p. 11 | EGERTON R. YOUNG, D.D by D. Berger, D.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1896

EGERTON R. YOUNG, D.D.

By D. Berger, D.D.

BY D. BERGER, D.D.

Few men as missionaries have ever undergone more thrilling experiences than has Dr. Young, the greater part of whose life has been spent among the Indians of British America in the far northwest. In his missionary tours he sometimes travels as far as seven hundred miles northward beyond the now remotest settlement of white people. Under his labors many hundreds of Indians have been converted to Christianity. Schools have been established for their children, and they have been started on the highway toward Christian civilization.

A few years ago I was shown an autograph letter to Dr. Young, written in an Indian language by an Indian chief of a far northwestern tribe. The letter was an earnest plea for missionaries to be sent to his village and for a teacher for their children. He said that they had about thirty children in his village, and he was very anxious to have a teacher for them. This Indian chief has a strange history. His tribe were not usually cannibals, but in times of extreme need they sometimes fell into this terrible practice.

Some years before Dr. Young visited his place, in a winter of unusual severity, and with great scarcity of game, and starvation among some of the tribes, this chief killed his own wife for food, and ate her as he would an animal. He has now heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and, with extreme horror for his past life, was trying to do all he could to lead other Indians to a Christian life. The story of Dr. Young's life and labors is told in a most interesting volume written by himself, entitled “By Canoe and Dog Train.”