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important and promising field of labor. We ourselves were 

 willing to remain and work on, to the best of our ability." 



What joy attended the return of the one considered lost ! 

 Says Brother Weber in his diary for February 14, 1889: 



" When we least expect it, the Lord answers our prayers. 

 This morning, about eleven o'clock, we saw two large teams 

 come around the island. But we had so completely given 

 tip Brother Kilbuck, that I did not think of him. When 

 I saw them, some of the boys said, " Who is that ? Let's 

 get the glass." Pretty soon they said they believed it was 

 Brother Kilbuck. Then we all looked ; but were afraid to 

 say it was he, for fear we should be disappointed. 



Mr. Lind was here. He said it was he. Pretty soon he 

 waved his hand, and then we knew it was he ; and words 

 can not express the joy that we felt. Mr. Lind and I ran 

 down to meet him. Mrs. Kilbuck and the children were 

 standing by the house, waiting. And it just seemed as if 

 Mr. Kilbuck had risen from the dead. I do not believe 

 we should have felt happier if he had." 



And the happiness of return was celebrated in a pecu- 

 liarly blessed way, on the 24th of the month, by the addi- 

 tion of ten of the scholars and four adults to the Church. 

 The former, in the presence of a large number of their 

 heathen relatives, boldly came forward and confessed their 

 faith in Jesus. 



The visit to Carmel had proved a very opportune one. 

 The opposition of the Greek priest had thus far been most 

 trying. On Thanksgiving Day a special dinner had been 

 prepared for the scholars; but all except those who boarded 

 in the Mission-house were ordered away by this spiritual 

 tyrant. Again, at Christmas, the projected entertainment 

 was rendered a comparative failure by similar manceuvers. 

 Besides the comfort of sympathy at such a time, the ability 

 ■of Brother Kilbuck to speak the Eskimo was a marvel and 

 a stimulus to emulation. 



But the memorable visit to Carmel served yet another 

 purpose. It made it possible to send tidings of the Winter 

 m letters by the kind offices of Lord Lonsdale, an English 

 nobleman who was about to close an adventurous tour in 

 Arctic regions, which were received at Bethlehem, Pa., in 



