The Lumberjack Sky Pilot

active in the logging camp work since 1902, when it first sent

. Both these men had been carrying on private work in the camps near their pastorates. Prior to 1907 the work was largely experimental and on a small scale, but in the su

nesota exclusively and presented only the part which came directly under the ha

d of men who are individually interested in this work. They are prominent

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aries at the disposal of all the lumber camps in the west, so that the general morals of t

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as been an interested worker in the camps for some years. He felt that God called him to t

gs to the work the practical experience of twelve yea

t all the money used to carry on the work in the past, except their own salaries, has been raised. Under their direction a numbe

n Michigan and Washington. In the State of Washington Mr. Higgins spent the

er possibilities. The desires of a few men have become the wishes and prayers of a greater number. The sub-commit

more extended, only one hundred camps are touched, while four hundred other camps are left en

mber districts where this mission work will find a welcom

ed with fir and on the eastern side blue and yellow pine predominate. Oregon is proud of its pine forests, the density of the woods is inviting to industry and solitude. The Douglas spruce has made this State a world-famous mart for masts

an almost equal stretch in Colorado. Missouri is also well wooded, in all except the northern and western parts, and the State of Arkansas has twenty-five million acres of timber wealth.

ained, there are the lumber camps and the lumberjacks. The surroundings of the men are much the same as in Minnesota, with the restraints of civi

enty years to come. In such States the camps are large, grouped and accessible therefore the mission work can be done with greater ease and economy than in the older States

e week and on Sunday perhaps preach in three different camps. He is the representative of spiritual truths to from six hundred to one thousand men. Where, at so little cost, are the possibilities of good so great? Where are these camp preachers to be obtained? "I believe that God will call to this work

ce the promotion of Mr. Higgins, is superintendent of the Minnesota work, was at one time a lumberjac

r himself when opposition is presented,-to this the ex-mayor of a lumber town can testify to his sorrow, as can others who saw the fallen political

. Will the Christian

ent to the Great Lakes, and these companies know the good accomplished here, hence a ready welcome is given to the missionary going to more western fields. The lumberjacks are naturally wanderers and in

ce two lumberjacks came up to me and said: 'Hello, Pilot, don't you know us? We're a couple of your Minnesota boys. Don't you remember preaching in the Clearwater Camps on '

it by my side. After the meeting he invited me to his home and wanted me to make it mine while I labored in that place. Su

aiting men are inviting the bearers of good tidings to enter-shall we

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