344 THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



if I could not come back next year, but I told them 

 that I could not order my own movements. God, 

 I said, moved His servants from place to place, 

 besides which I was under orders from the 

 ' believers at home,' and that I would have to go 

 a long way in a ship, and (using an Eskimo idiom) 

 ' end several moons ' before I could hope to see 

 their faces again. Poor creatures ! Most gladly 

 will I see them again if the Lord so direct. I set to 

 work to teach them all I could. The captain kindly 

 got a place rigged up between decks. Here we 

 gathered together. I went over some of the founda- 

 tion facts, such as the being and attributes of God, 

 the power and goodness of God shown in His works, 

 manifest to our very senses. I naturally passed on as 

 soon as possible to man's fallen state, how he fell 

 from his high estate, and the wonderful means 

 provided for his recovery and safety through the 

 all-sufficient work of Jesus, and the sanctifying 

 power of God the Holy Ghost. All this has to be 

 taught little by little. These people cannot grasp 

 or digest much at one time, and their ideas of many 

 objects familiar to ourselves are a complete blank. 

 These facts will show the difficulties of this work. 

 What we need along this coast, even as at Blacklead 

 Island, is a station. How such a station can be 

 established is another question. But it can be done 

 through the power of our God. If some 60,000 

 has been found to fit out the Discovery, and send 



