Missionary Knight

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7847, 8 July 1911, Page 11

Missionary Knight

I Rev. E . W. T. Greenshield* s Work I j , Among Eskimos. j MOST popular among the speakers at the May meetings in London was the Rev. E. \V. T. Greenshicid, upon whom recently the Queen of the Netherlands conferred tho Order of Orange Nassau for his bravery in rescuing a Dutch crew wrecked off tho wild coast of Baffin Laud. "My parish is as big as five times tho size of Great Britain,” said Mr Greenshield, talking of his work. ‘T always wanted to be a missionary among the Eskimos, and I shall soon be eager to return to my work. Christianity is bring-ng now civilisation to the Eskimos, ana it is time, for the habits and traditions of the Eskimos have been centuries behind those of tho English-speaking race. Again and again I have found cases where dying Eskimos were thrust out into tho snow to die. When a man is dying his friends begin a terrible wail, in which even tho dogs join. Once a man was dying, and his w.fe.toro oh nearly ail her clothes, and would have soon been sent to die in the snow if wo had not rescued her and taken her to tno mission-house.” Mr Greenshieid mentioned with fervid admiration Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, G.M.G., and his fine, work in Labrador. "I am afraid I am rather a Jonah,” said Mr Grechehield, "for I have been on three ships which have been wrecked. When X went to arrange for my return the other day a friend shook his fist in my face and said he wondered i tho cashier of the Church Missionary Society could face the risk! On one occasion, when our ship crashed into ice, we were unable to get European food for many weeks, and one had to make the best of Eskimo fare. A bishop who worked among the Eskimos once said there was no hand-grip which equalled in warmth the grip -of these men in tho Arctic when they loved you. And X can say the same —they are so warm-hearted.

"The cold is intense, sometimes 70deg. below zero, yet I have never known the Eskimo dogs suffer from this cold. Though my face has been frozen more than once, one's health does not suffer necessarily.” Mr Greenshieid went to the assistance of a ship in distress, and was able, with the gallant help of Eskimos, to rescue the crow. The Queen of Holland, in addition to honouring the missionary,gave a substantial sum to be divided among the Eskimo rescuers.

SCHEIDE-UND-FUEGEWERK-STATT NOTES A new terror, according ~to the."Npnvelliste d'Alsace Lorraine,” is to.be invented for foreigners . by the German Speech League. This patriotic body Tis endeavouring to persuade the German; chemist and doctor to have donO.'with his; Latin labels aiid use .honest German instead.' Thus, a chemist is henceforth to be known as the Scheide-und-Fueg©; uunstler. Atoms and •molecules are .to; parade as Kie-nchen and Kleincneagruppe, and 'oxygen and nitrogen as Versauerstoffon and Verstickstoffen,while tho laboratory is to be known as - th''' ocheide-und-Fuegewerkstutt, The patriotic German doctor- ~ will -carry, not a 'spectroscope, but a Brechlicht-im: en-. iohr; but when we come to the process •OLown as bruclistuckweiso fluasigo ■ V er- ■ aampfungsstoffauisuugiLng .in verschieaentn Warmestokken we admit that v are stumped.

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