# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1897_S30 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. Esquimau Dogs. Our picture is a good picture to look at in the hot summer time. It takes you to a far northern country where the Esquimaux live amid ice and snow. Two of them you see drawn on a sledge by Esqui- mau dogs. and have been known to make daily journeys of sixty miles for several days in succession. Captain Parry, in his well-known ‘‘Journal,”’ It might cool you off. | remarks, that ‘‘neither the dog nor his master | is half civilized or subdued.’’ The Esquimau | bears no love toward his dogs, and looks upon them as mere animated machines, formed for the purpose of conveying him and his prop- The Esquimau dog spends almost its entire | erty from one place to another. He is a most life in drawing sledges and carrying heavy loads, being the only beast of burden in the exacting and cruel master, feeding his dogs on the scantiest fare, and then inflicting severest northern parts of America and the neighboring |torture upon them if they break down in their islands. Some, indeed, are turned loose at the beginning of the summer to get their living as best as they can until winter summons them back again to scanty meals and neverending toil. But many of the Esquimau dogs are made to work the entire year, and these are the happy ones, for the work in the summer is not nearly so heavy as in the win- ter, and the food is much better. There is a wolfish look about £F- the dog, owing toitsobliqueeyes, ; bushy tail, and long nose. In its full face the Esquimau dog presents a ludicrously exact like- ness of its master’s countenance. The color is generally a deep dun, marked with dark bars and patches. When harnessed to the sledge, the dogs obey the movements of their leader, who is always a faithful and experienced old dog. There sre no means of guiding the animals in their way, for each dog is simply tied to the sledge by a leather strap, and directed by the voice and whip of the driver. The whip is of very great import- ance to the driver, for by the sounds which he brings from the lash, and by the ably directed strokes aimed at refractory dogs, he guides the team with- out the aid of bit or bridle. The old and experienced animal which leads them knows the master’s voice, and will dash forward, slacken speed, halt, or turn to right or left at command. The actual stroke of the whip is used as little as possible, for when a dog feels the sting of the biting lash, he turns and attacks the dog nearest him. The others immediately join in the fight, and the whole team is thrown into admirable confusion, the traces getting entangled with each other, and the sledge in all likelihood upset. When such a rupture occurs the driver is generally forced to dis- mount and to harness the dogs afresh. Usually the leading dog is allowed to run his own course, for he is able to follow the right path with marvelous accuracy, and to scent it out even when the thickly falling snowflakes have covered the ground with a white carpet on _ whose surface no trace of the path is to be seen. ” These dogs are able to travel very great dis- " tances over the snowclad regions of the north, steer a work from want of nourishment, or if, incited by the pangs of hunger, they obey their natural instincts, and make a meal on the provisions which had been Jaid aside for his own use. The poor beasts have been known, when suf- fering from long continued hunger, to devour their tough leather harness, and as if excited Esquimau Dogs. by this imperfect meal, to fly upon the weaker members of the team and tear them to pieces. In this fit of unrestrained fury they would make their masters the first victims, were they not driven back by swords and clubs. —+ eo Go Ye. After His resurrection Christ met His dis- ciples and said unto them: ‘‘Go ye and teach all nations.’’” And again He said: ‘‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.”’ This is the Master’s simple command: ‘‘Go ye.” He did not say, ‘‘If you think it will be a successful thing, go. If you think there will be such results as will justify your going, go. If it seems safe to you, go.”” Yet He understood all these matters better than we understand them. He simply said, ‘Go ye.’’? The results are in His hands, our duty is simply to obey the command, ‘'Go ye.”?.. “Ke Who were to go? Evidently not the eleven only. Evidently not the five hundred only that were present. This is clearly seen from the promise added to the command. Christ said, “Lo, Iam with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’’ The command is to be carried out unto the end of the world. As long as the world stands the command stands. It is given not only to those who first heard it, but to all in that age and in after ages who should be- lieve through their word. The ‘‘ye’”’ of the risen Saviour means every Christian. The duty to preach the Gospel to every creature rests upon the Church, upon each and all its members. Whenever a man, a woman, or a child enters the army of the Lord he is enrolled for a campaign that is worldwide and lifelong. Never, as long as the world stands, will the great Captain of our salvation recall the order, ‘Go ye into all the world,’ or release any Chris- tian from his personal obligation to obey it. The early Christians understood =>, this. They ‘went everywhere, preaching the Gospel.’’ “Go ye,”’ is the Master’s com- mand to-day. It is the command to each and to all. Every Chris- tian should make known the Gos- pel to those that know it not. He will find opportunity in his family, among his relatives, among his acquaintances. Not every Chris- tian can become a called mission- ary in the mission field, but every Christian must know that those who go to the front in this great campaign are our representatives. If we can not go, we are to sup- port those who go and devote their lives to mission work. They are doing our work as well as their own. They are toiling and suffer- ing in obeying a command which is given, not only to them, but the whole Church, to each of us, who belong to the Church. But alas! how feeble is the sympathy of those whose work they are doing! How meager the contributions to sustain them and to carry on the work which the Master commanded the Church todo! Is not greater liberality in regard to mission work one of the needs of the hour? May the great mercy of God which we enjoy through the Gospel of Christ move us to greater zeal in our mission work, + om 0 His Only Comfort. “I have taken much pains,’’ says a very learned man, ‘‘to know every thing that was worth knowing among men; but with all my readings, nothing now remains with me to comfort me, at the close of life, but this passage of St. Paul: ‘It is a faithful Saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners,’ to this I cleave and, herein I find rest.” ;