these my imperfect words to heart, which I write out of love to you, as a people related to us.  Your Jonathan’s words which he caused to be written to us, we have received to our joy; we have not forgotten them.  It is very pleasing to hear such accounts.  O that we all, as one people, might put in practice what our Saviour has commanded in his word, love him above all things, give him joy by our conduct, and never again cause him grief.  I write to encourage the heathen in your country, of whom there are still many, to be converted to the Creator.  Let them hear much of his incarnation, sufferings, and death, and relate it to them when you are with them.  Remember us also, and pray for us to our Saviour.  We will also pray for you, and when we do this we shall also reap those blessings which our Saviour has promised to those who pray to Him.—­I am your brother, TIMOTHY.”

Diligence in the improvement of the means of grace, particularly in not forsaking the assembling of themselves together, is another evidence of the reality and health of the Christian life in any community:  this awakening bore that stamp also of the genuineness of its nature; and from the frequency of their meetings, which were punctually and cheerfully attended by the people, some idea may be formed of the hungering and thirsting after divine things which marked the Esquimaux congregations.  The order of the different meetings of the congregation at Hopedale during winter—­and in the other settlements it was pretty much the same—­was as follows:—­Sunday.  Public service in the fore and afternoon.  In the morning the Litany was read.  The children then met.  After the afternoon’s service the communicants sung a liturgical hymn, or the candidates for the Lord’s supper held a meeting for instruction.—­Monday Evening.  All the baptized had a meeting, when a suitable discourse was delivered to them.  After a short pause, a singing-meeting was held.—­This is a service peculiar to the brethren’s church, in which some doctrinal subject, commonly that contained in the Scripture-text appointed for the day, is contemplated by singing verses or hymns relating to it, so as in their connection to form, as it were, a homily on the text, according to the words of the Apostle, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs.”—­Tuesday Evening:  A public meeting, with a discourse.—­Wednesday Morning.  The children had a meeting, the one Wednesday for all the children, and the next, for the baptized only.  On the evening, there was a public service, when a portion of the harmony of the four Evangelists was read and explained.—­Thursday Evening:  The same.—­Friday.  Both the baptized and the candidates for baptism met, where, after a discourse on the text, a hymn treating of the Saviour’s passion was sung.—­On Saturday there was no service in the church.  Besides these meetings, the believing Esquimaux had the worship of God regularly morning and evening in their own houses.  But the crowning sheaf in this harvest of mercy, was the permanence of the awakening; the impressions were lasting, not like a momentary blaze occasioned by some temporary excitement, but a pure and steady flame, which in a majority increased in brightness, till it was lost in glory.