ARCTIC MISSION BISHOP

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1929, Page 15

ARCTIC MISSION BISHOP

Dr. Isaac O. Stringer, the Anglican Bishop oi! tho Yukon, known amongst his colleagues as the "Bishop of the North Pole," arrived in London recently to represent Canada at tho enthronement of Dr. Cosmo Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury says an English exchange. Dr. Stringer, a tall, well-built man with a sunny smile, is a striking example of that muscular Christianity which enables him to control a diocese extending over 200,000 square miles and stretching far north of tho Arctic Circle. Ho is accompanied by Mrs Stringer, who has travelled thousands' of miles in Arctic wastes which no other white woman has seen. During recent years she has been the bishop's constant companion, accompanying him on his long journeys by dog sleigh and on foot, sleeping in snow huts and tents in temperatures that seldom reach zero and are often 40 degrees below. Mrs. Stringer told the representative of a London newspaper that although she had frequently been 250 miles from the nearest white woman she had never, wanted to get back to civilisation. "On ono occasion an Eskimo girl dashed into my earth-walled house followed by her husband, who was chasing Uer with a murderous-looking knife. I went up to him and he stopped timidly. Afterwards ho told my husband that he was going, to kill the woman because sho refused to clean her daughter's boots! . "I have brought up a family of five children in the Arctic regions, and I simply love tho country. My daughter, who was born in the Arctic, is now a missionary in India.'