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60 In Great Waters

We bonuened to visit them for six years, receiving
two by letter into our Church and encouraging them
to keep the faith of their fathers even though living
in the “ends of the earth.’’ We also held service
by request at the lighthouse again. So Sunday
passed.

Monday morning at 3.30 a.m. we got up and
started off again, never stopping till we reached Alert
Bay, a five hours’ run.

During the six years that followed we had many
similar experiences, but never on any trip were the
troubles so severe or numerous as on that first one.

A Welcome Ministry. Prior to my visits there
were many homes in my parish that for three, five,
ten and a dozen years had never had a minister call,
or had never heard a spoken prayer. Before we left,
by God’s grace, scores of these homes welcomed us
and our Christian message. Men who had not been
in a church for fifteen years at least allowed us to
bend our knees in their shacks or boats and worship
the God and Father of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ.

Once we visited an inlet with over three hundred
miles of coast line, the first minister, sofar as we know,
ever toenter its beautifulwaters. In Hisname we have
worshiped God under very varied conditions, with
Indians on an open scow being towed away for the
fishing season, over the sides of our boat with people
in their row-boats or gas-boats, on booms of logs, out
on the mountain sides, beside hand-loggers with their