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42 Snapshots from the North Pactfie.

son, and dictated that law you have now translated in my
ears. He said he would do so. He said he had done it.
He never changed. So shall it be as his heart desired.’
Certainly it was a noble testimony |!

“Last Sunday we had our harvest festival. The Indians
tried in vain to catch some salmon for decoration purposes.
They brought all kinds of foods from sea shore and _ river,
from forest and garden. Mr. and Mrs. Gurd superintended,
and I believe suggested the whole thing. But I was shocked
or thrilled through as I entered the church from the vestry.
A burst of brass-band music resounded through the church
(the largest in the province). It ceased as I knelt in the
chancel to say a silent prayer, and was not resumed. The
surprise sent the blood coursing along from my heart. It
was an innovation. Thad not been consulted. ‘ Why should
they,’ etc., etc. Then pleasure arose in my mind because
I knew they would not have done it if they had not thought
I should be pleased. Therefore I was pleased, and I am
bound to say that the suddenness of the musical outburst so
affected my heart that more of it than usual leaped out
and got into the service, and kept in to the very close! Mr.
Gurd preached in Zimshian in the afternoon, I in English
in the evening according to our custom, for the benefit of
the English and the English-speaking people. I saw three
Chinese there also. The Sunday before there were several
Japanese.

“Just before my last long journey a Japanese called and
asked to see me. I was occupied elsewhere, and was not
to be found. So he shyly told Miss Dickenson (the young
lady trained as a nurse who has come out to help us without
salary) that he loved Jesus; he belonged to Him as she did.
Then he took 3 dols., equal to 12s. 6d., from his pocket, and
gave them into her hand, saying, ‘I am a poor man. I
work to live. My money is few, but I give this to you to
help the work of God.’ Then he went away. He was
baptized by a missionary in Japan, and since then came
across the ocean for the same sort of reasons that induce

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