Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
Bishop and Mrs. Stuntz to Start This Week
on Their Mission to Both China and India

try his skill in a few police Cot
cases.
Before he had developed qlite the
legal acumen OF a Marshall there came
to the young man an irresistible i'm
pulse that he ought to become
preacher. and he went away to Chi
cago, graduating in the class of 1884
from the theological school.
Returning to Iowa, he built the
foundation for his career as a min
ister of the gospel by serving one of
those old country circuits, which Lave
tried the faith of so ,many ..Jdern
prophets. He had the foresight about
this time to marry the woman who
has had a very large part in his Qife
since, who was Miss Estelle lark OF
Dubuque. Ia.
In 1887 the young minister and his
wife went to India as missionaries
Their work was among the Eurasians,
to whom William Taylor had come
few years before, as flaming evan
gel, winning tens OF thousands TO the
Christian faith.
These Eurasians were of mixed
blood, largely white. Two or three
hundred thousand of them were in
India. and we're neither Christian nor
Buddhist. They had no moral stand
ards and were among the lowest #
humankind.
There were four years of ministry
to these people, combined with the
editorship of the Bombay Guardian.
and later the Indian Witness. During
this period daughter was b, g., now
Mrs. Harry P. Hunter, Of Omaha.
PARKWAY Lake Dream Comes Tru-.
Eye failure led to the transfer OF
Mr.. Stuntz to Naini Tai, in the Lii
country, for teaching and pastoral
work in one of the summer capitals OF
India.
1t was here that the dream of a far
away lake came true. Tai is the word
for lake in the Hindu language, and
the parsonage of the. young mission
ary was located on the side of a
mountain a hundred feet above a gem
Of purest ray serene that nestled in
the bowl of the hills, Its crystal depths
fed from the eternal SHOWS just above.
The bishop told of catching lake
trout 81 inches long, Yom know a
bishop can get by with story of
trout that size. He explained, how
ever, that lake trout grow bigger than
brook trout. Just how big the fish
were which got away he did not
state. =
1t was of these summer capitals in
the hills. in which all the splendor of
India, and an English society sec
ond only to that of London. scintll-
lates during the three months when
the plains are simmering under tenn
peratures of 40 to l25, that Kipling
wrote his Plain Tales of the Hills.
They were real stories of real people,
and Bishop Stuntz states that Kipling
did more with these stories to reno
vate moral conditions in the summer
capitals than a dozen missionaries
could have done.
Bishop Knew Haig in India.
At Naini Tai, when young Stuntz
was there, there was uaSnlng young
captain, hard working military man,
Captain Haig. This captain has lately
become known as Sir Douglas Haig,
field marshal of the armies Of Britain
in France.
For four years Mr.. Stuntz was
pastor of big church, teacher in
school, chaplain of the British troops,
and for one of the years superintend-
ent Of district $50 miles long. In
four years, he suffered breakdown,
strange to say, and was sent back,
over his protest, to America.
There was year for recuperation,
two pastorates in Iowa. and then five
years in the. Philippines. organizing
mission work there. Forced back
again to America by sickpess, after