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Each individual missionary has learned and is expert in the 

 medical profession, or in some trade likely to be useful to 

 his converts. Dr. Jannasch built the church and mission- 

 house at Makkovik, and the Eskimo workmen who assisted 

 him have since turned their attention to their own dwell- 

 ings. Other missionaries build boats ; others, again, 

 understand the theory and practice of gaining their living 

 from the sea ; and so the work goes on. All are practical 

 men, who labour shoulder to shoulder with their people, 

 and who in this manner establish a mental leadership which 

 is bracing and effective. On the spiritual side of the ques- 

 tion, I believe that a large proportion of the children of 

 missionaries return to the mission-field to follow in their 

 fathers' steps. Certainly no financial inducements are 

 offered, for in Labrador, at any rate, the salaries of these 

 devoted men range from 9 to 23 a year. Often they pass 

 ten or even twenty years without returning to Europe, and 

 when they do come it is but for a short time, between the 

 visits of the Harmony, the mission ship which keeps up 

 the yearly communication between England and the coast 

 of Labrador. It is pleasant to think that the Church of 

 England has for many years aided the Moravians by means 

 of an affiliated society. One thing at least is unquestion- 

 able that every sovereign which the people of England 

 and America and Germany subscribe towards the Moravian 

 Church is made to do the work of two or three times that 

 sum by the single-heartedness and the capacity with which 

 it is administered. 



The Moravians in Labrador have experienced one or 

 two strange difficulties in their task. Of these the smallest 

 is making the Old Testament, with its wealth of pastoral 

 detail, understandable to the Eskimo, not one of whom 

 has ever seen a horse. Sheep and cattle they cannot 

 realise or conceive of, for there are no domesticated ani- 

 mals save dogs in that portion of the peninsula. They 



