and outrageous practices, they would mingle their tears of joy with us.  We now hear backsliders as well as heathen, those who have long heard, but never believed in the gospel, speaking the same language as those who have never, till now, heard of a Saviour; all confess themselves most vile and unworthy, weep over their sins, and cry for mercy through the atonement of Jesus.  Thus, in Labrador also, the word of the cross is the power of God unto salvation.  We regard this gracious work of the Saviour, as the blossoming of a precious plant, which has been long germinating in the earth, and on whose growth we have been waiting with the utmost anxiety;—­now that it has at last sprung up, and is bearing beautiful flowers, may He cause it to prosper and bring forth fruit unto eternal life!”

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote H:  The Esquimaux always receive a new name at baptism, and most of them have such an abhorrence at the recollection of their early life as heathens, that it sickens them when any one calls them by their old Esquimaux names.  They regard the days past, in which they fulfilled the lusts of the flesh, as almost literally a state of death.]

CHAPTER VI.

 Mutual affection of the Christian Esquimaux and
   Greenlanders—­their correspondence—­letter from Timothy, a
   baptized Greenlander.—­Delight of the Esquimaux in religious
   exercises.—­Order of the congregations—­distressing events,
   apostasy of Kapik—­awful end of Jacob—­peaceful death of
   believers—­Judith, Joanna.—­Revival among the communicants.—­A
   feast by a Christian brother, to the Esquimaux.—­Winter
   arrangements.—­Childrens’ meetings—­schools.—­The brethren’s
   settlements contrasted with the heathen.—­Progress of religion
   at the different stations.—­Books printed in the Esquimaux
   language.—­Number of the settled Esquimaux.—­Epidemic at
   Nain—­its consequences.—­General view of the mission.

Love to all the members of the body of Christ, is the visible token of the vitality and truth of a Christian profession; and as it rises or falls, the progress of an individual or a community waxes or wanes.  At this period, the converted Esquimaux felt a lively interest, not only in their countrymen, but likewise in their fellow-Christians in Greenland; the affection was reciprocal, and though they had never seen each other in the flesh, they rejoiced over each other’s welfare, and communicated their feelings in affectionate letters.  Jonathan had dictated an epistle to the baptized Greenlanders, in 1799; the annexed was from the Christian Greenlander, Timothy, an assistant at Lichtenfels, in return.  “My beloved, ye who live just opposite us, on the other side of the great water!—­You have the same mode of living that we have; you go out in your kaiaks as we do; you have the same method of procuring your