. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . journey to Crookstonewhere I was to speak that evening. On myway I passed a town that was withinseventy-five miles of the place I wished tovisit. Starting from Crookstone at 3 a. had seven hours riding to Winnepeg. At5 a. m. I saw five steam threshers at snowed heavily the day before and thestalks of wheat were in some cases train left Winnepeg fifteen minuteslate, the cause being three car loads oflumber jacks were going with jacks are not as some suppose akind of machine but men, dressed in thestyle of a regul
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . journey to Crookstonewhere I was to speak that evening. On myway I passed a town that was withinseventy-five miles of the place I wished tovisit. Starting from Crookstone at 3 a. had seven hours riding to Winnepeg. At5 a. m. I saw five steam threshers at snowed heavily the day before and thestalks of wheat were in some cases train left Winnepeg fifteen minuteslate, the cause being three car loads oflumber jacks were going with jacks are not as some suppose akind of machine but men, dressed in thestyle of a regular woodman, shoe packs,heavy flannel shirts, sombrero hats, besideswhich they wore a dare devil look. They TIMELY TRUTHS had liquor enough onboard to stock a saloon,all of which was drankby night, and then stillthirsty they emptied thewater tanks. It began tofeel like frontier workfor certain. I had lefthundreds of land seekersbehind; now we weregoing through newcountry. The snowI ame down again anddown the long vista ofthe forest road could be. seen a man with hoiand short sleigh calleda juniper. After travel-ing about two hundredmiles eastward I foundyour home missionary,a genuine pioneer andthe son of pioneers. Itwas dark now and wehad to step softly downa steep bank, slipperywith ice and snow andwere then paddled a< roRainy river in a Falls fur- FRONTIERS: OKLAHOMA, CHURCH DEDICATION NEW MEXICO, THE CHANGELESS FRONTIER IN THE FAR NORTH OF MICHIGAN 132 THE HOME MISSIONARY nished ^Here your home mis-sionary preaches in the largest saloon intown, kept by a man whose wife runs thetemperance hotel, where we stayed in whatCarlyle would call a sort of heaven andhell amalgamation Co. This field was ahundred miles of frontier, dense forests inmuch of it, his home some thirty or fortymiles from where he met me. The parson-age, a square log house, an excellent pictureof which may be found in the SeptemberHome Missionary of 1904, also the saloonchapel
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