Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28

a night and day have Deen IN TIC
deep;
20. In journeyings often, in perils OF
waters in perils of robbers, in perlis py
mine own countrymen. in peris py tne
heather. in perils in the city, In perhs IN
the wilderness in perfls In the sea- IN
perils among false brethren; =.
81 In WEAKNESS and painfulness, IN
watchings often, in hunger and thirst, In
%. Beside those things that are without.
that which cometh upon me daily, the care
of all the churches
20 Who Is weak, and / am not weak?
Who Is offended and I burn not?
SO. If l must needs glory, will glory
of the things which concern mine infirmi-
ties.
The Lesson.
Allen Gardiner seems to have been born
a missionary and to have known from the
first like Jesus Christ, that he must BE
about his Fathers business" for when a
mere child they found him sleeping upon
the floor because he said he expected to
travel all over the world and he must pre-
pare for hardships. What could Satan do
with dauntless spirit like this? 1t seems
as II Gcd must have said about him, as
about Jon; Hast thou considered my
servant Allen Gardiner" and Satan must
have gone about to try him as he tried
JOB. Certainly no missionary had more
rebuffs. more discouraGements. more per
lis Dy the neathe3, IN The sea ana
among false Brethren than he.
He was born in England in 1894. Be-
cause he loved adventure he first went to
a naval college and then entered the navy.
He had been brought up by Christian par
ents. and when landed for a brief time in
China he entered a heather temple out Of
curiosity his early teaching asserted itself
and he broke out in Indignation against
the idolatrous Worship. Al once he be-
came anxious for the salvation of his fell
and hogan IN rv fO hrin
TO Christ. and whereve! their vessel landed
NJ got leave of absence and familiariZed
himself with the needs of the natives.
But ii was beside his beloved young wife's
cofiin thar he finally gave himself up to
God to become ''the pioneer of a Christian
mission 10 the most abandoned heathen.''
He went TO South Africa, where he gain
ed great Influence among the Zulus who
made him governor of what is now Natal
but In three years he was driven out by
the cruel war that was waged between
Chief Dingaan and the Dutch farmers
lie mad married a second time, and his
wife ana children went en- long. dangerous
voyages with him and sympathiZed with
him In all he did, delighting in these voy-
ages. He tried for a whole year to gain
entrance into New Guinea, but without
success For ten months he stayed on the
Falkland Islands. visiting Patagonia He
tried his best to get the church missionary
society TO start q mission In Patagonia
and after great effort. in 1914, he formed
ZIG atdsotlldH MISSIONARY society and he
ana Robert Hunter soon went there but
were compelled to withdraw by a wicked
chlef, VINO stole their possessions as they
were going on board their ship.
He went to Bolivia, but he was driven
away, and he turned to South America
He dared the Atacama desert and went to
boiiVia and later, in spite of the hopeless
hostility OF the natives who were led by
Cmef Jenny Button, a native who had
once been taken to England and whom
Capt. Gardiner had hoped to be able to
Fuego.
The Patagonian Missionary Society was
discouraged. but a wealthy lady of England
mad given $4,000 for another expedition and
Gardner fitted out two two-decker steam
boats and decided to start his mission
afoat, as the natives would not allow them
to stay on land. And so he opened the
door TO South America Winds and SHOWS
and hurricanes beset them, they discovered
that all their powder and shot had been
taken back to England by the return shin
so that they had no means of defense or
of procuring game for food. One of their
large boats was destroyed by a gale an
other heavy storm took an anchor and
several smaller boats. They buried seve-
raj bottles with wooden signs fastened up
Look Beneath" Each bottle contained a
paper: I'VE are gone to Spaniard Harbor
We have sickness on board; our supplies
are nearly out, and if not soon relieved
we shall be starved. They also painted
find us in Spaniard Harbor.''
Here more terrible storms beset them. 1t
would indeed seem If the prince of the
power of the air was doing his worst with
this child of God. They lived on mussels
Hmpets and sea fowls. Their nets were car
ried away by ice foes they We're almost
drowned, and one by one they died Gard
liner being probably the last to die His
journal was preserved as by a miracle Yet
near the place where they found Gardeners
dead body was written upon TIE rocks:
MY SOUL wait thou only upon God; for
my expectation is from Him." and he wrote
in his diary on his birthday in June while
the snow of the South American winter lay
around: Should we even languish and die
here | beseech Thee to raise up others and
send forth laborers into this harvest" His
last written words were: Marvellous low
ing kindness to me sinner" Joseph Err
win, his boat carpenter, said of him: Be
ing with him was like a heaven upon earth;
he was such man of prayer"
Twenty days after he died the relief ship
arrived.
But Gardeners prayer was answered In
a missionary schooner, set sail for his
chosen mission. In six years more Cap
tain GARDENERS only son joined the mission,
going afterward to Chile. where he worked
among the Indians whom his father had
vainly tried TO reach and his son in turn
went later as a medical missionary to the
same place. The work there has gone on ever
since Like John Eliot, Allen Gardiner be-
came the sacrifice that stirred the hearts
and opened the doors of new land to
the gospel of the kingdom. Darwin in
visiting Patagonia had thought the Fue-
CLANS human monkeys, but years later when
he heard from Admiral Sullivan how they
were changed, how they showed kindness
TO the shipwrecked crews and how even the
hen houses could be left unlocked without