Siksigak, so soon as his companion was gone, broke out, and like one in despair, paced the room with quick and hurried steps, tearing his clothes and his hair, and crying aloud, “O! unhappy man!  I am so wicked!  I am lost!  I am lost!” Kohlmeister now asked him affectionately who told him that he was so wicked and must be lost?  Siksigak related what had taken place at his mother’s, and how her words had pierced him; and with much compunction ingenuously confessed the abominations of which he had been guilty, and the sins in which he had still intended to indulge.  The missionary then asked him, whether he sincerely resolved to amend his life? and being answered in the affirmative, told him, he had put away his wife, that was a great sin, wholly contrary to the will of God; and if he would be delivered from his present agony, he must, in the first place, openly take her back.  “That,” cried out Siksigak, “I will gladly do; my wife is good, but I am bad! very bad!” Immediately he ran to his mother and told her all; and with such humility, that his countenance indicated the change that had taken place in his mind, and the begun answer to her prayer.  They then proceeded together to his wife, of whom he begged forgiveness for all the ill usage she had received from him, and promised, by the assistance of God, never more to give her cause to complain, if she would consent to come and live again with him.  Agreeably surprised at so sudden and unlooked for a change, she cheerfully and readily agreed to return.  Siksigak having given this proof of his sincerity, went to the missionary—­for still he had got no rest to his soul; and he preached to him the Saviour who receiveth sinners, and called upon him to turn to Jesus and pray to him, though he could say nothing else but, “Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy upon me!” He followed this counsel, and that same night was delivered from all his distress, and could believe that his sins were forgiven.

Kapik had spent the same night restless and almost hopeless—­convinced that he deserved, and afraid that he would be everlastingly lost.  Ere the morning had scarcely broken he came to Kohlmeister, who presented to him the same Saviour and Redeemer, who would not reject him, and in whom he shortly found peace to his soul.

These two now joyfully thanked and praised God their Saviour, who had redeemed them; and, filled with life and spirit, set out on their return to Nain, where they testified with boldness of what they had heard, seen, and experienced at Hopedale.  They related to the missionaries with an ingenuousness and sincerity, which the latter say they had never before known among Esquimaux, how the Almighty power of Jesus had awakened them, by giving them a proper sense of the wickedness of their ways, and caused them to resolve to turn to Him in truth as their Saviour.  Now they began earnestly to declare to their countrymen the necessity of a thorough conversion of heart, representing how