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enter our meeting but the very conjuror who had prac- 

 tised his demoniac art. After I had gone on some 

 time he interrupted me by saying that we were both 

 conjurors, or, in other words, that there was no 

 difference between my preaching the Gospel and 

 his heathen incantations. I was led, therefore, 

 to speak to him very plainly and to point out, in no 

 unkind spirit, I hope, the real difference between 

 our objects. All the people present listened with 

 the greatest attention, and I felt sure that God by 

 His Holy Spirit was speaking to them." 



Again, later in the same month, the weather was 

 very stormy, and hunting was consequently a failure. 

 The heathen Eskimos, then, headed by their con- 

 jurors, organized a series of heathen abominations 

 in connection with their worship of Sedna (or Senna, 

 as the name seems to be pronounced in Cumberland 

 Sound). These ceremonies were to propitiate the 

 goddess so that expeditions for game might become 

 possible and successful. As has been mentioned in 

 a former chapter, some of their practices in this 

 worship are of a terribly immoral nature. So the 

 missionaries set their faces against them and opposed 

 them all in their power. This incensed many of 

 the people very greatly, and, as Mr. Peck expresses 

 it, " thinned out our stony-ground hearers." Many 

 stood firm under this trial, " but in others I was 

 sadly deceived. I cannot, however, but rejoice in 

 God. Satan is evidently stirring up his agents, and 



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