CHAPTER X 



CHANGED PLANS HOME 



" I will call them my people which were 

 not my people, and her beloved which was 

 not beloved." 



THE period to which we have very briefly 

 alluded in the latter portion of the last chapter 

 was one of distinct progress and hopefulness. About 

 the close of it Mr. Peck mentions the baptism of 

 two adult Eskimos, one of whom had learned to 

 read with almost no help in the way of teaching. 

 He also speaks of the triumphant death of another 

 convert. In the hour of supreme trial he turned 

 to his sorrowing relations and told them not to 

 weep as he was going to live with Jesus. 



There were, however, two matters which caused 

 some temporary check to the work and necessitated 

 a certain re-adjustment of the Mission machinery. 

 The first was that the Eskimos had been suffering 

 great losses through their dogs dying. As a con- 

 sequence they were unable to travel south to the 



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