nt at mo me but reach me use so ho came over ocr the tho bar with Ii a But before ho he h I J caught him on the point of ot the Jaw W and an while be he was wali still stretched out on oti the loot 1 got Pat out of the tho place When he ho was on the train faun for tor Wisconsin I 1 sent bent a draft for Cor his money to lo his hi old mother It u used to lo be tc easier When they thoy the logged log e by U water the camps were far CIlI away uin from tho time towns and amid Lo ue boys were wore safe for tor the winter wit I They Thoy could only have huge havea a log IoS fall on them or get cut CUlin In two by b a u saw or some pome something thing like that all nil In the days work Hut But now they tha log by U rail wll and aud the about the up camps like leeches what they arc are leeches made up of or saloons and gambling hells hails and antl worse What hat do thoy the give ghe gh e a n hey boy worked from flom dark to dark durk six days clays s a week Nothing his money will wUl buy hll bad liquor a u crooked game and women that fettles have hu tired of or It only one pue big bl spree In the tho spring no Its Us a n little one every ever The boss Sunday ha to send sand n a wagon on Mon Monday fito to gather his mon man out of Cho rho snake rooms Not that nil fill woodsmen drink Some of the older ones arc are sober steady stead nion with families But ul the young fellows dont know kno n g oho else anything though they are aie quick enough to tako take It when It t conies comes thou way WIIlIe They Thoy lIe dont get et a n show t I know I no because I 1 hay hn hayr r in the tho woods my rum 3 1 r X dr He ITc went rent right on and began be nh to Finally Mike OLeary the blacksmith stepped up Ito to Him tool him by the shoulder and threw w him blot out ut of ho lie loot dool Im for the tho Pilot PHot Ill have ye e to 10 know ho he said and any allY damned pea soup that thinks I 1 cani canido cnn do It can step up right now So after that It war I 1 good wel sledding for meThe me meThe The IThe comp camp was always swept before I got there and an the boys knew what hymns they thoy wanted to sing Jesus 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