The sun., 1919-01-19
By GEORGE GORDON.

but TO admire the hght-red. gold, silver
AMI purplc-that filters through the north
window across the altar cloths Of broid-
cred silk, TO search ont the grave of
CGur de Lion or read the inscription
above the bones OF Marie de Medici, 10 lis
ten to the singing of the choir or hear my
Lord Archbishop preach in the VEN OF
EcctcSidsteS.
! went the other day at Mantoloking,
y. j., and heard the Reverend \. Il.
Yoare tell of his work among the Eskimos
of northern Alaska. His nilsson is at Point
Hope, within the Arctic Circle. There
the ground, even in the long summer day,
never thaws out for more than three or
four inches and is for a depth of ten or
fifteen feet nothing but moss and ice His
neares: white neighbor, a beachcOmber left
behind some thirty years ago by visit
ing whaler and now married to an Es-
kimo woman. lives 500 miles away across
the snow. Mr. Hoare's dearest fricrd in
that dcsolate country is IIewellyn set
fer, the mother of ten Of the woohest pup
pies, half setter and half malamute
When Mr. Hoare arrived at Tiyara
twenty years ago the death rate was three
TO one as compared with the birth rate.
Like so many of Christ's devoted follow
crs he is physician TO both body and soul.
To-day the birth rate is five times as large
as The death rate. In ancient times when
you died in Tigara they placed your fro
zen corpse upon four whale bones stuck
upright in the ground and the always raw
cnous dogs gathered round waiting Tor The
careless winds TO toss you to them as
change from the everlasting blubber. In
The first grave dug at Point Hope Mr..
Hoare buried upward Of 1900 skulls
picked up within radius of few hun
dred Yards Of where the mission house
Low stands.
But though be has been teacher, doctor,
carpenter friend and dispenser Of food
10 the Innuit, his greatest good was in
bringing them word of Jesus-for their
only god had been an evil spirit against
whose power it was useless to rebel, whose
cruelty knew no bounds, who was slowly
driving them from the face of the earth.
The religion of Jesus is the religion of
love- That the force which brought them
into The world would war on their side
against the devils of destruction had never
occurred 70 the Eskimo. They were re-
signed to the tyranny Of death. But when
they saw that Mr.. Hoare was unafraid,
that he did not surrender before the threat
of an all-powerful nature, they took heart
lie has taught them to believe in the in
vincible qualities of high and inspired
faith and he introduced the first songs
into their country. There had been but
grooming of lullabies, wailng of misery
before bis coming. Love means iov
and the aptest and most natural
expression of joy is song. They sing the
alphabet and hymns are painstakingly
Taught in the canoes that search the Arctic
Ocean for seal.
Now the Christian religion fails TO
satisfy me intellectually; yet what am I
10 think of that spiritual force which can
urge a man Ike Mr.. Hoare, descended
from long line of English county gen
fry, to renounce the comforts and delights
Of civilization and dedicate IS life TO the
service of less fortunate )eoplesf And
he has had but very little hep from the
citizens of America whose duty and busi-
ness it is 10 look after the Eskimos. We
sent our whalers and fur traders up there
30 dehaueh them with whiskey that we
might procure fox and beaver and waIrus
IVORY at small cost. Mr.. Hoare faces the
long winter night alone that they may be
saved from utter destruction. A shamcd
silence Is 10 fitting answer to his need
We should give some part of our thought
80 helping him, for he moves in tie van
guard Of our civilization.
And books are help. ! have discov-
cred exactly the book for the Eskimo. I-ou