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at Blacklead Island to sympathize with them to 

 some extent and to feel thankful that our lot is cast 

 in a pleasanter land. But let us see that our sym- 

 pathy is of a practical kind. If it is not, we shall 

 forget. If it is practical and influences our lives 

 by causing us to pray, to work and give gifts, it 

 will go on deepening and widening until it takes 

 in not merely the missionaries, but their Eskimos ; 

 not the Eskimos only, but barbarian and Scythian, 

 bond and free. We shall recognize more and more 

 that Mr. Peck's work is our work, that he is our 

 representative, that we are responsible. 



