148 THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



stances of their lives. Sometimes they are converts 

 from heathenism ; sometimes the children of converts, 

 baptized in infancy, and growing up in the calm atmo- 

 sphere of the Spirit of God. We read in one place of 

 a little girl : "I spoke to her many times of the 

 Saviour's love, and I was constantly encouraged by 

 the beauty and consistency of her Christian life 

 when once she had yielded herself to Jesus." 



In another case we find a bright, intelligent man, 

 born Christian, who not only learns to read the little 

 books printed in the Syllabic character, but actually 

 masters the Moravian New Testament in Roman 

 type. We must not suppose that perfection is 

 attained all at once, that the missionary never has 

 to lament a fall on the part of one who has given 

 himself to God, or a yielding to old temptations 

 amid the surroundings of the new life. English 

 Christians after many hundreds of years of the 

 Gospel can still find flaws in their own morals. 

 Then it is hardly to be wondered at if the Eskimo 

 Christian of yesterday causes his teacher sometimes 

 moments of anxiety and hours of prayer. But 

 enough has been said to show that thus far work 

 among the Eskimos was full of joy and encourage- 

 ment, and spoke of the truth of the promise, ' I 

 will not leave you comfortless ; I will come unto 

 you." " I am with you always, even unto the end 

 of the world." 



And now, having given these individual introduc- 



