THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS this unknown land, amongst a people of a strange tongue and to whom their tongue was also entirely unknown. Not long after they had settled down to their task of getting acquainted with the people a baby girl was born to them and this event was followed by compli cations which brought on fever. Day by day the fever increased until it became very serious, there was no physician nearer than Flagstaff, eighty miles away and the missionary’s heart began to fail for fear of what might be com-
1059 “ Dear,” said he, “ what can you want with your clothes?” She replied, “ The Lord has touched me and cooled my body as with a refreshing breeze. I am healed. I am going to get up.” He who led them forth to where there was no physician and who Himself is the Great Physician had indeed touched her with healing, refreshing power and after she had dressed they could only sit and sing and praise God for hours. Truly, “ He giveth songs in the night.” After a few years this missionary
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ing to them. Bowing in prayer he besought God not to leave him alone in the wilderness to care for his little boy and the baby girl but to spare to him his wife and companion. Watching all night by the sick one and facing the worst his fears could conjure up he knelt beside that corn fodder bed and tried to say, “ Thy will be done.”» Only after the fifth time did he find grace to do this. Then with resigned spirit he went out into the night to get some water. Returning to the sick one he was startled to hear her say, “ Will, give me my clothes.”
family removed to Tolchaco, on the Little Colorado River, other workers taking their place at Tuba. Mr. John ston soon began to make known to the churches the great need of the Navajos and gradually through the course of twenty years the workers have come to the field, planting stations at the principal centers of population so that now the main strategic points are occu pied and each mission station has a territory about fifty miles square and a heathen constituency of about twenty- five hundred people. In 1864 the Navajo tribe numbered
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