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Bisho John a mile diocese A ministry in the Arctic WEEKEND EXTRA Friday February Pg Herald StairWriier Missionary lie word conju re up thai picture a man of Cod wooden cross gainst a background of palm tree Gating wideeyed about him are darkskinned pag an Bishop John of Ibe Anglican Church Is mission ary but ha doesnt a golden tan He a Canadian missionary who year in the Arctic among Eskimos and Indian Bishop was at St Georges Anglican Church Feb speaking to a crowd of Including local Anglican ministers about life and work in the Arctic Bishop of the large Anglic an in Canada by virtue of lu phytic size his diocese Is two and threequarter million square mile In area However In all that grand spread of pace there are only inhabitant The Arctic diocese extends Into the Yukon run scrota the parallel through Labrador and north- em Quebec OLD WAY Nov living in Yellowknlfe Bishop Sperry 19 yean living In nearby Coppermine The Coppermine people have the unique experience of he last to be reached by civilisation and religion he laid In our congregation were people who grew up without any knowledge of the southern culture They grew up with bowl and arrows and knew the old way of life bishop Sperry theres a lot of negative talk about what the church and modern civiliz ation hat done to the native people He admitted every thing haint been and tome bad mistakes have been made but he protested against the belief that before mission aries came to the north the life of the native wonderful and some kind of paradise Its a big mistake Bishop said Before the arrived wo the lot of every tribal group in Canada except for the salmon fishers of the west coast BACK UP The Eskimo name of placet In the north back up hi point He translated some of them Island where everybody starved to death the place or pinched cheeks To these names the Quebec government for one added religious titles without taking what tbe Eskimo place name meant Bishop said So we have Our Lady of starvation Our Lady the Intestinal worm and Our Lady of the place we had to eat human flesh be said The life of the native the north based on an uncertain ty which permeate their lan guage said the bishop who speaks one Eskimo dialect fluently and is familiar with many others The uncertainty is expressed In individual words like if I am alive if we eat if we do not die As a mission Bishop has experienced many difficulties in transferring the values and belief of the ChrUlion community to the He said the biblical story of Genesis doesnt go down too easily with the Eskimos be cause they believe animals have guardian spirits who rule the world who have to be appeased by their shaman In their thinking mankind the lowest level of life and animals have dominion over man the reverse of Genesis ALL ACCEPTED Bishop said It was Incredible bow the Gospel was accepted at ill by them They near There a man who bis a son who has sheep he said Whats a sheep they aak We tried It with a baby seal but that didnt work because you cant harvest them The bishop said agricultural symbols In the New Testament didnt mean a thing to the Telling the Eskimos they needed to approach God through sacrifice meant noth ing to them either Theres no suggestion of sacrifice In their culture Bishop said Then when you say This man died tied to a cross that doesnt mean a thing either because they dont have any trees he said All of It Is incomprehensible Theres no word for love in any of the Eskimo dialects and no word gets anywhere near It he said posing a greater challenge to spreading the Christian faith The miss ionaries had to Invent the word The word means pity in one dialect and a thing of pleasure In another FIRST WENT The missionaries who first went showed something of Gods love and I believe thats element that led the Eski mos to accept the gospel he Bishop Sperry told the tale an early missionary who was having a hard time learning Eskimo language He ask ed what was going on when a team of dogs was being Ted hoping to learn the word for joy and pleasure explained the bishop When he came to use the word he discovered he was relating how when the discipl es first saw the Lord they all wagged their tails laughed bishop You have to get the feel or dynamic Another difficult ies in communicating occurred when preaching about the Roman King Herod What did Jesus mean when he said tell that fox Herod Bishop said Was it a red ox a silver cor era blue fox And furthermore foxes are considered cute by some Eskimos totally distorting the meaning Intended in the Bible The wolverine was soon chosen to replace the fox for that line because it meant and cunning to the people who would be hearing the story Fire storms have nc timetable They hit at any time of day or night any time of year and very often affect those who can least afford it GEORGETOWN WATERBEDS Mountalnvlaw Rd Just South RCA CablaRaady Tuning Entry new modal RCA multi- brand cblfMdy tuning That main tuning ice to a many a All chin rials tun 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military defence agencies because the Russians were felt to be threatening The bishop said criticism of the government by Mr Mowat brought nursing stations and English schools to the Arctic in the talc 1950s Welfare checks took away from the native peoples dependence on church has gradually lost its influence In the param edical field It no longer runs the schools and its losing its paternalistic mission he said However the church has not been crushed e said natives have taken a threeyear course and become ordained ministers of the church with four others studying to do so The greatest need of the Arctic diocese however is personnel followed closely by mortcj said the bishop There are si settlements scried by the Anglican mis sionaries with 30 active pans- WINTERTAINMENT 81 yilam 14 PORTABLE COLOUR TV ottuni from 95 J UmlnrZDynrn SOLID STATE opiuodit COLOUR TV hmiMPi Of with converter Come See Our VCRs Hitachi Toshiba Zenith BRAMPTON COLOUR SOUND NELSON ST H FOBERT REAL ESTATE LIMITED 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