CHAPTER VIII 



GATHERING FRUIT UNGAVA 

 " My sheep hear My voice." 



THE last chapter closed with Mr. Peck's sum- 

 mary of a portion of his work. We were told 

 that there were sixty-four baptized adult Eskimos. 

 We wish to know more about these. What kind 

 of Christians were they ? Were they true followers 

 of Christ ? or were they what the scoffer some- 

 times calls " bread-and-butter " Christians ? 



Well, some have already been brought incidentally 

 into the narrative that has gone before. The lives 

 of two or three more may serve as examples to prove 

 that now, as 1,900 years ago, the Gospel is the power 

 of God unto salvation. 



"Apakutsuk was a man who came to the station 

 an utterly ignorant heathen. He was suffering 

 from some complaint which was gradually dragging 

 him down to the grave. He was naturally an 

 intelligent man, and soon learned to read, and very 

 readily grasped the meaning of Scripture truth. 



" The disease with which he was afflicted increased, 



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