“When round the great white throne all nations stand,
    When Jew and Gentile meet at God’s right hand,
    When thousand times ten thousand raise the strain—­
    ‘Worthy the Lamb that once for us was slain!’
    When the bright Seraphim with joy prolong
    Through all eternity that thrilling song—­
    The heathen’s universal jubilee,
    A music sweet, O Saviour Christ, to Thee—­
    Say, ’mid those happy strains, will not one note,—­
    Sung by a hapless nation once remote,
    But now led Home by tender cords of love,
    Rise clear through those majestic courts above? 
    Yes! from amid the tuneful, white-robed choirs,
    Hymning Jehovah’s praise on golden lyres,
    One Hallelujah shall for evermore
    Tell of the Saviour’s love to LABRADOR.”

[Illustration]

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G. NORMAN & SON, PRINTERS, HART STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote C:  For those who may be interested to know what hymns were chosen, and what tunes were sung (without accompaniment), by the natives on this occasion, I will append the numbers in our new English Hymn Book, as far it contains their selection, 646, 788, 755, 834, and 1135.  The melodies included our Tunes 132, 26, 69, 205, 166, and 146.]

[Footnote D:  Labrador, a Poem in three parts, written to commemorate the centenary of the Moravian Labrador Mission, by B. TRAPP ELLIS.]

THE “HARMONY.”

Captain:  HENRY LINKLATER.

Length (Extreme)  120     ft. 
Breadth            27-1/2  "
Depth              15      "  4 in. 
Length of Mast     87      "
Tonnage           251 tons.

Launched, April 24th, 1861.

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The average duration of the outward voyage with the present vessel has been 41-1/4 days, including a short stay at Stromness in the Orkneys.  The homeward voyage has been accomplished on an average in 23 days, including the coarse up channel to the West India Dock.  The whole voyage, including the stay on the coast and visit to six stations there, has averaged 117-3/4 days.

THE TEMPERATURE OF LABRADOR.

At Hopedale, the most southerly of our mission stations, thermometrical observations during several years give + 86 deg.  Fahrenheit as the greatest heat (July 26, 1871), -104 deg., or 72 deg. below freezing point, Fahrenheit, as the greatest cold (February 2nd, 1873).  The average temperature for the year is -5 deg.  F. For four years the month of July was the only one in which there was not a fall of snow.  The average temperature of Edinburgh, which lies in about the same degree of latitude as Hopedale, is + 47 deg.  F. At the Hospice of St. Bernard in the Alps, which is situated at an elevation of 7192 feet above the level of the sea, the average temperature for the year is not quite -3 deg.  F. There winter and spring are much less cold, summer and autumn much less warm than in Labrador.