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lected. The word of the gospel was eventually 

 propagated by the Missionaries through a vast 

 extent of country, and its glad tidings spread 

 still farther by the savages themselves, so that 

 a numerous company of Greenlanders have 

 been gathered to Jesus Christ by the preaching 

 of his word- — moulded into a spiritual congre- 

 gation by the operation of the Holy Ghost 

 (says the above historian,) and furnished with 

 such provisions for its good discipline, both 

 within and without, that amidst all defects, it 

 might in truth be called a living, flourishing, 

 fruit-bearing plant of the heavenly Fathers 

 planting. 



Such an example of success in Missionary 

 exertions, in the frozen and uncultivated regions 

 of Greenland and of Labrador, as the United 

 Brethren have set, holds out every encourage- 

 ment to hope that a mission would succeed 

 among the Esquimaux at Hudson's Bay. They 

 resemble the Greenlanders in their aspect, 

 dress, and mode of living ; and speaking the 

 same language, it would greatly aid the mission 

 to them, if one or two Christian natives could 

 be obtained and prevailed upon to join it from 

 the coast of Greenland. They are shouting 

 from their native rocks for instruction, and have 

 appealed to the Christian sympathy and bene- 



