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perhaps be disposed to blame me for remaining so 

 long in the open-air with only a wall of snow for 

 protection ; but there is no alternative. There is 

 not a fragment of wood or anything else here to 

 make a more suitable meeting-place ; but God has 

 not failed to strengthen me wonderfully to bear 

 the cold." 



But it must be admitted thai church of this 

 kind even has some disadvantage, for on May 27 

 it was snowing all day. 



" I could not, therefore, hold meetings in the open- 

 air, and so visited from house, to house. In one 

 dwelling I had the pleasure of meeting one of the 

 Eskimos who had heard the Gospel at Blacklead 

 Island during the winter. When I spoke to the 

 people he warmly seconded my remarks, and spoke 

 very kindly of our work." This is not a solitary 

 instance of the effect of work previously done. 

 For on another day, " I was cheered by meeting 

 two of the people who had heard much of Jesus 

 from one of the Blacklead Island Eskimos." . . . 

 " There are wonderful signs from time to time of 

 God's blessing and ready help, and one would be 

 faint-hearted indeed to doubt the power and pre- 

 sence of our God." 



The missionary had been taking his meals with 

 Mr. Noble's agent. But after some days Mr. Peck 

 writes : " Mr. Mutch left to-day, so I am, in a 

 measure, thrown on my own resources. Had tea 



