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'2.70 Notes to Pages 93-94, 211theJewish sects (Acts 26,5), almost entirely negatively. Christcondemned especially their ostentation, their hypocrisy, theirbelief in salvation by works, their impenitence, and their lovelessness(Bryant 453 - 54). Vyvyan' s negative view of Whittaker' seffectiveness, which is not so forcefully registered in the book as inthe field note for 4July, is not the only one. Whittaker's approachand personality seem not to have conduced to his winning overInuvialuit or non-native northerners to the Christian message.One historical view sees Whittaker as "acerbic and inflexible"(Coates and Morrison 13I), while another could locate "very fewsympathetic accounts of Whittaker' s character" (Ingram andDobrowolsky 76). It may be, given her subsequent comments,that Vyvyan thought not only of Whittaker as the Pharisee, but alsoof Hester as the down-to-earth Publican.He had translated the hymn "Jerusalem the Golden" forthem, because he thought certain lines would appeal to theirirn.aginationHester was inspired in his choice of a hymn that imagined thefuture rather than described conditions in the world whichmight be foreign to the Inuit life experience. Written inEnglish in I851 and revised in I859, this hymn by the Rev J .M.Neale translates one written in Latin in II45 by Bernard ofCluny and based on The Revelation of StJ ohn the Divine2I, 18, "And the building of the wall of it was of jasper, and thecity was pure gold, like unto clear glass."Jerusalem the golden,With milk and honey blest,Beneath thy contemplationSink heart and voice opprest.I know not, 0 I know not,What joys await us there,What radiancy of glory,What bliss beyond compare.They stand, those halls ofSion,All jubilant with song,And bright with many an angel,And all the martyr throng;The Prince is ever in them,The daylight is serene,The pastures of the blessedAre decked in glorious sheen.There is the throne of David;And there, from care released,The shout of them that triumph,The song of them that feast;And they, who with their LeaderHave conquered in the fight,For ever and for everAre clad in robes of white.o sweet and blessed countryThe horne of God's elect!o sweet and blessed country,That eager hearts expect!Jesu, in mercy bring usTo that dear land of rest;Who art, with God the Father,And Spirit, ever blest.(Book no. 6'2.7)Canon Hester. We always longed to know his subsequenthistoryGiven her silence on the subject. it appears that Vyvyan did notlearn. from Hester or anyone else in Aklavik, about his memorableand herculean winter trips along the Arctic coast,carrying his ministry east and west from Aklavik, or his removalin 1927 to England and subsequent appointments toCroscombe Church, Somerset, in 1927; St Saviour's, Retford,Nottinghamshire, in I93I; Ashampstead. Berkshire, in 1934;and St Helen's, Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1944 (ZeaHey, "Edward"54)·Field Note for TllUrsd'!)l 1 JulyMade assignations with Mr. West (H B Co inspector)Born 23 March I896, Vernon Weir West was an employee ofthe HBC 1906-07, 19I4-I9, and I923-31. Until I927, whenhe was relocated to James Bay, West served the HBC innorthern Alberta and the western Arctic. As the field noteclarifies. he was the inspector for the western Arctic in I9'2.6("West"). Jean Godsell states that he was working for thecompetition, Lamson and Hubbard Company, in October1920, when she travelled down the Athabasca River in hiscompany; she found him "dour and taciturn" (22).