bring me to him.  Jesus’ bleeding love is not cold toward those who are longing for him.’  So composed was she, that, observing the place dark, she desired them to ’trim the lamps, and make the room light and pleasant,’ and when the company present proposed to join in a hymn, but could not immediately remember a suitable one, she herself pointed out that hymn of praise, ‘Unto the Lamb of God,’ at page 92. of the Hymn book.  After it was ended, she fainted, and sunk down upon the bed; her sight and hearing failed, and she fell gently asleep in Jesus.”  During her short Christian career, she had become universally beloved; and the happy manner in which she left the world, made a deep impression upon the minds of the Esquimaux, “stronger,” say the missionaries, “than all our words could do.”

Previously to the administration of the Lord’s Supper, the missionaries usually have some conversation with the communicants, and at this time they were greatly refreshed by their simple, artless declarations.  One said, “I am struck with astonishment when I reflect that Jesus can, and does receive such abominable creatures as I am.  Indeed I am one of the worst, but his love is infinite.  He bled and died for me, that I might be saved.  Oh! how often have I crucified him afresh by my sins, and bid defiance to his mercy.  But now he has forgiven me, and granted me to hunger and thirst after him.  I pray to him continually that he would not forsake me, for I can do nothing of myself as I ought.  The holy communion is, every time that I enjoy it, more valuable to me, because I feel the power of my Saviour’s death, more than I can express in words.”  Another:  “I have now only one object, and that is Jesus; may I never more part with him.  Since I have had the favour to partake of his holy body and blood in the Sacrament, I continually cry to him to keep me under his direction, and to preserve me from the evil one, for I am indeed weak.  He alone is my strength and refuge.”

A peculiar blessing also attended the administration of the ordinance, not only to those who partook, but to those, likewise, who were permitted to be spectators.  At Nain, in the month of February, when that holy feast was celebrated, three Esquimaux, Joseph, Lydia, and Kitura, were present as candidates, and Sarah with a view to confirmation; the three women were so much affected that they cried and sobbed aloud, and after the service was concluded were so overpowered that they could hardly stand, and still continued weeping.  Being brought into the mission-house, when they recovered themselves they said they were so overcome by a sense of the presence of the Lord Jesus, that they knew not where they were nor what they did.  They wept on account of their unworthiness, and would now give their whole hearts to him who died for them.  On the following day Sarah came, and brought all the metal rings with which she had decorated her fingers after the Esquimaux fashion, and wished to part with them, and assigned as her reason, that she wished to delight herself in nothing now but Jesus.  Lydia, Louisa, and others followed, and brought their pearl ornaments to dispose of, as they thought it improper for Christian women to be gaudily decked out in costly pearls; and this they did spontaneously, without being spoken to by the missionaries, who never begin with finding fault with the dress or ornaments of inquirers.