The conquest of the continent . but whose hearts are frequently sosoft, and whose friendship is so steadfast; and 182 The Conquest of the Continent moving among them all—ministering to themwith what toil and pain, under what discour-agement and difficulty—the brave nurses andfaithful clergy (alas, how pitiful a handful!)and our heroic, hard-pressed bishop! So does Alaska by its sheer power to inspireand enlist the Church for missionary enter-prise repay a hundred-fold that which has beengiven her. This is a fitting place to close our surveyof the Churchs progress on this continent—here in the
The conquest of the continent . but whose hearts are frequently sosoft, and whose friendship is so steadfast; and 182 The Conquest of the Continent moving among them all—ministering to themwith what toil and pain, under what discour-agement and difficulty—the brave nurses andfaithful clergy (alas, how pitiful a handful!)and our heroic, hard-pressed bishop! So does Alaska by its sheer power to inspireand enlist the Church for missionary enter-prise repay a hundred-fold that which has beengiven her. This is a fitting place to close our surveyof the Churchs progress on this continent—here in the far North, where she is proving herpower to minister to the manifold needs ofmankind, and where she seems to have reachedthe very limit of the world. On every sidestretches the utmost sea which marks theboundary of our continent, yet to her it is nota barrier but a highway. And she girds her-self for yet other conflicts as she looks steadilywestward where, beyond the sea, lies Asia—native land of the Conquering Bishop Rowe, Preaching on the Banks of the Yukon & m PS ^1 ^2L^...^-. 1 /i»i«e C. FartliiiiQ—Btincd on the Battlcficid A LAST WORD WE have come a long journey, followingthe Church in her endeavor to conquerthe continent for her Master. Not al-ways was she instant in action, not always vic-torious in her campaigns; but at least we mayfeel that she has not been altogether forgetfulof her mission, and may be stimulated to aidher to a more adequate fulfilment. Never so widely as now has the path of con-quest opened before the Church. For no otherChristian body in this land does the promise ofthe future seem more bright. The contributionwhich we may bring to the solution of the re-ligious problem in the nation will be uniqueand valuable—if we ourselves understand it. This is the greatest lesson of the precedingpages. The impulses which sent the Churchforward came from a source deeper than sheherself clearly understood. When her acts werealigned with the
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