Greenlanders, as has been frequently shewn in the course of the preceding history, forsook all these practices; for the Scripture says, that a good man "guides his affairs with discretion;" and the grace of God, that bringeth salvation, appeared to these savage people, teaching them to "deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live righteously, soberly, and godly in this present world."

Were all who profess the name of Jesus thus to seek to glorify his name, by a quiet and godly conscientiousness in the discharge of the various duties of their several stations, how would their conduct put to silence the ignorance of foolish men! But, alas, how many live in the habitual neglect of these things, persuading themselves that they are ready to do any great service to which the Lord may call them, while living in the habitual violation of the plainest duties!

But this industrious attention to relative duties, which we have mentioned as one of the evidences, in the character and conduct of Kainaek, that he had passed from death unto life, must be distinguished from that engrossing care with which many seek for a provision for their families the well-regulated mind will bestow upon these inferior things a measure of thought proportioned to their insignificance, when contrasted with the things of eternity. A vessel, into which much chaff has been loosely thrown, may still be filled with water; and so the mind, which admits ideas about these inferior things, may still be filled with the element of spirituality: but the Spirit of God alone can teach a man truly to obey the precept, "not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,"-to take due precaution to provide for the wants of those whom God has placed in a state of dependence upon him, and yet to be "careful for nothing." This Kainaek had learned. How pleasing to the pious mind, to contemplate this poor Greenlander in his kayak, toiling to snatch a precarious subsistence from the ocean! While his hand plies the oar or casts the harpoon, his heart meditates upon the love of his Incarnate Creator; with the eye of faith, he sees him walking upon the troubled waters; with the ear of faith, he hears him saying, "Be of good cheer, it is I;

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be not afraid;" and, in the anticipation of that happy day, when he shall behold his Redeemer face to face, when sorrow and sighing shall flee away, and when no root of bitterness shall ever spring up to trouble the believer's perfect peace, the hardships of his present lot are forgotten.*

But the time when Kainaek was about to realize all these hopes was not distant: about three years after his baptism, he was hastily summoned from time to eternity, by a violent fever with which he was seized, when among his family in the islands. We are furnished with no particulars of his last moments, nor do we need them. He had given abundant evidence of his being a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ,-that he had committed himself in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator, to Him who is presented to our faith as having the keys of death and the invisible world, without whose permission and appointment not one of those many doors, by which man goes out from this state of being, can be opened.

Oh! that men would consider, that He who thus holds the "keys of death and hell," determining the time and manner of our exit from this world, has also eyes like a flame of fire: with these he observes the thoughts of every heart, and with a most indulgent patience, strikingly exemplified in the subject of this memoir, gives space for repentance, noting down every abuse of such opportunities (see Rev. ii. 21). Did secure sinners consider that Christ, with eyes of flame, and the keys of death and Hades in his hand, beholds them, would they dare still to trifle? Did they realize

* That this is no fanciful description, will appear from the following testimony of a converted Greenlander: "I have placed my confidence in our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost has often reminded me of him, and helped me to a vital and inward happiness. When he draws near to my heart, and sometimes in a particularly perceptible manner, I fall prostrate before him, and worship him. I have him, and will not let him go. I often think: Oh! how shall we rejoice, when we shall ever be together with him, and shall see him as he is! When I am alone, or when I row in my kayak, I often pray and weep before him, and tell him the thoughts of my heart."

In the original, "Hades, or the invisible world."

his presence in this posture, standing over them in all their vain dissipations, idle vanities, bold adventures, insolent attempts against his laws and government, presumptuous affronts of his high authority; yea, or even in their drowsy slumberings, their lingering delays, their neglects of offered grace-did they consider what notice He takes of the state of their hearts under every sermon which they hear, and in every prayer which they offer-did careless sinners consider and believe this, in what agonies would they be what pangs of trembling would they feel within themselves, lest the key of death should suddenly turn, and the door through which they must pass to their eternal and unchanging state should be opened, before they had accepted the mercy which is freely offered in the gospel!

ANNALS OF A GREENLAND FAMILY.

Opposition of the Angekoks to the Gospel-Arbalik, a disciple of an Angekok, is awakened by the preaching of the Missionaries -Also the Greenland woman Pussimek-Her removal to New Herrnhuth-Her mother and sister-Pussimek advances in the knowledge of God-Is baptized, and named Sarah-Her labours in the congregation-Death of her mother-Removal of her sister Issek to New Herrnhuth-Her conversion and baptismBaptism of Arbalik-Removes with his mother to New Herrnhuth-Family arrangements-Arbalik's labours in the Gospel -Death of his mother-Sarah's zeal- Her fall and repentance -Her marriage with Arbalik-Progress of Issek-Voyage of the Greenland family to Europe-Their arrival at HerrnhuthDeath of Sarah and Arbalik-Voyage to London and America -Visit to the congregations-converted Indians-Return to Greenland-Issek induces the single sisters to live togetherHer sickness-Death-Conclusion.

MANKIND, in general, feel their inability to arrive at the knowledge of God and a future state, by the exercise of their own reason, and hence we find that every heathen nation is guided either by some pretended revelation, or by the counsels of persons assuming the privilege of a familiar intercourse with the world of spirits, and these supposed means of knowledge, are commonly the greatest obstacles to the entrance of divine truth, as they pre-occupy the avenue through which its light should enter, and therefore, that remarkable exclamation of our blessed Lord may be applied to nations, not less than to individuals. "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness."

The heathen Greenlanders had submitted their understandings to guidance of the latter description: in the person of their Angekoks, (see page 23) whom the Missionaries found to be the most determined opponents

of the Gospel, the success of which would prove destructive to their credit and interest.

So systematic was the opposition of these impostors to the Gospel, that, when they perceived the growing credit of the Missionaries among the people, they even came to hear their preaching, in order that the welldisposed Greenlanders might entertain a good opinion of them, as of people who also loved what is good, and that they might acquire so much knowledge as would enable them to talk plausibly to the gaping crowd, and be reputed as wise as the Missionaries.

These Angekoks have generally some pupils selected from the youth of Greenland, whom they instruct in all the secrets of their art, and under such tuition, Arbalik, one of the Greenlanders, whose life we propose to set before the reader, passed his earlier days; his mind, at a time when it was most susceptible of impression, had been imbued with deep hatred of the Gospel; he was the member of a confederacy, whose credit, and interest, and existence, depended upon the success of their opposition to the Missionaries; nay, more, he was a distinguished member of the diabolical brotherhood, an aspirant after the knowledge of the depths of Satan, a candidate for the highest place among his emissaries,for Arbalik, writes Mr. Crantz, “was to have learned the art of conjuring people to death." In the time of the awakening which took place in the year 1739, this poor youth heard the gospel; he tasted the sweetness of the love of Jesus-he would have surrendered himself to him, but the chains which Satan had bound around him held him fast, and at length the silken cords of the Redeemer's love became painful to him; he would gladly have disengaged himself from them, but an invisible hand bad wound them around his heart, and held them fast, until at length he was extricated from the snares of the enemy, and his happy heart could testify that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth.

But we must for the present leave Arbalik, to introduce our reader to the Greenland woman, Pussimek, whose life we are also to relate in these pages.

The Missionaries not only preached the gospel in their own chapel, and wherever they found any con