CHAPTER VI 



CONSOLIDATION OF WORK 



" Now, my God, let, I beseech Thee, Thine 

 eyes be open, and let Thine ears be attent unto 

 the prayer that is made in this place." 



WHEN the summer of 1879 was advanced, the 

 Rev. E. J. Peck was able to thank God and 

 take courage both on account of sympathetic co- 

 operation which he received in his work and for the 

 consolidation, so to speak, of his teaching. 



The co-operation came from the newly-awakened 

 earnestness in one of the officers of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company. He not only dedicated himself to 

 the service of God, but exercised all the influence 

 which he possessed in the same direction, both among 

 Eskimos and Indians. What an example of this 

 kind means to the missionary none but the mis- 

 sionary can tell. It is always one of the sorest 

 trials to find the heathen pointing the finger of 

 scorn at the un-Christlike lives of our fellow-country- 

 men, and telling the preacher to convert them first. 



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