Transcriber's note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber.
CONTENTS
| I. | The Lumberjacks and the Lumberjack Sky Pilot. | 13 |
| II. | The Work at Barnum, Minnesota. | 33 |
| III. | In the Heart of the Logging District. | 51 |
| IV. | The Lumberjack in the Camps. | 71 |
| V. | A View of the Camp Services. | 95 |
| VI. | Itinerating in the Camps. | 123 |
| VII. | Work in the Lumber Towns. | 153 |
| VIII. | Muscular Christianity. | 183 |
| IX. | The Field and Its Possibilities. | 223 |
THE
LUMBERJACK
SKY PILOT
BY
THOMAS D. WHITTLES
CHICAGO
THE WINONA PUBLISHING COMPANY
1908
COPYRIGHT,
1908
The Winona Publishing Company
FOREWORD
The intent of this little volume is not toglorify a man, but to present the parish ofthe pines. Imagination has little part in itspages, for the incidents are actual happeningsand the descriptions are taken fromlife. The condition of the foresters isreally the theme, although the title drawsattention to the missionary. Because theRev. Frank E. Higgins has given himselfdevotedly to the men of forest and river, Ihave chosen his experiences as hooks onwhich to hang the pictures of pinery life.Mr. Higgins has labored with no thought offame, but with devotion to God and man;and so I write not to exalt the missionary,but to introduce you to his interesting parishioners.
I have written with love because I knowthe Sky Pilot. I have written with prayerfullonging because I know the lumberjacks.If through my unskilled effort you becomeinterested in the isolated, wayward woodsmen,I shall be fully repaid.
March, 1908.
T. D. W.
But nowhere is there prodigal among those careless Jacks