CHAPTER V 



PROGRESS ORDINATION 



" Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the 

 work whereunto I have called them." 



WRITING under date, April 9, 1877, Mr. Peck 

 stated that the Eskimos who had up to 

 then heard the Gospel message numbered about 

 one hundred. 



It may be said that this is very small. Perhaps 

 so, if we compare Eskimo work with that among 

 the teeming millions of India or China or some other 

 mission field. But it is a large proportion of the 

 sparse population of seal hunters. And to be con 

 tinually teaching one hundred persons here and 

 there, besides learning their language and doing 

 literary work, is no mean record for the winter. 

 And soon more were expected to come to the 

 trading post. Before the break up of the ice at 

 least as many again would arrive, and these from 

 the distant shores on the north side of Hudson's 

 Strait. And thus we see that the number of those 



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