CHAPTER I 



THE EARLY LIFE OF E. J. PECK. 



" Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? Then 

 said I, Here am I ; send me." 



IN Csesarea, Cornelius and his household were 

 seeking the truth. In Joppa, God was pre- 

 paring Peter to impart the truth. Saul, on the 

 road to Damascus, was in great need of sympathy. 

 Inside Damascus, God was taking away the fears 

 and doubts of Ananias, so that he might give the 

 sympathy needed. 



Far away in Northern lands the Eskimos were 

 waiting for the Gospel, silently yet eloquently 

 making their claim on the Church of Christ. Thou- 

 sands of miles away God was preparing the mes- 

 senger who was to go to them carrying the tidings 

 of salvation. 



Edmund James Peck was the chosen instrument. 



He was not by any means the first missionary 

 from Christendom to the Eskimo race, for the 

 Moravians have laboured long with great devotion 



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