BLIND JULIANA GOES TO CHURCH II) 



be in good time. She was crossing the bridge by 

 the side of the hospital, holding a very small boy by 

 the hand ; and as the pathetic couple passed the 

 blind woman with her gentle face, and the small fur- 

 clad Eskimo boy tugging at her outstretched hand 

 and I caught a glimpse of a stolid, chubby face, 

 the face of small Abia, the son of Matthew, I knew 

 that I was watching ' father ' lead his Aunt Juliana 

 to church. 



But there came a day when Matthew and his 

 family went away to the hunting-place, and small 

 Abia was carried off on the long dog-sledge, with 

 its load of bedding and crockery, to learn something 

 of the harpooning of seals or the catching of trout 

 and Juliana's guide was gone. 



And on the next Sunday blind Juliana was in 

 church as before 1 



Now there lived in our village a heathen woman. 

 She was the widow of a famous old chief of the 

 northern heathen, old Tuglavi of Killinek, and had 

 come south because her brother had wandered 

 southward long years before, and she hoped to find 

 a home with him. First one village and then another 

 she tried, but her brother was farther still ; and 

 when she reached us the heathen woman was weary 

 of travelling. She had no relatives among our folk ; 

 but in the hospitable way that the Eskimos have, 

 one of the families had offered her a home. So the 

 heathen woman settled for a time in the Christian 

 village of Okak. 



And it came about one day that she was in 



