224 Inasmuch 



The same authority says of the occupation of 

 the corresponding station on the West coast: 

 &quot;Churchill is not a place which any European 

 would choose as home if duty did not call him 

 there.&quot; &quot; Constant and regular attendance,&quot; 



house Lo/t &quot; wr ites the missionary the Rev. J. Lofthouse, 

 &quot;at all services, is some proof of a desire to serve 

 Christ at Churchill, for I am quite sure that there 

 are many real Christians in England whose place 

 in the House of God would often be vacant if 

 they had such a Church as we had last winter. 

 It was no uncommon thing to see minister and con 

 gregation covered with snow, and often have I gone 

 through the full service with the thermometer 

 a long way below freezing point, yet all were as 

 reverent and devout as if in a comfortable English 

 Church. Thank God, we have now got our new 

 Church opened and in use, so that I hope we may 

 escape rain and storm, though to get the Church 

 fairly warm, with the thermometer 50 below 

 zero, requires good fires and good wood; the 

 latter is an impossibility to get at Churchill.&quot; 



Horden 8 Last The days when &quot;the strong men shall bow 

 themselves&quot; were drawing on for John Horden. 

 &quot;They tell me,&quot; he wrote, &quot;that for the future, 

 winter travelling must not be indulged in.&quot; 

 And then he adds: &quot;we must bow to the inevit 

 able; we cannot always be young; the halting 

 step and the grey head will come, why should we 

 dread their approach, when we know that if the 

 earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we 



