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holding classes for them in addition to our ordinary 

 evening meetings. My heart rejoices, and I feel 

 sure the hearts of many of God's praying ones will 

 rejoice to hear such news from our Arctic home." 



This large number of candidates for baptism 

 now rendered necessary some change in the arrange 

 ment of the meetings for instruction. Mr. Peck 

 rightly felt that these required something rather 

 special in the way of teaching. So on January 18 

 a separation took place. Mr. Bilby took the 

 ordinary congregation in the church and Mr. Peck 

 simultaneously held the class for the catechumens in 

 the Mission House or " the Manse " as he facetiously 

 calls it elsewhere. 



" I took," he says " the opening passage of our 

 baptismal service for adults and explained it. I 

 pointed out the force of our Lord's words, * Except 

 a man be born again,' etc., and told them how 

 needful it is for each one of them to call upon God 

 earnestly for the gift of the Holy Ghost. A little 

 prayer is being written out for them. It reads as 

 follows : ' O God, give me Thy Holy Spirit, that I 

 may truly repent of my sins, believe in Jesus Christ, 

 and be made a new creature for Jesus' sake, Amen.' ' 



And there was some satisfaction in teaching 

 people like these, for a few da}'s later, when Mr. 

 Peck was explaining a portion of the third chapter 

 of St. John's Gospel, he invited inquiry, and at the 

 same time asked them if they quite understood 



