286 THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



Sound was to terminate by his starting for England 

 on October 9. 1899, and it was not till his third 

 sojourn was in progress that many sheaves were 

 gathered in. His last note on this subject was 

 written some weeks before embarking. " Many 

 of the people," he writes, " left the station to-day. 

 They nearly all came to see us before they left. 

 Some seemed evidently sorry that I should be 

 going home this year. They remarked that the 

 words they had heard were good and true, and that 

 they were very glad to have heard them. Certainly 

 our work among women and children gives much 

 encouragement." 



The time of refreshing was certain to come, 

 and the missionaries could wait in faith. When 

 it did come, taking a retrospect of the period 

 now under review, Mr. Peck could sum upt hus : 

 *' When I went home in 1896 I took with me the 

 four gospels in Eskimo. These were printed by the 

 Bible Society. When I returned to Blacklead Island 

 in the following year several of the people learned 

 to read these precious pages. Following our usual 

 plan of work, services were held night after night 

 in our little church, and each gospel was expounded 

 from beginning to end. Now the people began to 

 realize the wonderful character of Jesus the Son 

 of God. A picture of moral power, love and mercy 

 stood out before them. Nothing in their old tradi 

 tions or religious ideas could equal the words of 



