3. At Teller is a Norwegian mission; and at Cape Prince of Wales, only 30 mires from Asia, is .a Congregational mission. Here, in his own home, Mr. Thornton was shot by natives, and became the only (?) Alaskan martyr. . 4. At Kotzebue the Friends (Quak- ers) have a work; and at Point Hope is Dr. Driggs' Episcopal school, whose recipe for molasses cake insures attend- ance, deportment, and recitations, and has increased the first from 1 to 68. 5. Point Barrow is 300 miles farther north, and here some ' Presbyterians labor who get mail but once a year and sometimes miss that. Soon the "Reindeer Mall" will cut that year in half. The greatest hardships of the northern work are, long Arctic nights, want of companions, and silence. 6. The northern natives differ from Noting There was a woman who had a reputa- tion for simple faith that had reached to another woman who needed just such a faith, and who went to see her. "Are you," she asked, "the woman with the great faith?" "No," was the wise reply, "I am not the woman with the great faith, but I am the woman with the little faith in a great God." The late D. L. Moody, in speaking of the familiar passage, "My peace I leave with you," said, "Did you ever think that, when Christ was dying, he made a will? Perhaps you have thought that no one ever remembered you in a will, but if you are in the Kingdom, Christ remembered you in his. He willed his body to Joseph of Arimathea, his mother to John the son of Zebedee, and he willed his Spirit back to his Father. But to his disciples he left his peace (not ours, but his) and his joy. They say a man can't make a will now that lawyers can't break, and drive a four-in-hand right Items Worth
the Aleuts; are Eskimos (raw meat eaters), tall and muscular, physically superior to the Greenlanders. They wear furs, live underground, use dogs for travel. Horses cannot endure the cold, which sometimes sinks to 72° below. Even then the missionary makes his 25-mile trips. White men were fast taking food, clothing and fuel from the natives, but our government, through Dr. Sheldon Jackson, brought (before Rusisa 'withdrew the permit) 1280 reindeer, which now number 20,- 000 head, and are restoring to the natives all and more than they lost. 7. At Kotzebue, just north of the Arctic Circle, they say "A man who loses his temper is not a Jesus man any more." "They do not fret or worry, have always room for one more, share their last morsel, and love God with all their heart." through it, but I challenge them to break Christ's will. No judge or jury can set that aside." A fierce discussion was overheard on a railway train between an infidel and a Christian by the late Rev. Mr. S' of city, as to the divinity of Christ. As the minister was leaving the train the infidel angrily exclaimed, "Jesus Christ is only a prophet." 'Upon which Mr. S , looking fixedly at the speak- er, said. "And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the peo- ple," and passed out. A few months later he was laid in the grave. At the first service of his church after his death, a stranger asked permission to speak, and related the foregoing, adding in husky tones, "I was that infidel, and traveled many miles to tell your pastor that his words under God were the means of bringing to a lost soul peace and pardon. I deeply grieve that I am too late to thank him, but gladly give this tribute and rejoice that I am now a new man in Christ Jesus."
The ninth volume of that notable series in defence and con- firmation of the Truth, "The Fundamentals," is now on its way to the four corners of the earth. The story of this world-wide messenger is in our hands too late for this number, but we hope to tell it to you in December. It will interest you greatly. Pray for "The Fundamentals" that it may prosper in the thing whereto God's servants send it.
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